Does your child enjoy solving puzzles? This creative collection of free printable Sudoku for Kids provides a great cutting, pasting and thinking experience for children from 3 years of age. Pictures of animals, vehicles, fruits, vegetables, summer and school items, and others are ready to be enjoyed by the little minds and hands.
What is Sudoku?
Sudoku is a logic-based Japanese number puzzle that has become a popular game in the 21st century all over the world. It is comprised of a grid which is to be filled with numbers in a logical sequence. Many variations to the original number Sudoku have been created over the years, for example, picture Sudoku.
Why should children play Sudoku?
There are many benefits for your children to play Sudoku at every age. On one hand it keeps them peacefully occupied and, on another hand, there are many more benefits to this activity. For example:
- Sudoku teaches critical thinking and problem solving skills.
- Sudoku teaches to quickly memorize patterns, numbers, etc. and improves the overall memory.
- Sudoku encourages attention to detail.
- Sudoku advances patience and perseverance.
- Sudoku provides screen-free fun activities.
What will you discover in this Sudoku for Kids?
Sudoku for Kids will give your child 40 printable pages both black and white and in full color. In addition to the benefits mentioned above, it involves cutting and pasting, which are two of the essential activities for both preschool and kindergarten children to master. Cutting helps to build up muscles in the little hand which is very important for future writing. Pasting then provides necessary exercise for development of fine motor skills.
How to play Sudoku for Kids?
- Cut the page on the dotted lines.
- Cut the separated strip into individual pictures.
- Find the right spot for each cut-out animal in the grid and paste it.
Clue: Each animal must be found in each row and each column only once (see the example below).
Ideas how to use Sudoku for Kids:
- Simply print your favorite page/pages and let your child have fun.
- You can have your child color some of the pictures in the grid.
- Print an entire Sudoku for Kids book, including the cover page, by either stapling the pages together of filing the final pages into a binder with sleeves.
