Following Directions Coloring Page Activities Listening Comprehension Skills

Are your students having trouble listening and following directions? Do your occupational therapy students need practice with handwriting or reading and following written directions? Use these no-prep, follow the directions worksheets coloring pages to promote fine motor, handwriting, listening, and reading skills. Your students will enhance their direction-following skills by completing coloring pages based on step-by-step oral or written instructions. 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, morning work, centers, 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 and more!

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 direction.

Key Features of This Digital PDF Resource

• No-Prep Worksheets: Ready-to-use coloring pages for fine motor, handwriting, listening, and reading skills. Just print and go.
• Teacher-Led Directions: Easily modified for 2-step or multi-step direction lessons.
• Versatile Use Cases: Ideal for fun days, morning work, centers, special education, therapy sessions, early finishers, and substitutes.
• Flexible Modifications: Add steps to directions, focus on spatial skills, or include gross motor exercises for brain breaks.
• Year-Round Usability: Great for back-to-school and reinforcing direction-following throughout the year.
• Simple Visuals: 8 scenes with 12 directions each: fish tank, outer space, pirates, camping, zoo, farm, beach, and picnic. Adapt directions for multi-step challenges.

When is a Good Time to Use These Activities?

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

A great back-to-school activity where students must listen to your directions to complete the coloring pages correctly. Use throughout the year to show the importance of following directions. You can also have a peer or the student read the directions as well. Students work on following step-by-step oral and written directions.

Pictures have very simple backgrounds for context. 12 directions/questions are included for each of the 8 images on a separate sheet of paper with a picture for reference. You decide which directions work best for your students. You can combine two directions and give them as multi-step if your students can handle the challenge.

Scenes include a fish tank, outer space, pirates, camping, zoo, farm, beach, and a picnic. Great for classroom brain breaks when you add a gross motor movement after each direction.

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

These 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. Cindy@CreativeCOTA.com