What is "How Many of Each Are There?"

A counting worksheet where children identify and count each stimulus in mixed drawings, with items becoming more similar as levels increase. Available in digital and printable paper versions.

What skill does this activity train: selective attention?

Trains selective attention by requiring focus on target items while ignoring distractors, improving the ability to maintain concentration amid similar, competing stimuli.

Which formats are available: digital and paper?

Offered in both digital and paper formats. Paper content for children is being prioritized to expand printed activity options and variety.

How many levels and phases are included?

Includes five levels—basic, easy, medium, difficult, and advanced—each containing five phases that increase task complexity and stimulus similarity.

Is there an adult version?

Yes. An adult-oriented version titled "Count Stimuli by Type" features a design tailored for adults while maintaining the same selective attention challenge.

Children’s worksheet for practicing selective attention

Q: What languages is the worksheet available in?

Available in Spanish, English, French, Portuguese, Catalan, German, and Italian to support multilingual use.

Discover our activity to work on selective attention! It’s called “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 of each stimulus there are.

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

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

What does this activity work on?

This activity works on 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 paper content

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

And we want to tell you that we are prioritizing the creation of more children’s content on paper due to your requests. We want you to have more children’s activities with more varied content on paper.

Application in daily life

This activity, besides being very fun, can be applied to many real-life tasks, for example, counting how many candies of each there are without losing track, or counting the forks, knives and spoons needed when setting the table according to the number of diners.