Following Directions Winter Coloring Activity for Listening Comprehension Skills

Are your Kindergarten or 1st-grade students not listening or struggling to follow your directions? Do they need to practice reading and following written directions? Use these no-prep, Winter, follow the directions pages to promote fine motor, listening, writing and reading skills. Your students will enhance their direction-following skills by completing coloring pages based on step-by-step oral or written instructions. Students must listen to or read the directions to complete the coloring sheets correctly. The teacher-led oral direction pages can be easily modified into engaging lessons for following 2-step or multistep directions or instructions. Great for fun days, centers, winter solstice celebrations, morning work, special education, workstations, occupational or speech therapy activities, and early finishers or they can be left for a substitute. Just print the worksheets for your students and they are ready to go.

What Skills are Students Working on With these Following Instructions Activity PDFs?

• listening comprehension
• fine motor skills
• visual-spatial skills
• visual motor skills
• reading writing and more!

What is Included in the Following Instructions Activity PDFs?

Three styles of coloring pages are included:

1. directions on a separate page that can be read to the group by an adult or peer.
2. directions on the page for students to read and complete.
3. students write their own directions for a peer to follow

There are several styles of each design. Check out the preview images to see all that is included.

Ideas to Modify the Following Instructions Activities.

• Directions are one to two steps, but you can easily add a step to the listening directions.
• Focus on spatial skills and highlight the directions that include prepositions.
• Make it a gross motor brain break with an added exercise to complete after you give the directions.

When is a Good Time to Use These Activities?

Great for fun days, centers, workstations, morning work, special education lessons, occupational or speech therapy sessions, early finishers or they can be left for a substitute. Just print the worksheets for your students and they are ready to go.

OT Tip:  Break crayons in half, and use short pencils to promote a fingertip grasp when students are coloring, drawing, or writing.

These Winter following directions worksheets can be printed for use at school or can be sent home. Another option is using Easel by TpT. I have created an interactive version of this resource you can assign to your students within your digital classroom. Students can use the pen and highlighting tool to complete the activity on a screen. Once you purchase the resource you will have access to both the PDF and Easel files.

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About the author: As an occupational therapy assistant, I create resources to help students develop essential fine motor, visual perceptual, gross motor, and social-emotional skills, especially in today's challenging times. My goal is to support students in building the foundation they need for success in the classroom and in life. Cindy@CreativeCOTA.com