Build A Garden Visual Discrimination & Listening Comprehension Puzzles

This hands-on garden-themed resource includes a garden bed mat, multiple pages of garden manipulatives, and task cards with garden-building challenges. It’s designed for flexible, repeat-use learning across a range of ages and skill levels.

Ways to Use This Resource:

Creative Play
Learners use the garden mat and manipulatives to design their own gardens. Encourage language and early math with prompts like:

• “How many flowers are planted in your garden?”
• “Are there more carrots or beets in your garden?”

Listening Comprehension
Place a garden mat and manipulatives in front of the learner and give oral directions, such as:

• “Place 3 carrots in your garden.”
• “Plant two purple flowers in your garden.”
  For an added challenge, include positional language:
• “Plant 3 lettuce along the side of your garden.”
• “Plant two carrots next to the lettuce.”
• “Plant 3 turnips under the carrots.”

Visual Discrimination Puzzles
Provide the garden mat, manipulatives, and puzzle anchor cards. Learners select a card and recreate the picture on their own mat, strengthening visual discrimination, attention to detail, and problem-solving skills.

This resource is part of the Garden Bundle.

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