Jigsaw Puzzles

Jigsaw puzzles are something that can keep you engaged for hours, be it kids or oldies...

This is believed to develop better hand-eye co-ordination and keep the brain active. Studies also say that it can help preventing Alzheimer's!!! Wonderful, isn't it...

I found Frank puzzles to be the best ones for small kids, especially, my 2.5 year old has been doing this since he was one and a half. I found this very useful to keep him engaged for a long period of time. Since these are self correcting ones, they do not require adult supervision... Frank puzzles come in variety of themes and this also helped my little one to make out many pictures and correlate them to the real ones...

I think more than me, these links will talk better!!!

http://www.thepuzzlemania.com/

http://searchwarp.com/swa17295.htm

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TOMY TOMICA PLARAIL C12 Steam Train & Arched Bridge Rail Set

Trains, trains, trains....

Something is definitely amazing about them... I wonder why India has no toy trains released after their steam locos and diesels... or even if it did they are not very famous...

In one of my previous blogs I did say, I was introduced to the train world by a Japanese friend of mine who gifted me with this amazing TOMICA PLARAIL set... One of the most awesome sets I have come across... This set features the C12 steam locomotive which had served the Japanese railway to the until 1975...  I received this set in 2009, the year in which Tomica released this set in order to celebrates its 50th anniversary. Awesome isn't it?

Even though the blue plastic tracks have less details than that of the trackmaster tracks, they are the most awesome sets to play with....

Unfortunately since I do not have a picture of the package, I was lucky enough to get one in one of the ebay sites... so, here I paste it....

Check out more on this toy:
http://www.takaratomy.co.jp/english/products/plarail/history/index.html
http://homepage3.nifty.com/EF57/engines/C12.htm

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