Hidden Pictures Workbook, Ages 5-Up, playful learning, sharp-eyed focus and observation, visual discernment, imagination

Get 96 hidden picture puzzles, 96 pages of learning fun! With colorful, imaginative illustrations that feature critter friends ranging from a purple aardvark helicopter pilot to a tiger TV news anchor (reporting on a gerbil stampede) to alligators in outer space, learning just doesn't get much more fun than this! The more kids look, the more they'll find, and the sharper they'll get. This Hidden Pictures, an Activity Zone Book, will keep kids fully occupied as they hone their eye-hand coordination, attention to detail, and visual identification skills, while improving their overall readiness skills. What a great way to reinforce children s natural curiosity and desire to discover!

Visual sleuthing is about much more than simply finding things, though that alone is definitely important. Looking hard to find objects tucked away in unexpected places builds important skills. It sharpens visual discrimination and object recognition, and on a related note, the ability to discern objects against a background, even a busy one--sometimes called figure ground perception. In turn, these types of skills are important in learning to identify letters and numbers. These skills also help kids keep their place on a page or board and help just in general, to be able to find one thing amid other things competing for attention. Just possibly one of the absolutely most valuable skills that hidden pictures develop is persistence, the ability to keep going and get the problem solved even in the face of challenges, a follow-through skill that s valuable in countless situations!

Kids love color, characters, and 'room' to play. School Zone workbooks deliver all that and so much more. Almost 40 years ago the company responded to parents' need for tools to help reinforce in-school learning. Workbooks continue to be just the right combination of play and practice, making them excellent, teacher-created, parent-approved resources. Writing by hand fires up specific parts of a child's brain, improving a child's ability not only to remember what he or she learns, but to think of new ideas.

A Parent Guide inside the front cover of Hidden Pictures suggests ways to help parents work with kids, and Activities to Share inside the back cover offer up even more learning options, with fun activities that build basic skills in math, social studies, and language arts such as Tent Time, Alphabet Soup , Shadow Shapes, and much more. Perforated pages make great individual worksheets, and the whole workbook is excellent for tucking into a tote or backpack for take-anywhere 'analog' learning. Along with sharpening readiness skills, this Hidden Pictures Workbook also helps expand vocabulary and strengthen eye-hand coordination. Finding all the hidden pictures can be hard work, but just wait for the proud smiles when they discover the last one.


Provide hours of playful exploration, as kids turn the pages of a wonderful learning adventure with Hidden Pictures, an Activity Zone Workbook. Watch them master patience, persistence, and problem-solving with a little 'help' from a big pink pig in a mud bath and purple penguins snowboarding at top speed! These bold, beautiful scenes just might even lead to some creative storytelling! Who knew three short words--find and circle--could produce such big learning payoff?!