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Missing Number Puzzle

April 12, 2016 by Emma Gadsby 5 Comments

This weeks #toolsforlearning theme is puzzles. Adam adores puzzles.  He has so many of them and loves to play with them time and time again. However, there is one puzzle I haven’t been able to find. I have been looking for a large number puzzle that went up to 30. I wanted the puzzle to be plain with no illustrations to distract from the numbers and that each number had their own puzzle piece. After searching in vain, I decided to make our own Missing Number Puzzle.

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I looked through Adam’s puzzle collection. The puzzle had to have a plain back (most of them were dark blue or patterned), it had to have 30 pieces and the puzzle had to be easy to put together. I found the perfect puzzle. Adam’s Alphabet Giant Floor Puzzle Alphabet Puzzle had a plain back and the pieces created a 6×5 piece rectangle. The puzzle was a giant floor one so the pieces were huge and fitted together easily.

DIY Number Puzzle

I made the puzzle up as normal and then turned it upside down. On the plain side of the puzzle I wrote out the numbers 1-30 using coloured Permanent Marker Pens. Normal felt tip pens should work in the same way. In no time at all I had made our own DIY Number Puzzle.

Homemade number puzzle

Adam had a wonderful time putting the Number Puzzle together. He is confident with his numbers to 30 and loved telling me which number he was looking for next to complete the puzzle.

Find the missing number puzzle

Once the number puzzle was complete we started to play our Missing Number Puzzle game. I got Adam to close his eyes whilst I removed a number from the puzzle. Due to the layout of our puzzle the numbers were in a line so it was easy to see which number was missing. I hid the number underneath me and asked Adam to work out what the missing number was. For numbers up to 20 he could tell me the answer instantly by looking at the number that was next to the space. For numbers above 21 he had to count along from 20 to work out what the missing number was.

After several games I started to remove two numbers. By now he had got used to the game and could tell me the answers quickly.

For our final version of playing with our Missing Number Puzzle. I got Adam to close his eyes.  I then picked out two puzzle pieces and swapped them around before placing them back into the puzzle. This time Adam had to search the puzzle to identify what two numbers had changed.

Switching number puzzle

Our DIY Missing Number Puzzle was a huge success and has been played with constantly since I made it. I have even spotted Adam hiding numbers for his Teddy to find!

Can you think of any other games that we can play with our Missing Number Puzzle?

Learning with puzzles

Check out these Puzzle activities as part of the #toolsforlearning series:

Shape Matching Puzzle Cards from Life Over C’s

Stamping Shapes in Kinetic Sand from Still Playing School

Rainbow My Name Puzzles from Powerful Mothering

Brain Games for Kids: The ‘Puzzle’ puzzle from Edventures with Kids

Hillarious Number Line Game (using foam number puzzles) from Teach Me Mommy

Simple Puzzle Sensory Bin from School Time Snippets

Letter Recognition Sensory Bin from This Outnumbered Mama

In-Hand Manipulation Letter Puzzle Activity from Sugar Aunts

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Comments

  1. Niki - Play & Learn Every Day says

    April 13, 2016 at 9:02 pm

    That’s such a fun idea, I can see why Adam loves it!

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  2. Sarah Doyle - let them be small says

    April 23, 2016 at 7:02 pm

    such a great idea. I’m working on numbers with Daniel so might try this x
    #letslearn

    Reply
  3. Amila says

    April 25, 2016 at 5:39 am

    This is a fun idea.My son loves puzzles,so I am sure he’d love such a game too!

    Reply
  4. My Bored Toddler says

    May 2, 2016 at 2:10 am

    This is a great idea. We’ve got a large number puzzle so I’m going to try the guessing part!

    Reply
  5. Leandra says

    May 12, 2016 at 3:36 pm

    Such a great idea, we could really do with a puzzle that goes up to 30 too so I think i might recycle one of T’s old puzzles! Thanks so much for joining in with #letslearn I’m sorry it’s taken so long to comment. X

    Reply

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