Focus Detective: ADHD skills game for kids & teens, fun learn practical focus strategies

Turn focus practice into a mystery-solving adventure with Focus Detective—a printable ADHD skills game designed to help kids and teens explore attention, working memory and distraction-management strategies through play.

Players draw a Detective Mission, choose a Focus Strategy and study an illustrated investigation scene. After the scene is hidden, they record evidence, answer questions and reveal the picture to discover what they noticed, missed and remembered differently.

Rather than telling players to “just focus,” the game helps them experiment with practical strategies and identify the supports that work for their brain.

Skills practised:

• Selective and sustained attention
• Visual scanning
• Working memory
• Filtering distractions
• Following instructions
• Flexible strategy use
• Recognising when attention has shifted
• Returning attention to the task

What’s included:

• 11 illustrated Investigation Scenes
• 11 matching Evidence Question Sheets
• 24 Detective Mission Cards
• 24 Focus Strategy Cards
• Evidence Recording Sheet
• Detective Tokens
• Focus Meter
• Optional Distraction Challenge Cards
• Therapist answer guides
• Reflection and debrief worksheet
• Personal Focus Toolkit
• 10-page black-and-white facilitator guide

That’s 38 printable game pages plus a complete 10-page how-to-play guide.

Perfect for individual therapy, counselling groups, school wellbeing sessions, ADHD skill-building and executive-function support. The difficulty, viewing time and number of questions can easily be adapted for different ages and needs.

Simply download, print, cut and play. All resources are formatted for US Letter 8.5 × 11-inch paper, with no special props required.

Please note: This is a digital download. No physical product will be shipped.