Brain & Body Challenges

Look • Think • Trace • Match

Pick a starting point

For grown-ups

These playful activities practise looking, matching, tracing, patterns and hand-eye coordination. Let your child work at their own pace. Help only when they need it.

One challenge is on screen at a time, eight to a sitting, mixed from twelve kinds of activity. Each sitting is dealt fresh, and recent challenges are held back so the same ones do not keep coming up.
Start, Keep Going and Big Challenge change how long the patterns and paths are and how alike the choices look. Start low and move up when it feels easy.
Nothing is scored or timed. A miss gets “Almost — look again”, a hint is always one tap away, and tracing is forgiving: staying roughly on the path is enough.
This is practice and play. It is not an assessment, and it is not a treatment or a therapy.

Printable worksheets

Twelve A4 sheets, four activities each, built from the same challenges. Best printed in colour.

The activities

Follow the path: Trace a winding road from a traveller to where they are going, or follow a tangled line with your eyes.
Trace the line: Trace waves, zigzags, loops, spirals and more, starting at the dot.
Copy the pattern: Build the same row of pictures, one piece at a time.
What comes next?: Look at a repeating row and pick what comes next.
Find the same: Find the one that is exactly the same: shape, colour, way round and size.
Match them up: Join each picture to the one it goes with: the same, its home, its number or its shadow.
Left or right?: Arrows, animals, cars and hands that point or face left or right.
Shapes: Trace a shape, finish a shape, or find the shape that is asked for.
Odd one out: Tap the one that is different.
Same or different?: Look at two pictures and say whether they are the same.
Finish the picture: Choose the half that finishes the picture.
Remember it: Look at a short row, hide it, and remember one of the pictures. Show it again any time.

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70 challenges in 12 kinds, and 12 printable worksheets. Nothing is scored or timed. This is practice and play, not an assessment.

Brain & Body Challenges

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