Printable sequencing puzzle strips are handy, fast, low prep, and effective for keeping the children engaged while reinforcing various sequencing skills. Pattern strips help kids learn numbers, letters, CVC words, and even build simple sentences. These puzzles are great for occupational therapy classrooms, centers, and morning work!
Puzzle strips will help kids learn to order numbers easily. A teacher or parents has to cut the puzzles along the lines, mix the strips, and give them to the students. Kids solve the puzzle by following the sequence of letters, numbers, words, etc. Kids can glue puzzles to a piece of paper and color them!
The benefits of puzzle strips:
- Logic and concentration skills
- Observational skills and visual processing
- Fine motor development
- Hand-eye coordination
- The knowledge of numbers and letters in a sequence
- Sequence counting
- Counting by tens
- Skip counting
- Upper- and lowercase sequencing and recognition
- Words building
- Simple sentence building
Images can be complex (with some scenes, like this one) or simple (only one object, like this one). There are seasonal and holiday puzzle strips for Halloween, Winter, Christmas, Fall, Summer, Easter, etc. The students can use metal trays as a work surface. Some teachers use magnets to make the puzzle activity more hands-on. Some teachers print color versions of the puzzles, laminate them, and cut along the lines.
Your students will love the images that appear by following the sequence correctly! Sequencing puzzles will become a lifelong tool in your classroom routine.
