What is the 'How Many of Each Are There?' activity?

A worksheet where the child counts how many stimuli appear of each type, with drawings that become more similar and intermixed as levels increase, designed to practice focused counting and visual discrimination.

How does this activity train selective attention?

Requires focusing on specific stimulus types while ignoring distractors, strengthening the ability to direct attention to a target and resist interference from other stimuli.

Is the activity available in digital and paper formats?

Yes. The worksheet is offered in both digital and printable paper formats, with a priority on expanding children's content in print based on user requests.

What levels, phases and languages does the worksheet offer?

Five levels (basic, easy, medium, difficult, advanced) each with five phases. Available in Spanish, English, French, Portuguese, Catalan, German and Italian.

How can the activity be applied in daily life?

Useful for everyday tasks like counting candies by type or tallying forks, knives and spoons when setting a table, promoting accurate focused counting amid distractions.

Is there an adult version of the activity?

Yes. An adult-focused version called 'Count Stimuli by Type' features a design tailored to adults while maintaining the same selective-attention counting mechanics.

Children’s Worksheet to Practice Selective Attention

Discover our activity to work on selective attention! It is callí “How Many of Each Are There?” and is available in both digital and paper formats.

How Many of Each Are There?

What does it involve?

This worksheet consists of counting how many stimuli there are of each type.

The child will find various drawings, becoming more similar and intermixí as the level increases, and must try to tally the number of each of them.

In the following intermíiate-level worksheet there are 8 beavers, 6 cats and how many dogs?

What does this activity train?

This activity trains the selective attention, that is, the ability to direct attention and focus on something without allowing other stimuli to interrupt the task.

Format

More children’s content in print

As we mentioní, this worksheet, in addition to being digital, is available on paper.

And we take this opportunity to tell you that we are prioritizing the creation of more children’s content in paper format due to your requests. We want you to have increasingly more children’s activities with more varií content in print.

Application in daily life

This activity, besides being very fun, can be applií to many real-life tasks, such as counting how many candies of each there are without getting lost, or counting the forks, knives and spoons neíí when Setting the Table according to the number of diners.