Hidden Objects

A dense scene of overlapping pictures, tipped and resized so nothing looks the same twice, with a key strip along the bottom showing what to search for. Every target is guaranteed to stay at least two-thirds visible, so the hunt is hard but never unfair. Turn the counts on in the key and a picture can hide two or three times over, which is the version that keeps older children busy longest.

Age

ages 5–12

Answer key

Included, free

Skills

visual discriminationconcentrationpattern recognition

What you can change

• Pictures to find

  3–8 pictures

• How crowded the scene is

  Sparse, Normal, Packed

• Show how many of each

• Write the names in the key

• Every page also takes the book's language, page size, theme and pictures.