01/28/2026
🎉 Play of the Week Wednesday 🧠✏️
Build Visual-Perceptual Skills While You Play!
🏃♂️🏀⚽ Did you know that Sports Figures is much more than a fun wooden toy? This engaging stickman puzzle helps strengthen visual skills, attention, planning, and problem-solving—all through hands-on play!
With bright, tactile wooden pieces shaped like sports figures and sticks, this game encourages players to match, assemble, and recognize shapes and patterns. It’s simple, motivating, and perfect for kids, families, classrooms, and therapy sessions.
Here's what it helps develop:
🔷 Form Constancy – Recognizing sports figures and shapes even when they’re rotated or flipped.
🟠 Visual Memory – Remembering where pieces go and what patterns to build.
🔺 Processing Speed – Quickly finding and placing the correct piece.
🟣 Figure–Ground Perception – Picking out target figures from all the pieces.
🟩 Sequential Memory – Remembering the pattern or order of pieces needed to build a figure.
🟨 Closure – Mentally completing the shape or figure when pieces are missing or partially visible.
✨ Need to simplify play?
• Start with only 2–3 pieces at a time
• Work on one figure instead of a group
• Use verbal cues like “find the arms first”
• Allow players to trace the shape before building
• Sort pieces by color or type before assembling
✨ Want to make it more challenging?
• Time each build for speed rounds
• Create your own figure patterns to copy
• Increase the number of pieces used
• Require players to describe each step before placing
• Work with eyes closed to build memory recall
💡 Visual discrimination, planning, and shape recognition all come together in this hands-on, screen-free favorite.
Perfect for kids, families, educators, and therapists looking to build visual-perceptual skills through play.
🎯 Match the pieces. Build the figure. Score the win.