This is a birthday gift that keeps on giving – best kind.
Not a plastic toy that will gather dust on a shelf or get lost under the bed. Works for both boys and girls. Good for solo activity or with a friend, sibling or parent. A great rainy-day activity.
Puzzles are FUN, but they’re way more than that. They’re fun that teaches kids to use their brain, to stretch their thinking, to think outside the box. And learning that all that thinking CAN BE FUN is the best lesson of all.
All these benefits at a price well within the normal “birthday present” price range (Put your mouse over the image to see Amazon’s sales price).
Here’s the product description from Amazon:
“About the original 1000 PlayThinks,Will Shortz of The New York Times said it best: “The most wide-ranging, visually appealing, entertaining, gigantic collection of brainteasers since Sam Loyd’s Cyclopedia of Puzzles almost a century ago.” Inside The Big Book of Brain Games, you will find an obsessive collection of 1,000 challenges, puzzles, riddles, illusions—originals as well as must-do classics—it’s like salted peanuts for the brain. With jampacked pages and a full-color illustration for each entry, the book, opened anywhere, is a call to action. (And it’s guaranteed to make you smarter.) Twelve basic categories include Geometry, Patterns, Numbers, Logic and Probability, and Perception. An easy-to-read key at the top of each game ranks its difficulty on a scale of 1 to 10, while indices in the back cross-reference the puzzles. (You’ll find the answers back there, too.)”
This gift has such universal appeal, I’d be tempted to order one or two and keep them on the top shelf for the next birthday party present emergency. Or the next rainy day.
We’ll be on the lookout for good birthday gifts for kids- ones they’ll actually play with and use. You can find our finds for good kids birthday gifts on our website.
[DISCLOSURE: If you purchase this great book through any of the links on this page, I make a commission from Amazon. Seems reasonable to me…..]
