Free Executive Functioning Worksheets
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Free Executive Functioning Worksheets
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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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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
Exercise memory and social cognition with this mini packet! Inspired by our digital exercise, I Remember You!, you’ll memorize people’s faces and names, and then match names to faces on the following page. This particular mini packet is designed to be more simple than usual, for individuals with more severe memory deficits. These skills contribute to daily tasks and interactions that involve remembering who people are.
This mini packet is great for seniors, or anyone working on memory skills and social cognition.
Included inside: 12 pages of memory and social cognition worksheets and bridging questions.
If you like this mini packet, make sure to check out our other memory worksheets today! →
Exercise verbal memory and lexical skills with this mini packet! Inspired by our digital exercise, Split Words, you’ll see fragments of words that need to be combined. Using emotion-themed words, this exercise targets both spelling and verbal recall, requiring you to visually scan the page, recognize fragments of words, and combine them together. These skills contribute to daily tasks that involve language and visual scanning, such as finding the right medication in a cabinet, understand a sign you can only partially see while navigating.
This mini packet is great for adults working on verbal memory skills.
Included inside: 5 pages of verbal memory worksheets and bridging questions.
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Exercise working memory and attention skills with this mini packet! Inspired by our digital exercise, Displaced Characters, you’ll observe characters such as letters from different languages on either side of a page, then be asked to find which characters are on one side but not the other. This exercise targets memory and attention skills, requiring you to keep the characters in mind as you visually scan the page. These skills contribute to daily tasks that involve memory and visual scanning, such as finding important information in a document or selecting the correct medications to pull from a cabinet.
This mini packet is great for adults working on verbal and spatial memory skills.
Included inside: 6 pages of memory and attention worksheets and bridging questions.
If you like this mini packet, make sure to check out our other memory worksheets today! →
Exercise verbal memory and spatial memory skills with this mini packet! Inspired by our digital exercise, Words, Where Are You?, you’ll observe words in a grid, then be asked to place words from a word bank into a grid from memory. This exercise targets memory and spatial skills, requiring you to not only recall words, but also their locations. These skills contribute to daily tasks that involve verbal and spatial memory, such as recalling which medications to take or where to find items in the grocery store.
This mini packet is great for adults working on verbal and spatial memory skills.
Included inside: 6 pages of verbal memory worksheets, 3 videos, and bridging questions.
If you like this mini packet, make sure to check out our other memory worksheets today! →
Exercise working memory and attention skills with this mini packet! Inspired by our digital exercise, Pay Attention, you’ll observe a pattern made up of shapes, then be asked to draw the pattern from memory. This exercise targets memory and attention skill, requiring you to not only recall information, but draw it. These skills contribute to daily tasks that involve working memory, such as writing down a phone number you just heard, or following a recipe.
This mini packet is great for adolescents and adults working on memory skills.
Included inside: 6 pages of working memory worksheets 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.