What's Missing with Post Office

This missing-piece puzzle gives a Kindergarten child a picture of post with one piece gone, and asks which cutout completes it. The child pictures the whole, spots the gap, and chooses the matching piece. Restoring what is absent — making the a letter, a stamp and a parcel whole again — builds the inference young children use to sense what is missing, and the cheerful pictures keep the puzzle approachable.

Finding the missing piece trains a child to detect absence — to look at a whole picture, sense that something is gone, and work out exactly what. That noticing-what-is-absent is a genuine reasoning skill, built by completing broken pictures, and a post picture makes it approachable. The child pictures the complete image and restores the part that is missing.

Children love finding the piece that makes a picture whole again, and completing the puzzle feels satisfying. When this is easy, find the missing piece in what's missing with reptiles and amphibians, or try what's missing with thanksgiving. You can also browse every missing-piece puzzle or the whole kindergarten collection — each sheet prints cleanly or plays online for free, and the more pictures a child completes, the sharper their eye grows for what is missing and what it takes to make a picture whole again.