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Free, Printable Hidden Picture Puzzles for Kids

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These hidden pictures for kids are going to be something your kids don’t just like but love. Besides being fun, hidden pictures can help improve a child’s observation skills and attention to detail.

Whether you’re looking for printable hidden pictures or online interactive hidden pictures, look below for a list of places where you can find hidden pictures for kids.

Some of these hidden pictures are very easy and are a great way to help younger children learn to observe and work on their counting. Older kids will love the more complicated puzzles where there are multiple items to be found.

Hidden Pictures Online Games

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Highlights Hidden Pictures has a ton of free hidden pictures for kids available. Note that these hidden pictures can only be completed online, there’s no way to print them.

Interactive options like zooming into a certain area of the puzzles, hiding the objects list, and getting hints, really make these hidden picture puzzles unique.

Use your mouse to click on the object you’ve found in the Highlights hidden picture. The object will be colored in on the hidden picture. You can use the Zoom feature to zoom in on certain areas of the puzzle.

Below the hidden picture, you’ll see how many objects you’ve found out of the total number of hidden objects in the pictures. Use the Hint button if you need a hint to find a hidden object.

For Kids Photos

Happy kids at elementary school

Top view non binary kids playing with a colorful game

The hands of the child who smeared

Children playing on grass

Classmates friends bag school education

Banner with a surprised children peeking at the edge

Beautiful little blonde girl smiles winking, posing, touching face with her hands in pink cute dress. child looking happy and delighted. copy space.

Dreamy cheerful happy little girl with blond hair, clasp hands together joyfully cannot wait outstanding event, close eyes smiling dreamy, feeling overjoy and happiness, stand white wall

Banner with a surprised children peeking at the edge

Smiley little boy isolated on pink

Little boy smiling happiness paper craft arts rocket studio portrait

Smiling friends hugging in the playground

Little girl megaphone positive shoot

Cute little child in a summer field with a kite

Question mark icon thinking of solution

Little kids cheering while holding a white board

Amazed cute little kid see wonderful thing, clasp hands joyfully excited and admiration look camera, smiling broadly amused, gazing entertained and surprised, receive cool gift, white wall

Pretty clever little girl, child with blond hairstyle in yellow t-shirt and overalls hold something on palm, introduce product blank white copy space, smiling joyful, brag what she got b-day present

Actions

Pictures of people doing things, Verb words

action- kick, punch, strike, jump, block

action- throw, catch, shoot, mark, block

action fall, hold, throw, pin, chop action- jump, dunk, bounce

action- tee-off, drive, putt, chip.

action- throw, catch, run, field, slide,tag, pitch, bat, umpire, play

action – sow, milk, feed, plow, water, harvest

Duck Walk, Dusk, Eat, Eat oys, Edit, Exhale, Exit, Explain, Eye Contact, Fall

Feed, Fight, Fingerpaint, Flush, Flutist, Focus, Forest

Furious, Gentle Touches, Get Dressed, Give, Grocer, Gymnastics, Hair Dryer, Haircut

Hand in Pants, Hands up, Hang, Headbutt, Hear, Here, Hi, Hide, High

High Five, Hike, History Book, Hold, Homework, Hoola Hoop, Hop, Hot, Hot, Hug, Ignore

Ignore, In, Infinity Walk, Inhale, Is, Itch, Jack, Jack Fell Down, Jet, Jig, Jill, Jump, Jump Rope, Jumping Jack, Kangaroo Jump, Kick

Lather, laundry, Leaning, Leave, Lie, Lights on the Bus, Line Dance, Listen, Little Miss Muffet, Log Roll

Lord Leaping, Loud, Lunch, Magnetic, Mailman, Mess, Mine, Mirror, Mixing, Mop, Mouth, Music Time,

Assist, Avoid, Baby, Back bend, Baking, Balance, Balance Beam, Balance Board

My turn, Napkin, No, Nod, Noisy, NoRolling, One Leg, Out, Painting,

Pants Down, Pants Up, Papperwork, Pat, Pat Head, Pat Head Rub Tummy, Pat Tablek, Pay, Peanut Ball

Peel, People on the bus, Pet, Pinata, Ping Pong, Ping Pong Paddies, Play, Play Blocks, Please, Pledge, Pockets

Poem, Poke, Pommel Horse, Pop, Potty, Pour, Pray, Pull, Pull Hair, Push, Put Away

Put Away, Put Coat Away, Put on Coat, Put on Gloves, Put on Hat, Put Shoes Away, Quiet, Raise Hand

Raise Hand, Reach, Read, Reading, Reading Buddies, Relax

Remember, Repeat, Reward, Ride a Tricycle, Rider, Rings, Rinse Toothbrush, Rip, Rise, Rocking Boat, Roll, Roller Racer, Round Seesaw, Row

Rub Tummy, Run, Running, Scared, Scooter, Scooter Board, Scraps, Scream, Scuba, Diver, Scuba Diver, Secret, See, Seesaw

Shake, Shampoo, Share, Shatter, Shopper,Shout, Shrug, Shut the Door, Sick, Sign Language, Singing, Sip, Sit

Sitting, Skip, Sled, Sled, Sledding, Sleep, Slip, Slouch, Smash, Snow Angel, Snowball Fight

Ball Therapy, Bathe, Be, Bear Walk, Bend, Bent Over, Bite, Bite Toys, Blindfolded

Soap, Sorry, Spanish Class, Spill, Spitting, Splash, Split, Squeeze, Stand, Stare, Steal.

Step, Stir, Stomp, Stomp Feet, Stop Sign, Story Time, Stretch, Strong, Students, Suck, Sway, Sweep

Thinking, Thought Bubbles, Throw, Throw Sand, Throw Toy, Tickle, Tier Shoe, Tip Toe, To do List, Tongue on Side, Tongue Out, Tongue up, Too Loud

Toss, Touch, Toward, Trampoline, Trash Can, Tuck, Tug O War, Tumbling After, Tunnel, Turn off, Twist, Unpack Lunch, Unscrew

Want, Wash Face, Wash Hair, Wash Hands, Water Fountain, Wave, Wet Hair, Wheelbarrow Walk

Wheels on the bus, Wiggle, Windows on the bus, Winner, Wipe, Wipers on the Bus,

Wondering, Write, Yell, Yoga, Your Turn, Zipper

Blow, Blow Nose, Board Game, Book, Bounce, Break, Break ticket, Broke his crown, Broken, Broken Glass, Broken Heart

Brush, Brush Teeth, Build, Calm, Car Crash, Car Wash, Care, Carpenter, Cartwheel

Cashier, Catch, Cheerleader, Chess, Child, Choices, Clap, Clean, Clean Pumpkin

Combat Crawl, Come, Confused, Conversation, Cookie Cutter, Cough, Crab Walk, Cracked, Cracked Glass, Crush, Cry, Custodian

Door Holder, Doors on the bus, Drafting, Draw, Dress, Dress up, Drink, Driver on the Bus, Drool, Drop, Drummer, Dry Hands,

10 Super Fun Guessing Games for Kids

Guessing games are great to use as warmers, fillers, and review activities. Not only are they a lot of fun, but they are also fantastic for learning vocabulary and grammar.

On this page we list the 10 super fun guessing games for kids. Although these activities are mainly aimed at young learners, many of these guessing game ideas can be easily adapted to use with adults and teenagers.

For more classroom game ideas, check out our other post, 10 Incredibly Fun Vocabulary Activities For ESL Kids.

The Best 10 Guessing Games for Kids

1: Guess the Word Games

Whichever topic you are teaching, a simple guess the word game, although simple, can be very effective. Show students some flashcards and ask them to repeat after you. Once students have practiced enough, choose one flashcard, and don’t show the students. Then ask them to try to guess what the word is while using the target expression.

For example, if you teaching animal words, when students guess they can ask the teacher ‘Is it an elephant?’, and the teacher can respond ‘Yes, it is. / No, it isn’t.’.

2: Hidden Picture Guessing Games

In this guessing game there is a picture hidden behind some color squares. As you click the squares the image is slowly revealed and students must try to guess what it is.

This guess the picture game is a great way to introduce or review new words with students and can be used with any vocabulary. For hidden picture PPT games on many topics, and an editable template, click here.

3: Guess the Picture (Pictionary)

This simple guessing game idea needs little to no prep. All you need for this game is something to draw on. To play as a whole class, ask a student to draw something on the board from the lesson and ask students to guess what the picture is of.

To make it more fun, divide the class into two / three teams. Give each team 30 seconds or so to guess as many pictures as they can. This game is a lot of fun and young learners especially love showing off their artistic skills.

4: Guess the Mystery Object

Using real objects in the classroom is a great way to connect the vocabulary and grammar that students are learning to the real world. A great way to do that is with this guess the object game. To play, you need a bag or a box to put the mystery objects in.

Invite students one by one to come up to the front of the class and reach into the bag/box and feel the object inside. Without looking at the object, they must try to guess what the mystery object is. This can lead to some hilarious guesses! This activity is great for both kids and older ESL students.

5: Online Guessing Games

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In these online guessing games, students must use ‘Telepathy’ to read the teacher’s mind and find out the answer. Of course, your students can’t really read minds, but kids love pretending that they can.

In these guessing games each answer as two possible answers and students must choose ONE and write it down. If they get it correct, they get a point. If they get it wrong, they don’t. Many online guessing games can be found on our Activity Videos page.

This game can be played individually or in pairs / small teams. For a Telepathy game PPT template, and a printable answer worksheet, click here.

6: ‘I Spy’ Guessing Games

When you were a child you probably played a variation of this game at one time or another. In the classic (British) version of I Spy, one person would look around and choose an object that they can see and then say ‘I spy with my little eye something beginning with (b).’. At which point the other people must try to guess what object beginning with the letter b he/she is thinking of.

This kind of guessing game can be used in your English class to review many different words and topics. For example, if teaching colors, one student can look around and choose an object and then say ‘I see something (green)’. The other students must then guess what green thing they are thinking of.

Or, if you are teaching adjectives, one student can look around and choose something and then describe it using adjectives. For example, ‘I see something big and heavy.’.

7: ‘Act It Out’ Guessing Game (Charades)

In the classic version of charades people would use actions instead of words to act out the title of a movie, book, play, or song. In the English classroom, this kind of activity can be used to review key vocabulary and expressions that students have learned.

To play, write down the key words / phrases from the lesson on pieces of paper and put them all in a small container. Then divide the class into 2/3 teams. One person from each team will choose a piece of paper and act out the word without speaking or making any noise. If the team guesses correctly, then they get a point.

20 Picture-Based Writing Prompts and Ideas for Kids

A picture is worth a thousand words, and that’s certainly the case with visual writing prompts!

Be it a simple object or a fantastical scene, a picture is all it takes to spark a child’s imagination.

That’s why I love picture writing prompts for kids who are learning how to write.

They help alleviate the burden of not knowing where to start while providing creative flexibility for students to pen their own stories.

I especially like to use picture prompts for teaching descriptive writing. They encourage children to focus, study, and evaluate an image with all its colors and scenery, which naturally sparks more descriptive text.

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What Is Picture Prompt Writing?

If you’re unfamiliar with picture prompts, they are a type of writing prompt that uses an image to start a story.

Students then create a story, using the picture as either the setting or simply a jumping off point.

The benefit of visual writing prompts is that it gives students a place to start. Not only that, it encourages them to use more adjectives and write in more detailed sentences.

Most students need some guidance beyond “write about this.” The again, too many details can be overwhelming.

Picture prompts give kids just enough information to act as a stress-free starting point, and from there, they can tell their own stories.

They aren’t necessary for every writing activity, but they’re a fun and simple way to spark creativity—and they often prompt students to think (and write!) outside the box.

How to Use Picture Writing Prompts

Students who struggle to write may naturally gravitate towards picture prompts.

In fact, picture writing for kids is particularly helpful for reluctant writers who struggle with expressing themselves in words.

The prompts can be paired with any number of writing activities, from freewriting to journal writing to creative writing.

Choosing pictures for kids to write about will largely depend on the skill level and age of your student.

As a general rule of thumb, you want to use the most interesting pictures for writing prompts you can find.

As kids get older, their writing world expands, so their prompts can be more in-depth and structured.

You can even try using two unrelated prompts and have your students develop a story that incorporates both perspectives.

Here are a few more specific ways to use visual writing prompts:

1. Choose pictures that aren’t so clear-cut. Ambiguous images lead to more brainstorming, providing plenty of room for interpretation and creativity.

2. Give students ample time to look at and study the image.

3. Give them 5-10 minutes to write everything they can think about when they look at the picture.

4. Use the 5 Ws to start the conversation. This encourages young writers to look closely for clues about a possible storyline.

5. You can also give them a series of pictures for story writing. This is a great option for older elementary up to middle school students.

As you can see, picture prompts are pretty open-ended. You can tweak and use them whichever way works best for your student.

Want to try using picture prompts?

We’ve provided 20 creative, engaging visual prompts below.

20 Picture Writing Prompts for Kids

The IceBreaker

The Gardener and the Magical Plant

Adventures Of The Dive Club

The Lion and the Lost Lambs

Runaway Cow

Sunset at the Meadow

A Kitty of a Different Kind

The Missing Plane

Best Friends in a Snowstorm

The Icky Sticky Ice Cream Cone

A Bug’s Life

The Secret Spy Frog

The Surprise of a Lifetime

The Hidden House in the Woods

Beneath the Waves

The Boy and the Giant Roly-Poly Pumpkin

The “Cat-tastrophe” Shower

World-Famous PupStar

The Sinking House

The Dinosaurs and the Broccoli Forest

Download and Print FREE Picture Prompts (PDF)

No matter what grade your kids are in, they will love these fun (and often funny!) elementary picture writing prompts.

The concepts are suitable for a wide age range and can be used by first graders all the way up to middle school students.

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Now when you hear the dreaded, “I have nothing to write about!” just pull out these picture prompts, provide pencil and paper, and let your young writers create!