Free Executive Functioning Worksheets
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Free Executive Functioning Worksheets
Explore our entire library of cognitive worksheets. We have big packets, mini packets, bridging packets, or bundles that focus on a cognitive function, a medical condition, or a theme. Join our monthly newsletter and get free packets directly in your inbox 2x a month.
Get ready for the autumn harvest with this mini packet! These fun worksheets will help you work on visual-spatial and executive function skills. Inspired by our digital exercise, Entangled Figures, you’ll be asked to look at a complex image made up of several simpler images, and determine which simple images make up the tangled figure. This exercise targets visual-spatial and executive function skills, requiring you to visually scan for memorable shapes, hold them in your working memory, mentally rotate them, and problem-solve as you mentally detangle the images. You also need to utilize inhibition skills and not act too hastily – taking your time figuring out the problem will likely lead to more accurate answers. These skills contribute to daily tasks like navigating a new environment, planning appointments, planning a grocery shopping trip, and navigating using adaptive equipment such as a wheelchair.
This mini packet is great for all ages!
Included inside: 10 pages of executive function worksheets, and bridging questions.
If you like this mini packet, make sure to check out our other visual-spatial worksheets today! →
We offer many executive functioning activities for therapists, counselors, teachers, and caregivers. Our executive functioning activities work o working memory, time management, self-regulation, self-awareness, perseverance, organization, and attention.
These free executive functioning skills are in an easy-to-use and printable format (PDF). All of our worksheets are based on our digital executive functioning activities. These free and evidenced-based executive functioning activities are suitable for most ages but are geared more toward adults. A great resource to give for use with school counselors, teachers, and parents.
Other free worksheets
Up for a little celebration? Throughout Fall 2025, we’re celebrating 25 years since HappyNeuron was founded! Work on attention and processing speed in this mini packet, with a celebratory theme! Inspired by our digital exercise, Under Pressure, you’ll be asked to pay attention to stimuli on the screen, and determine whether they are higher or lower than preceding stimuli. This exercise targets processing speed, spatial awareness, and attention skills. These skills are vital for daily tasks like quickly finding an item in a full closet, and paying attention to obstacles and signs while driving.
This mini packet is great for adolescents and adults working on processing speed skills.
Included inside: 3 pages of attention/processing speed worksheets, videos, and bridging questions.
If you like this mini packet, make sure to check out our other attention worksheets today! →
With this Toxic Productivity Checklist, you can get to know your client’s relationship with productivity, and use it to inform your treatment plan! We offer a variety of session resources for clinicians to use in order to get to know their clients, take notes, provide supplemental activities, and more.
Perfect for fostering growth, mindfulness, and organization, our session resources printables are ideal for use in therapy sessions and as take-home activities. Download and print as needed to support your clients’ journey toward well-being and personal development.
What’s included:
- 1 PDF file which includes Toxic Productivity checklist, and recommended intervention strategies
Work on visual working memory with this adventurous camping-themed mini packet! Inspired by our digital exercise, Chunking, you’ll be asked to recall images of camping items within a grid, and then place them correctly on a blank grid. This exercise targets visual working memory, which is necessary for real-life tasks like cooking, grocery shopping, driving, and much more. It also targets visual-spatial skills which are necessary for navigating the world, remembering where you placed objects, and more!
This mini packet is great for kids and adolescents, and anyone working on visual and working memory skills.
Included inside: 12 pages of visual working memory worksheets, and bridging questions.
If you like this mini packet, make sure to check out our other memory worksheets today! →
Practice memorizing visual sequences with this ice cream-themed hybrid mini packet. Inspired by our digital exercise, Find Your Way, you’ll need to remember a path between different colors of ice cream scoops on the screen, and then recall them in order to construct a delicious ice cream cone in the worksheet packet. Working between screen and paper provides an extra challenge for exercising your memory!
The cognitive skills used in this exercise are used for daily tasks such as creating a to do list in a logical order, or remembering the steps to a recipe.
Included inside: 6 pages of visual memory worksheets, videos, and bridging questions.
If you like this mini packet, make sure to check out our other memory worksheets today! →
So what exactly is executive function?
Executive functioning is a cognitive skill that allows us to manage different aspects of our lives! It is an advanced cognitive skill that relies on multiple different aspects of cognition to operate. Executive function requires the following cognitive skills: attention, problem-solving, flexible thinking, working memory, self-control, and even emotional control. Without executive functioning skills, managing day-to-day tasks, staying safe, and getting things done become harder. Behavioral inhibition or emotional inhibition is part of executive functioning too. When an individual has a weaker executive function ability, individuals may have trouble with planning, prioritization, organization, and staying on a task.