Find IT Games Review & Giveaway: “Pieces of History” – Pharaoh’s Egypt Puzzle

Puzzles had been a favorite quiet-time activity for my girls, but I honestly haven’t brought any new ones into our house since the girls graduated from the traditional wooden-board early learning puzzles. We recently received the “Pieces of History” – Pharaoh’s Egypt interactive puzzle by Find It and was a great way to spend some quality time with the girls, whenever we had a few spare minutes.

They had never done a large-scale puzzle – this one has 300 pieces, so it was interesting to see how they approached the task of fitting pieces together. Once I showed them how to separate the pieces into categories by edges and colors, they were off and running…or sitting, to be more exact. Pharaoh’s Egypt is wonderfully illustrated, and has a beautiful frame around the picture of an Ancient Egyptian river and marketplace scene.

The frame has forty different objects around the edges that are incorporated within the puzzle itself. Once the puzzle was completed, it turned into a Find It game, where the girls had to look for the various objects.

The part that I liked best was that the puzzle came with a key explaining the objects found around the border, with just enough information to be historically accurate, while not turning kids off to school-related information.

The scene itself definitely covers all the bases of what any student who is studying Ancient Egypt will learn about, from the clothes, to the rafts, the foods to the animals, the homes to the plant-life – this puzzle has it all!

The “Pieces of History” Interactive Puzzle series has two additional offerings – On Dry Ground, which tells the story of the crossing of the Red Sea, and The Parade of Animals. The puzzles retail for $13.00 and can be found at http://www.finditgames.com/.

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*This giveaway will run through midnight on February 25,  2012 (PST). Winner will be chosen using Random.org from all valid entries and notified via email. Winner will have 48 hours to contact us before another winner is chosen. Giveaway is open to U.S. (18+) residents only.

* We did not receive monetary compensation for this review. That’s IT Mommy received Pieces of History – Pharaoh’s Egypt puzzle from Find It Games free of charge to facilitate this review. Giveaway item will be provided by sponsor. Sponsor has the right to refuse filling prize for duplicate winners from other blogs. This will in no way sway our opinion of the product or service.
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