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Pets Same and Different Games for Visual Discrimination

By Karen Cox | Affiliate Disclosure | Filed Under: Pets Theme

These Pets same and different games will help pre-k and kindergarten kids practice and build visual discrimination skills. Children need visual discrimination skills to help them identify letters and numbers, as well as distinguish the difference between similar letter shapes such as p, q, b, d.

Pets Same & Different Visual Discrimination Game

To play these visual discrimination games, just print these cards, laminate, and cut.

Children will take a card and look at all four pictures. They will find the one picture that is different (three pictures are the same). Children will mark the picture that’s different with a manipulative.

You can use almost any manipulative to cover the picture that’s different or you can have children clip the picture with a clothespin.

Manipulatives to use with this visual discrimination game

Manipulatives to use:

  • Clothespins
  • Plastic chips
  • Unifix cubes
  • Marker caps
  • Table scatter
  • Mini dog or cat erasers
  • Flat floral marbles

To download these same and different cards, click the download buttons below. There are two sets of dogs and two sets of cats. Each set has varying degrees of difficulty: some easy cards and some more difficult.

Note: These are free printables, just click to download.

Download the Dog Same & Different Cards:

Dog Same & Different Cards

 Download: Dog Set #1 
 Download: Dog Set #2 

Download the Cat Same & Different Cards:

Cat Same & Different Cards

 Download: Cat Set #1 
 Download: Cat Set #2 

Look here for more Visual Discrimination Printables!

Need more Pets Theme activities?

Pet Theme Printables

I have a big collection of printable math and literacy activities for a Pet Theme in my shop. There are 20 printable activities! Find out more about it by clicking this link: Pet Theme Printables. Be sure to click the Preview button on that page to see everything that’s included!

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11 Comments Tagged With: Visual Discrimination Printables

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Karen is the founder of PreKinders.com. She also works as a full-time Pre-K teacher in Georgia. Read more...

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  1. Renee says

    August 22, 2016 at 10:36 pm

    Thank you!? This is a great small group activity.

    Reply
  2. Tricia says

    August 22, 2016 at 11:08 pm

    Love these! Thank you! I am using Pets as one of my early studies.

    Reply
  3. Sarah says

    August 23, 2016 at 6:15 am

    Karen, you are so generous to make so many of your amazing resources available for free! While I would gladly pay money for your high-quality work, I certainly would not be able to afford to purchase many. Thank you for these great visual discrimination activities–they are exactly what I needed for my students and because they were free, I was able to get them all. I am so grateful.

    Reply
  4. Linda Bagzis says

    August 23, 2016 at 11:35 am

    Thanks for these visual discrimination cards, Karen!! I’ve also used your visual discrimination cards for apples and transportation. It’s very helpful to have differing levels of ability with these activities!
    I find that there are fewer resources available in this area than in math and literacy.

    Reply
  5. Jennifer says

    August 23, 2016 at 2:21 pm

    Thank you for your creativity! This is perfect for one of my Story time ideas!

    Reply
  6. Debra says

    August 24, 2016 at 12:57 am

    Thank for all the hard work and care you put in, what you share with us.

    Reply
  7. Tracy Blood says

    August 24, 2016 at 10:59 am

    I love the game….don’t care for the description….I don’t feel comfortable using the term discrimination … instead I use the term….differences

    Reply
    • Karen Cox says

      August 24, 2016 at 7:09 pm

      “Visual discrimination” is a correct educational term, but you can call it whatever you like.

      With the kids, I call it “Same and Different Game”.

      Reply
  8. Dorothy Hastings says

    August 31, 2016 at 7:27 am

    Hello Karen, thanks for sharing such a wonderful post. This will really help kids in development of their brain and they can learn while playing games. I am really looking forward to promote these kinds of activities.

    Reply
    • Karen Cox says

      August 31, 2016 at 7:35 pm

      Thanks, Dorothy!

      Reply
  9. Cristal Olsen says

    September 15, 2016 at 7:40 pm

    Your support is the reason, I am sane when it comes to teaching 14 students in a special education program for young learners. Thank YOU!

    Reply

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