Download the worksheets (PDF)
Five ADHD worksheets for children in one free download: one sheet each for understanding their own ADHD, focus, organization, big feelings and friendships. A child works through them with a parent or therapist, one sheet at a time, in the order the packet sets out.
What this worksheet covers
The packet treats ADHD as a set of skills that can be practised rather than a problem to be told off for. Sheet 1 builds self-knowledge, sheets 2 and 3 cover the executive-function skills of starting a task and keeping track of belongings, sheet 4 covers emotional regulation, and sheet 5 covers friendship. Each sheet is one page and ends with a single change to try that week.
Four more worksheets on this topic
Sheet 1 is the one this page hands over first, because the rest are easier to use once a child can name what helps their own focus. The four sheets below build on it and can be given in any order after that.
Using these in session
Start with Getting to Know My ADHD and complete it together, so the child leaves with their own EASIER list rather than a general one. Send one sheet home per week and review the written answers at the next session. Sheets 2 and 3 pair well with a parent in the room, since a launch spot and a timer only work if the household agrees to them. Keep sheet 4 for a session with time to sit with it: naming a feeling at 8 to 10 is harder than it looks on the page.
What the download includes
Five printable pages, one per sheet, each with a short explanation at the top, a worked visual, space for the child to write, and a closing note for the adult. Every sheet cites the research it draws on and states that it is an educational tool rather than a diagnostic instrument.
Getting to Know My ADHD
Sheet 1. What makes focus harder and what makes it easier, as two lists the child fills in themselves, plus a moment this week when focus got hard, something their ADHD brain is good at, and who they will ask for help. Ends on one change to run for a week.
Staying Focused
Sheet 2. Chop one job that feels too big into three small steps, pick the smallest rather than the scariest, set a timer, then move and come back. The child writes the job, the three steps, their timer length and their break move.
Getting Organized
Sheet 3. One home for every important thing, and a launch spot checked at the same time each day. A table pairs homework, bag, water bottle and one thing that matters to them with where each one lives.
Big Feelings, Small Steps
Sheet 4. A 1 to 10 scale from calm through warming up to boiling, with early body signals, two things that cool them down at 4 to 7, and a written plan for what to do and who to tell at each size.
Making and Keeping Friends
Sheet 5. Friendship as a back-and-forth of turns, with the child naming the turn they find hardest – waiting, listening or starting – then one person to know better, an open question to ask them, and what to say when a turn goes wrong.
What the packet helps a child work on
- Understanding their own ADHD symptoms and triggers
- Self-reflection and awareness, without blame
- Strategies for starting a task and staying with it
- Organizational habits that live in the room rather than in memory
- Emotional regulation, caught early rather than at full size
- Building and keeping one steady friendship
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