Who’s on the Bus? Visual Discrimination & Matching Activity

Make visual matching and sequencing hands-on with this Who’s on the Bus? Visual Discrimination & Matching Activity! Students look at a bus pattern card and recreate the same arrangement using the individual kid pieces and large school bus mat.

With 40 pattern cards and 11 kid pieces, students practice visual discrimination, matching, sequencing, attention to detail, and following a visual model.

Perfect for special education, autism, ABA therapy, preschool, kindergarten, early intervention, occupational therapy, task boxes, independent work, and homeschool.

What’s Included

• 40 Who’s on the Bus? Pattern Cards
• 1 Large School Bus Mat with 4 windows
• 11 Individual Kid Cards
• Directions for preparing and using the activity

How to Use

Students choose a pattern card, identify the four children shown, and place the matching kid pieces in the correct order on the large bus.

Laminate the pieces for repeated use. Add hook-and-loop dots if desired, or simply place the kid cards directly on the bus.

Need sets for multiple students? Print extra copies of the bus mat and kid-card pages.

Skills Practiced

Visual Discrimination • Matching • Sequencing • Following a Visual Model • Visual Attention • Fine Motor Skills • Hand-Eye Coordination • Independent Work

Easy to Differentiate

Start with only a few kid choices for beginning learners, then increase to all 11 kid pieces as students become more independent.

Just print, cut, laminate, and start matching!

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