Picture Sudoku for Kids Ages 4-8 | 60 Printable Puzzles + Story Book + Memory Cards

60 PICTURE SUDOKU FOR CHILDREN 4 TO 8 — six growing levels, every answer included, plus cut-out tiles, a bonus story book and 12 pairs of memory cards.

No reading required. Instead of numbers, the squares hold farm animals — a rooster, a goose, a turkey, a mouse, a butterfly, a bee, a fish, a flower and a tree. A child who cannot read yet can still work out that this row already has a rooster, so the empty square must be something else. That is real logic, before literacy.

TWO WAYS TO PLAY, and you pick the one that suits your afternoon:

• CUT AND PLACE — four tile sheets are included, one for each picture set. Cut them out once and they work for every puzzle in that set.

• OR WRITE THE NUMBER — every picture has a number, and the key is printed at the bottom of every single puzzle page. No scissors, no glue, nothing to prepare.

That second option matters. Most picture sudoku assumes you are willing to cut. This one does not.

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WHAT YOU GET

• 60 picture sudoku across 6 growing levels

• 4 cut-out tile sheets, one per picture set, sized to fit the squares

• A complete answer key — every puzzle solved

• A "this puzzle book belongs to" page and a Sudoku Star certificate

• BONUS: 12 pairs of memory cards — the same farm pictures as a matching game, with card backs and printing instructions

• BONUS: a 15-page illustrated story book, written to be read aloud

Puzzle book 94 pages · Story book 15 pages · 109 pages in total.

FOUR PDF FILES — that is two books, each supplied in A4 and in US Letter. The tiles, memory cards, answers and certificate are all inside the puzzle book.

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THE SIX LEVELS

Sprout 4x4 · Seedling 4x4 · Bud 6x6 · Bloom 6x6 · Tall 6x6 · Sunlit 6x6

Ten puzzles on every level. The two 4x4 levels are the gentle start; the four 6x6 levels are where the thinking really begins. Every puzzle has exactly one possible solution — each one was checked by exhaustive search before it went in the book, so a child can never get stuck on a puzzle that had two answers all along.

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WHY PARENTS LIKE IT

NO PREPARATION. If you choose the write-the-number method, you print a page and hand over a pencil. That is the whole set-up.

TOLD APART BY SHAPE, NOT JUST COLOUR. A rooster, a fish and a tree look different in black and white too — so grayscale printing works, and it works for a colour-blind child.

FOUR PICTURE SETS. The farmyard, the meadow, the whole farm, and by the pond. Sixty puzzles never start to feel like the same puzzle.

IT KEEPS GOING. When the puzzles are done there are still twelve pairs of memory cards and a story to read.

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THE BONUS STORY

"Luna and the Smallest Voice." Luna loses her one red flower and asks the rooster, who is too busy being loud; the goose, too busy with her feathers; the turkey, too busy being admired. The mouse — the one nobody ever notices — is the one who saw where it went.

The animals in the story are the same animals in the puzzles and on the memory cards, so a child meets the rooster, then places him in a grid, then matches him in a game.

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THE MEMORY CARDS

Twelve pairs on two sheets, with both halves of every pair on the same sheet — one print gives you a playable game. There is a card-back sheet too, so you can print the reverse and the pictures do not show through. Printing tips are included: card weight, printing at actual size, rounding the corners, and two ways to make the game easier for a younger player.

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PERFECT FOR

Preschool and kindergarten · homeschool logic and early-maths work · quiet time after school · rainy afternoons · waiting rooms and long journeys · a mixed-ability classroom where six levels means everybody gets a puzzle that fits · a first sudoku for a child who is not reading yet

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HOW IT WORKS

1. Buy — your files appear in your account once payment clears

2. Download — on a computer or in a web browser

3. Print — at home, on plain paper. Choose "Actual size", not "Fit to page"

This is a DIGITAL DOWNLOAD. No physical item is posted to you.

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THE FILES

• Luna at the Farm — Picture Sudoku — A4 — 94 pages

• Luna at the Farm — Picture Sudoku — US Letter — 94 pages

• Luna and the Smallest Voice — Story Book — A4 — 15 pages

• Luna and the Smallest Voice — Story Book — US Letter — 15 pages

Format: PDF. Opens in any free PDF reader. No software or fonts needed. The files are not editable.

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TERMS OF USE

For personal and classroom use. Print as many copies as you need for your own family or your own students. Please do not resell, share or redistribute the files, and do not sell prints made from them.

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Written and designed by Edina Szlanyinka.

Created with AI assistance. Designed, edited and finalised by the seller.

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Luna also has printable maze books in this shop — a summer one, a Halloween one and a Christmas one. No puzzle is repeated between any of them.

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