Executive Functions Worksheets
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Executive Functions Worksheets
Our collection of executive functions worksheets may improve your client’s cognitive abilities. With our PDF downloads, you can conveniently build therapy plans using these worksheets. If you are not a clinician, you can use these to engage your cognitive skills as well!
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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.
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Dive deep into an ocean of fun and challenge your visual attention skills with this sea creature-themed mini cognitive exercise packet. Based on our popular digital exercise, “Displaced Images,” this packet engages users in spotting differences among various sea creatures, requiring focused concentration and careful observation to determine which images don’t match. This mini packet is designed to work on visual attention—a crucial skill for daily life—while providing an engaging and stimulating experience for anyone working on their cognitive skills.
This packet is designed to support individuals who may struggle with visual attention due to a learning disability, aging, stroke, or brain injury. It provides a gentle but effective way to practice attentional skills in a targeted format that is accessible and engaging.
The fun underwater theme makes this mini packet a great option for adolescents and adults!
Included inside: 12 pages of visual attention worksheets, and bridging questions.
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Get into the Halloween spirit while sharpening your verbal memory skills with this engaging mini cognitive exercise packet. Based on our popular digital exercise, “Embroidery,” this packet challenges you to find hidden words in grids of letters—each word related to a Halloween theme! Finding each word in the grid helps solidify your knowledge of word structure and enhances spelling skills, which are helpful for both written and spoken communication. Perfect for building verbal recall and working on spelling, this mini packet is a fun and effective way to work on cognitive skills while immersing yourself in festive and spooky imagery.
Dive into grids filled with letters as you search for hidden Halloween-themed words. This word search-style exercise stimulates your long-term verbal memory, requiring you to recall and recognize familiar words within a sea of letters.
The skill of verbal recall allows us to pull words from our long-term memory, which aids us during conversations, writing, and many other daily tasks.
The fun Halloween theme makes this mini worksheet packet a great option for kids and adults! This mini packet is perfect for individuals of all ages who want to work on their verbal memory skills.
Included inside: 6 pages of verbal memory worksheets and bridging questions.
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Exercise your social cognition skills with this bridging packet! Centered around the theme of remembering individuals at a conference, this packet offers a comprehensive approach to improving your ability to navigate social interactions and professional networking. Drawing from a variety of effective exercises, this social cognition workbook provides a fun and practical way to work on social and cognitive abilities.
Exercises:
I Remember You: Focus on remembering names, faces, and personal details about individuals, which is crucial for building social connections and professional relationships.
Pay Attention: Exercise your ability to concentrate on specific tasks and retain information over short periods.
Seize the Keywords: Encourages you to memorize key elements of a text and recall them accurately, a skill useful in remembering important details from conversations.
This Story is Full of Blanks: Challenges you to fill in missing words in a text using context clues, working on your ability to understand and remember conversations.
This packet is great for professionals who are looking to re-enter work after an injury, or students looking to enhance their social cognition skills.
Challenge your social cognition and memory with our conference-themed cognitive exercise bridging packet. Combining the best of multiple exercises, this packet provides a practical and engaging way to work on your ability to remember names and faces, stay focused, and communicate effectively.
If you like this workbook, make sure to check out our other bridging workbooks today! →
Included inside: 25 activity pages
Disclaimer: Results vary based on individual effort and cognitive health.
Give your cognitive skills a real challenge with these executive function worksheets, designed to strengthen working memory and sharpen strategy and inhibition skills. Inspired by our popular digital exercise Decipher, your client will need to decode a piece of text based on the symbols provided. As the levels get harder, less and less clues are given. This mini packet is perfect for those working on using context clues, verbal working memory, inhibitory control, or strategy skills.
Perfect for those working on the following skills:
- Engaging in tasks that require careful planning and strategic thinking
- Managing impulses and staying focused on goals
- Resisting distractions and maintaining concentration
- Remembering words and phrases from long-term verbal memory
- Using context clues to decipher meanings and solve problems
This packet is recommended for adults due to how difficult this exercise can be, but teens looking for a challenge can give it a try too!
Included inside: 6 pages of working memory worksheets and bridging questions.
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Plan a party with this fun and mentally stimulating bridging workbook! Designed to combine the excitement of organizing a celebration with cognitive skill enhancement, this packet offers a unique and engaging way to exercise your cognition.
Based on three of our most popular digital exercises, this workbook is perfect for adults and seniors looking to sharpen their memory, strategy, and planning skills while mastering the art of event planning.
Displaced Characters: Discern the difference between figures.
Seize the Keywords: Memorize specific words in a text, then sort them.
This Story is Full of Blanks!: Work on verbal memory and strategy skills by filling in the blanks in a text.
Ideal for adults looking to exercise memory and executive function skills, and seniors looking to maintain their cognitive health and stay engaged.
Plan a memorable party with our attention, strategy, planning, and verbal memory workbook that not only exercises your brain but also helps you practice the skills needed to plan an event. Dive into the exercises and work on your attention, verbal memory, strategic planning, and overall event coordination skills. Whether you’re planning a birthday bash or a casual get-together, this packet helps you practice the skills needed to create an unforgettable experience.
If you like this workbook, make sure to check out our other bridging workbooks today! →
Included inside: 22 activity pages
Disclaimer: Results vary based on individual effort and cognitive health.
Embrace the sunny season while working on your cognitive abilities with our summer-themed cognitive exercise packet! This collection of fun executive function activities is designed to help you practice verbal and visual memory, as well as planning skills. Inspired by some of our engaging digital exercises, this packet of planning worksheets provides a comprehensive mental workout with a summer vacation twist.
The Right Count: Sharpen your arithmetic skills by ordering numbers in ascending or descending order. This activity challenges your planning abilities and helps you develop a keen sense for numerical sequences.
Embroidery: Hone your verbal memory and attention to detail by finding a hidden word within a grid of letters. This task is perfect for working on verbal recall and visual scanning skills.
Hurray for Change: Take on the dual challenge of ordering numbers and letters simultaneously. This exercise boosts your ability to multitask and enhances both numerical and alphabetical ordering skills.
An American in Paris: Work on visual and verbal memory by memorizing trips using images and location names. This activity is great for working on memory and strategy skills.
Ideal for individuals recovering from a brain injury and looking to improve daily cognitive functions, seniors who want to engage in stimulating activities, or students looking to exercise critical thinking, memory retention, and organizational skills.
What is inside: 41 unique planning worksheets and bridging questions.
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Immerse yourself in a celestial world of wordplay with our starry cognitive exercise packet full of executive function activities! Inspired by our popular digital exercise, Writing in the Stars, this engaging packet is designed to help you fit words together in a way that challenges and refines your executive function skills.
By working through these carefully crafted executive function worksheets, your clients will practice critical skills such as planning and inhibition. Planning requires you to think ahead and organize your thoughts strategically, while inhibition helps you control impulses and focus on the task at hand. Both skills are essential for effective problem-solving and decision-making.
Included inside: 7 pages of executive function activities, and bridging questions.
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Time to pack for a trip! This collection of fashion-forward worksheets allows you to practice essential everyday tasks such as packing, sorting laundry, and putting together stylish outfits. Give your brain a workout with this pattern recognition workbook!
Our exercises are designed to sharpen your visual attention, pattern recognition, and working memory. Inspired by four of our most popular exercises, each activity provides a unique and stimulating challenge.
Private Eye: Locate a specific item among a series of items.
Entangled Figures: Discern and untangle overlapping images, crucial for recognizing and organizing clothing as you pack a bag.
Shapes and Colors: Develop your pattern recognition skills by matching and sorting items based on their shapes and colors, essential for putting together an outfit.
Displaced Images: Work on pattern recognition skills by finding the similarities and differences between images.
Who can benefit from the skills practiced in this pattern recognition workbook?
Adults and Seniors: Practice cognitive skills needed for organization with these mentally stimulating activities. The exercises are designed to maintain and improve cognitive functions that are crucial for daily tasks and independent living.
Teens and Young Adults: Perfect for fashion enthusiasts who are working on cognitive development. These exercises will help you exercise your attention to detail, memory, and organizational skills—abilities that are beneficial in academic and personal life.
If you like this workbook, make sure to check out our other bridging workbooks today! →
Included inside: 22 activity pages
Disclaimer: Results vary based on individual effort and cognitive health.
Are you a geography enthusiast? Challenge yourself with our exciting verbal and visual memory worksheets that test your knowledge of flags from around the world! This unique twist on our popular visual and verbal memory game, “I Remember You,” offers a fun and educational way to exercise your cognition.
This mini packet is crafted to help you work on your capacity to recall words and images associated with each other – a fundamental skill for remembering names and faces. By engaging with colorful and distinct national flags, you’ll train your brain to form stronger associations between visual cues and verbal information.
Perfect for both kids and adults, this exercise provides an enjoyable yet stimulating way to exercise your memory skills. Whether your client is a student putting their memory and geography skills to the test, or an adult looking to strengthen memory abilities after an injury, this packet offers a rewarding mental workout.
Embark on a journey of worldly knowledge and cognitive enhancement. Strengthen your recall abilities and expand your geographical knowledge, all while having fun with this innovative memory game!
Included inside: 14 pages of verbal and visual memory worksheets, and bridging questions
If you like this mini, make sure to check out our other memory worksheets today! →
Explore a town like never before with these engaging spatial memory worksheets, turning a bike ride into an exciting cognitive adventure! This comprehensive packet is inspired by four of our popular digital exercises, each crafted to enhance specific cognitive skills.
Start with “Catch the Ladybug,” a delightful activity that works on visual attention and spatial awareness as you spot various items on the page. Then, move on to “Dance with the Fireflies,” where you’ll hone your attention and spatial reasoning by following mesmerizing tangled patterns.
Challenge your mind further with “Turn Around and Around,” an exercise that sharpens your mental imagery and rotation abilities. Visualize objects from different angles and improve your ability to manipulate them in your mind’s eye. Finally, navigate through “Find Your Way,” a task that focuses on strengthening your spatial memory as you memorize and recall intricate pathways.
This packet is meticulously designed to exercise a range of cognitive skills, including attention, spatial reasoning, memory, and planning. Whether you’re an adult or senior looking to keep your mind sharp, or an adolescent seeking a challenge, these exercises offer an enjoyable and cognitively stimulating experience.
What is inside: 38 unique attention and spatial memory worksheets and bridging questions.
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Embark on a vibrant journey around the globe and immerse yourself in the beauty of flower festivals with these captivating exercises! Inspired by our digital adventure exercise “Around the World in 80 Trips,” this innovative hybrid mini packet offers a delightful fusion of entertainment and cognitive enhancement.
Transport yourself to enchanting locales with these planning skills worksheets as you engage in stimulating activities designed to challenge and sharpen your cognitive functions. From the intricate executive functions required to navigate each trip, to the spatial memory needed to recall each vibrant image, these exercises promise a stimulating mental workout. As you traverse through these floral wonders, you’ll also embark on a quest to fortify your verbal memory, as you work to retain the names of each festival destination in the correct order.
This hybrid mini is perfect for both adolescents and adults to cultivate cognitive skills with a fun and engaging trip around the world!
Included inside: 6 activities, 3 videos, and bridging questions
If you like this mini, make sure to check out our other executive function worksheets today! →
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What is Executive Functions?
Executive functions refer to the cognitive processes involved in inhibition, decision-making, problem-solving, learning, and retrieving the correct information we have learned previously to complete a task. We use this when we plan out our days or decided if we should go out with friends at 9pm or to go bed. It is an essential cognitive function.
Why should I use your Executive Functioning Worksheets for Adults?
In truth, if you’re searching for comprehensive executive functioning worksheets for adults in PDF format, you’re in the right place. Our PDF downloads address various aspects of executive function, including working memory, cognitive flexibility, and emotional regulation. All while looking fun and not childish. We have a team of graphic designers who work on our products.
Do you have other activities?
Yes, we do! All of our worksheets are based on our digital tool, HappyNeuron Pro. In fact, if you enjoy using these worksheets we highly recommend checking out the capabilities of our digital tool. Additionally, by integrating our digital tool, you may just save yourself time and money all while building a strong therapeutic toolbox.
Why do you have Executive Functioning Activities for Adults?
Executive functioning is essential for success in both personal and professional life. Without strong executive functioning skills, individuals may have lower mental agility, an inability to stress management, and trouble with goal setting. Additionally, some new research suggests that strengthening executive functioning skills helps psychosis. Check out some of our recent research →
Why Choose HappyNeuron Pro's Executive Functions Worksheets?
Expertly Designed: Our worksheets and activities are designed by experts who specialize in enhancing executive functions for adults.
Proven Results: Many individuals have benefited from our resources, experiencing improved executive functioning skills and life satisfaction. In view of this, if your client enjoys these, check out our digital exercises for executive function →
Convenient PDF Format: Download, print, and engage in executive functioning exercises at your own convenience.
