Free Executive Functioning Worksheets
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Free Executive Functioning Worksheets
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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.
If you like this mini packet, make sure to check out our other attention 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
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! →
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! →
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.
Explore the galaxy of words and enhance your cognitive abilities with this starry exercise packet. Dive into the challenge and watch as your planning and inhibition skills soar to new heights, all while enjoying the satisfaction of fitting words together in stellar fashion.
Included inside: 7 pages of executive function activities, and bridging questions.
If you like this mini, make sure to check out our other executive function worksheets today! →
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! →
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.