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Trick or Treat! Clients will work on focus and self-monitoring themselves in this exercise. This packet is great for anyone who is looking to improve their executive functioning skills and challenge themselves! Keep an eye out for spooky sights and findings in this Halloween themed attention packet!

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Does your patient love to be in the garden or outside? Does the sight of butterflies and bugs bring them joy? If so, download this fun and engaging visual attention worksheet packet. This completely non-verbal packet will help build anyone’s attention and executive function skills.

This packet starts by challenging your patient’s ability to spot the difference in a bug-themed Private Eye activity. The next activity will be the dance of the bugs. Each bug will dance a specific pattern in a sea of bugs. Your patient will have to figure out which bug is dancing which dance. This activity uses attention, executive function, and deductive reasoning skills. The following exercise group involves attention and deciphering skills when your patient has to figure out which piece is missing from which bug. Your patient must study the potential pieces and determine which will solve the broken butterfly. Finally, the last exercise section will use their fine motor and attention skills. Catch the ladybug becomes printable and colorful in these last activities. Your patient will have to ignore the additional bugs to find all of the ladybugs in the images.

In this packet, you will be challenged to complete attention-based skills. You will practice staying on task, finding anomalies in a set of information, recognizing patterns, and comparing and contrasting objects. This packet is an excellent workout for your frontal lobe. This packet will be great for preschoolers to seniors. Anyone who loves summer or bugs will enjoy this packet as well.

Included inside: 18 worksheets and bridging questions.

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If your patients love flowers and all things around spring, they will love this packet. This attention packet is an excellent workout for your patient’s brain. Visual attention is required to do many different cognitive tasks. When strengthened, it may help all areas of cognition.

To help you provide therapy for your client working on their visual attention skills, we have provided 4 exercises that target different cognitive skills involved in this visual attention packet. A keen eye for detail is key to succeeding at these attention-grabbing problems. The first exercise group is a floral adaption of Displaced Images. You’ll have to pay close attention to be able to spot the odd flower out. Next, You’ll have to jump through words in alphabetical order as quickly as possible. Be careful; the distracting floral background might slip you up! Next, we will combine your visual attention skills and spatial memory in a flowery Chunking exercise. This exercise requires you to pay close attention to where flowers are on a grid and carefully recreate them afterward. We’ve left some empty grids so you can make your own. Lastly, we will see how well your visual skills and memory are in Shapes and Colors. This exercise works your visual attention and memory skills as you try and decide which flower is the correct one.

This packet is great for non-speakers, kids, preschoolers, individuals who need attention skills, and anyone looking to engage their brain with a flower-themed packet!

Included inside: 19 worksheets and bridging questions.

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Earth Day meets cognitive training in this mini. In this mini, participants will test their semantic knowledge and visual attention by sorting various waste items into color-coordinated bins. As the number of bins increases, so does the specificity of the items that can and should be placed in each one. This attention-based worksheet packet reinforces the importance of recycling and challenges cognitive skills related to categorization and organization.

About Secret Files

Inspired by our popular digital exercise, Secret Files, this engaging recycling activity packet combines fun and education of proper recycling ways for individuals of all ages. Sorting items based on their category is an essential skill we use every day. Working on these activities might be a great addition to your therapy worksheet collection.

Earth Day Uses

Perfect for celebrating Earth Day or as a standalone educational activity, this recycling packet is suitable for a wide range of ages and abilities. Preschoolers and seniors alike will enjoy these recycling worksheets’ vibrant colors and interactive nature.

You’ll find 5 engaging recycling activities and thought-provoking bridging questions in this packet. Dive into the world of recycling education and environmental awareness with this captivating worksheet packet today! Check out our other sorting activities today! → 

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Step into the holiday spirit with our festive and engaging activity: Holiday Scene Search! Channel your inner Sherlock Holmes as you embark on a search for hidden presents and decorative items in each holiday scene. This fun and interactive worksheet sharpens executive functioning skills while spreading holiday cheer. Based on our digital exercise, Private Eye, your client will have a blast discovering this scene and searching for the items in question.

What is trained? 

As you navigate through the holiday scenes, you’ll exercise essential executive functioning skills, including attention to detail, visual perception, and cognitive flexibility. By honing these skills, your client will not only become a master at finding hidden treasures. You may also engage your client’s ability to stay organized and attentive in various tasks and activities.

Whether you’re preparing holiday cards, organizing decorations, or simply enjoying the festive season, Holiday Scene Search offers a delightful way to challenge your client’s cognitive abilities while indulging in the holiday spirit. We believe that this mini will be great for all ages! Children aged 3+ will love the scene exploration.

What’s inside: 6 pages and bridging questions

Are you looking for other Christmas-themed activities? Check out our other Christmas worksheets → 

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Dive into the depths of memory with our engaging fish-themed mini! Designed to challenge patients and therapists alike, this mini offers a fun and immersive way to test your ability to remember different types of fish. With vivid imagery and captivating exercises, you’ll feel like you’re exploring an aquarium as you work through each worksheet.

Adaptable and versatile, this mini can be used independently or combined with the digital version “Gulf Stream“. Whether you want to enhance your client’s working memory or sharpen their attention skills, these activities provide valuable cognitive stimulation in an enjoyable format.

Inside, you’ll find 8 dynamic worksheets that will transport you to an underwater world filled with colorful fish. Each activity offers a unique opportunity to flex your memory muscles, from identifying different species to recalling their characteristics. This mini will be great for kids as young as 3 and as old as 103! Download it today to have fun looking at fishes during your therapy groups or one-on-one sessions!

Challenge yourself or your clients with these engaging exercises, and watch your client’s memory skills flourish! Check out our other Gulf Stream activities today! → 

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Comparing and contrasting information can be a difficult task for anyone. In this exercise, you must compare and contrast images in two sets to see which images have been substituted. Clients will be able to differentiate between items and analyze information better. This exercise requires extensive attention to detail, which will help you complete tasks such as correctly taking medication, responding thoroughly to work emails, and becoming more conscious of your environment.

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Comparing and contrasting information can be a difficult task for anyone. Many people struggle with analyzing and processing the difference in items. In this exercise, you must compare and contrast images in two sets to see which images have been substituted. This exercise requires extensive attention to detail, which will help you complete tasks such as correctly taking medication, responding thoroughly to work emails, and becoming more conscious of your environment.

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We designed this packet to stimulate visual skills related to verbal attention. The goal of this packet is to engage all aspects related to verbal and visual attention skills. We believe Verbal and visual attention skills are essential to all cognitive functions, especially those around social cognition and language. This packet will start by challenging your patients with two different adaptations of our digital exercise Private Eye. In this first exercise, your patient will have to find perfect circles. The following exercise will challenge their ability to recognize the correlation between words and their meaning to determine which words do not belong. The following exercise is a modification of Elephant Memory. This modification requires your patient to study a scene and answer questions.

The last two exercises are focused directly on verbal attention. This last section starts with an adaption of Restaurant. This adaption aims to engage your patient’s ability to compare and contrast two recipes. Looking side by side, your patient will identify what was different between the recipes. Finally, your patient will have to read a passage and find the typos and errors in this modified version of This Story is Full of Blanks.

This packet is an excellent resource for teachers who want to challenge their students’ ability to process visual-verbal information. Therapists have also used this packet to help stimulate patients with brain injuries that affect their verbal attention skills or aphasia.

Included Inside: 13 pages and bridging questions.

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Attention is greatly impacted post injury. For many people, staying focused is an ongoing issue they have to work with. In this packet, you must become a detective and find the odd character out of a set of characters. This challenges clients to work on analytical as well as processing abilities. By working on these skills, this exercise will help you learn strategies that will help you pick out anomalies as well as relevant information from a set.

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Memory is one of the most impacted cognitive functions post-injury. In this mini-packet, you will have to recall various shapes and their colors that you have previously memorized. By practicing this, clients will be able to improve their cognition and memory skills for both social and academic settings. This exercise will help you learn strategies to better retain visual information that you come across, such as when you view signs as you walk through a city or town.

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Stroke survivors often experience challenges with motor coordination and processing speed, impacting their ability to perform daily tasks. Our mini-packet offers a unique opportunity for clients to practice and refine their motor skills while enhancing their processing abilities. In this engaging activity, participants must utilize both hands and their eyes to catch ladybugs scattered across various scenes.

With a focus on a pointing activity, clients will navigate through intricate city scenes, honing their coordination and processing speed as they locate and capture the elusive ladybugs.  This interactive exercise encourages bilateral movement and visual attention, providing valuable rehabilitation for stroke survivors. Based on our digital exercise, “Catch the Lady Bug,” your client will enjoy this adaptation. If they find this extremely enjoyable, have them try the digital exercise on an iPad today!

Ideal for individuals of all ages, particularly young children, this mini-packet offers a fun and immersive way to improve motor coordination and processing skills. Participants can enjoy the challenge of the pointing activity while exploring vibrant city landscapes filled with hidden ladybugs.

Inside this mini-packet, you’ll find a single pointing activity featuring intricate city scenes teeming with ladybugs. Prepare for a delightful adventure filled with motor skill challenges and cognitive stimulation! If you like this activity, check out our other processing speed activities today! → 

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What is Attention?

Attention is a cognitive process that involves focusing one’s mental resources on a specific aspect of the environment, information, or task while filtering out other competing stimuli. It is the ability to selectively concentrate on certain inputs, thoughts, or actions while ignoring distractions or less relevant information. It plays a crucial role in various cognitive functions and daily activities.

Why use our Attention Worksheets & Activities?

Our worksheets engage several different cognitive dimensions of attention. Here are a few that they may engage.

  1. Visual Focus:

    All of our attention worksheets are creatively designed to challenge your ability to focus on unique details. These activities may require you to identify subtle differences, enhancing your visual attention and observation skills.

  2. Auditory:

    Sharpen your listening skills and selective attention with the auditory-based activities we offer. These exercises may help individuals better identify specific sounds within a complex auditory environment.

  3. Sustained Concentration:

    With all of our worksheets, they will require time to complete. In view of our fast-paced world, these worksheets might just boost your ability to sustain attention over longer periods. This skill is crucial for tasks that demand prolonged focus.

Advantages of our Attention Worksheets PDF:

Our attention-enhancing worksheets are available for download in PDF format, allowing for easy access anytime, anywhere. With a variety of exercises included in each packet, we aim to prevent monotony and promote comprehensive cognitive growth. You’ll never find the same combination of exercises in any of our packets, as we are dedicated to providing you with the variety you need. Our worksheets are backed by science and developed using our digital tool that’s rooted in research.

Scientifically Backed: Our digital tool inspires all of our worksheets. And our digital tool is rooted in science. Want to see more about our research? check out all of our research here →

Who can use these Attention Activities?

Initially designed for professionals, these worksheets can be used with all ages to practice and work on attention skills.

With this purpose, we aim to support the community of healthcare professionals, teachers, and school educators who help individuals with their attention skills by regularly adding new and different attention-based resources. 

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Is your client working on paying attention for long periods of time? We have the worksheet packet for you!  Based on our digital exercises, this packet offers an engaging way to work on attention skills, and other cognitive tasks like visual scanning and verbal memory. This packet will keep clients of all ages engaged with a fun “crawling critters” bug theme. The sustained attention skills that this packet focuses on are needed for a huge variety of daily tasks, such as studying, participating in a conversation, and driving.

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Catch the Ladybug: Catch ladybugs as fast as you can, while navigating distractions.

This Story is Full of Blanks: Use context clues to fill in the blank words in a text.

Pay Attention: Recall a series of letters or numbers in original or reverse order.

Private Eye: Locate an image in a grid of similar images.

 

This packet is great for kids, and all ages looking to exercise cognitive skills.

What’s inside: 27 sustained attention skills worksheets and bridging questions.

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Working on visual-spatial skills and mental imagery with your clients? Give these spatial skills worksheets a whirl! They’ll provide engaging cognitive tasks that ask you to mentally rotate objects and recall images or words in specific locations. Based on our digital exercises, this packet will encourage a well-rounded visual-spatial skillset in a fun way! These skills are used for numerous daily tasks such as driving, going for a walk, cleaning and organizing. Help your clients exercise their visual-spatial skills and bring them into daily life!

This packet offers an engaging way to practice visual-spatial skills, and can be completed independently or with a provider based on the needs of the individual. It’s ideal for people looking to practice spatial skills needed for navigating the world around them. Whether you’re a clinician or caregiver, this packet will offer ways to both have fun and exercise these skills!

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N-Back: Recall colors in a specific frequency and order.

Words, Where Are You?: Use visual, verbal, and spatial memory to recall the placement of words on a grid.

Turn Around and Around: Mentally rotate objects to find which one is different from the others.

Find Your Way!: Recall a path through various objects in the correct order.

This packet is great for adolescents, adults, and seniors looking to exercise cognitive skills.

What is inside: 44 spatial skills worksheets and bridging questions.

Exercise your cognition — explore our full library of visual-spatial worksheets today! →

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Working on social skills with your clients? These social cognition worksheets provide tasks that draw from daily interactions. Based on our digital exercises, this packet offers a multifaceted approach that supports the skills of attention and visual & verbal memory needed in social situations.

This packet offers a fun approach to working out your social cognition skills. It’s ideal for individuals looking to practice social skills and other cognitive skills that support social skills, such as memory and attention. Whether you’re a clinician or caregiver, this packet will offer ways to both entertain and exercise skills!

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This Story is Full of Blanks: Complete quotes from various literary works by selecting words from a word bank.

Displaced Images: Compare two image series, identifying differing images between them.

Secret Files: Classify words into categories.

I Remember You!: Learn and recall names and faces, facing increasing complexity.

This packet is great for adolescents, as well as adults looking to exercise cognitive skills.

What is inside: 26 social cognition worksheets and bridging questions.

Exercise your cognition — explore our full library of social cognition worksheets today! →

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Step into a sensory adventure and work on your cognitive abilities! This engaging packet is designed to challenge your executive function and deductive reasoning skills through a variety of sensory-based tasks. Drawing inspiration from our digital exercises, this packet offers a multi-sensory approach that keeps users engaged while supporting essential cognitive skills.

With puzzles that involve sight, sound, and spatial reasoning, this packet provides a well-rounded brain workout. It’s perfect for those looking to boost problem-solving, mental flexibility, and decision-making skills. Whether you’re a clinician, caregiver, or individual looking to work on cognition, this sensory-themed cognitive packet has something for everyone.

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Sleight of Hands: Identify if an image shows a left or right hand, requiring mental rotation and spatial reasoning.

Gulf Stream: Search for one memorized image hidden among visually distracting images, strengthening visual scanning, sustained attention, and memory.

Dance with Fireflies: Identify the path of a moving shape, honing tracking skills, attention, and pattern recognition.

Sound Check: Listen to musical notes and identify differences between them, promoting auditory discrimination, sustained attention, and auditory processing.

This packet is great for adolescents, as well as adults looking to exercise cognitive skills.

What is inside: 24 deductive reasoning worksheets, 3 videos, and bridging questions.

Exercise your cognition — explore our full library of executive function worksheets today! →

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Unearth new cognitive skills with this earth science-themed cognitive exercise packet! Designed to engage and challenge, this packet incorporates a variety of fun exercises that target expressive language, verbal recall, and memory. Featuring exciting tasks such as assembling jumbled word fragments, finding hidden words, and decoding symbols into meaningful text, this packet offers a dynamic way to practice key cognitive skills while learning about the fascinating world of earth science.

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Split Words – Assemble jumbled word fragments to create meaningful earth science terms, practicing problem-solving and expressive language.

Embroidery – Search for hidden earth science-related words in a grid of letters, sharpening attention to detail and verbal recall.

Seize the Keywords – Memorize and recall specific words from a text about earth science topics, strengthening verbal working memory and sequencing skills.

Decipher – Decode symbols to uncover earth science facts and terms, challenging users to connect visual and verbal information.

This packet is great for adolescents, as well as adults looking to exercise foundational cognitive skills after an injury or stroke.

What is inside: 32 expressive language worksheets and bridging questions.

Exercise your cognition — explore our full library of language worksheets today! →

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Help your client exercise executive functions like planning and inhibitory control with this colorful exercise. Jump between paints on a palette organizing them in alphabetical and numerical order. You’ll need to work as quickly as possible while alternating between different types of stimuli as the exercises get more difficult.

Inspired by our digital exercise, Hurray For Change, this mini packet requires you to sort information while utilizing inhibition to avoid making mistakes. These skills are needed for tasks like writing, following instructions, and driving.

Included inside: 9 pages of executive function worksheets and bridging questions.

If you like this mini packet, make sure to check out our other executive function worksheets today! → 

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Exercise working memory and divided attention skills with this fun mini packet! In these visual working memory worksheets, you’ll memorize a book cover, do a distracting exercise, and then recreate the book cover using the options provided.

Inspired by our digital exercise, Heraldry, this mini packet requires you to memorize visual information while distracting you with other information to really test your memory. The distraction provides an extra layer of difficulty and makes you work your memory even more!

Memorizing visual information is a skill that is necessary for daily life. We utilize this skill when following directions on a GPS, identifying medications, and following signs in a building or subway system. This exercise is designed to work on visual working memory and dividing attention between two tasks. Challenge your brain’s capacity to handle tasks that demand working memory and divided attention!

Included inside: 12 pages of visual working memory worksheets, 3 videos, and bridging questions.

If you like this mini packet, make sure to check out our other memory worksheets today! → 

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Explore ancient language with this fun attention and visual memory mini packet! These visual attention worksheets use characters from the Scandinavian runic alphabet to help clients exercise their attention and working memory skills.

Inspired by our digital exercise, Ancient Writing, this mini packet asks you to make note of differences in two sets of characters using an alphabet that may be unfamiliar to the user. More characters are added as the exercises progress, requiring the user to visually scan a wider range of information before making note of the differences between the two sets.

Comparing visual information is something that we do in daily life. These skills come into play when comparing two pill bottles to remember which one to take, and when using the various controls on the dashboard of a car. This exercise is designed to work on visual working memory and visual attention skills. Challenge your brain’s capacity to handle tasks that demand working memory and attention!

Included inside: 9 pages of visual attention worksheets and bridging questions.

If you like this mini packet, make sure to check out our other attention worksheets today! → 

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Step into the bustling atmosphere of an Italian restaurant and challenge your memory skills with these engaging verbal working memory worksheets. With a unique hybrid format, this packet blends fun scenarios with memory-building tasks to help clients strengthen their verbal and working memory skills.

Inspired by our popular digital exercise, “Restaurant,” this mini packet asks you to memorize people’s names and their food order at an Italian eatery. As the exercises progress, the challenges increase, requiring you to juggle more information and put your working memory to the test.

Imagine yourself as a maître d’ or waiter tasked with remembering names and seating arrangements in a busy Italian restaurant. This exercise is designed to work on verbal memory, sequential recall, and the ability to manage increasingly complex information. Challenge your brain’s capacity to handle real-world situations that demand working memory and attention!

Included inside: 6 pages of verbal working memory worksheets, videos, and bridging questions.

If you like this mini packet, make sure to check out our other memory worksheets today! → 

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Take a walk through the natural world while strengthening your language skills with this engaging mini cognitive exercise packet. Rooted in our popular digital exercise, Root It Out, this packet challenges you to identify and recall nature-related words using clues like first letters, scrambled spellings, and word fragments. It’s a fun, brain-boosting journey that we hope will leave you feeling more confident in your verbal recall abilities.

Verbal recall is a critical cognitive ability that affects everyday tasks like remembering names, recalling specific terms, or describing objects. This mini packet offers targeted practice designed to strengthen these language-based skills. These exercises support word-finding, vocabulary development, and the ability to make connections between partial word fragments and complete words—skills that support communication and memory in daily life.

This mini packet can help support users in regaining confidence in their language abilities after an injury or stroke, and practice key communication skills like naming objects, describing items, and recalling vocabulary. It may also be helpful to individuals who have learning disabilities, as they work on spelling, recall, and word recognition. These exercises may support language processing and confidence in academic settings.

Included inside: 6 pages of language worksheets, and bridging questions.

If you like this mini packet, make sure to check out our other language worksheets today! → 

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