The Best Seek & Find Games (Hidden Object Games for Kids)

Seek & Find and Hidden Object games are great for kids to increase awareness, focus and cognitive skills. Check out our list of exciting Seek & Find games below!

Where’s Waldo Books

Martin Handford’s Where’s Waldo? books have entertained children and adults for years and have become classic, must-haves in the seek and find games / hidden picture genre!

Did you know that Each Waldo picture takes Martin several months to draw?

“As I work my way through a picture, I add Waldo when I come to what I feel is a good place to hide him…”

Martin Handford
Where’s Waldo: The Ultimate Waldo Watcher Collection Available from Amazon here…

Find It Tubes

Each Find It Tube comes filled with brightly colored plastic pellets in which to search for themed hidden objects.

Each tube is secured on both ends with wood or color-coordinated plastic caps. All games have the hidden items listed on the capped end and come with a tear-off pad to check off items as they are found.

Find It Tubes are great as a solo game or for groups to teach shapes, colors, classifications, fine motor skills, visual recognition skills, and focus.

This super simple seek and find game is perfect for keeping busy while at doctor’s office waiting rooms, for classroom activities or recreational therapy groups!

Check out the many variations of Find It Tubes Available from Amazon Prime here…

Pictureka (Board Game)

Pictureka is an exciting seek and find board game where you must find things fast and find them first! If you find the object from your mission you keep the card for that mission.

The player with the most cards wins!

Get together with family and friends for laugh-out-loud fun with a hilarious hunt for ridiculous pictures. Great for ages 6 and up!

Pictureka is Available from Amazon Prime here…

Spot It

Develop attention, visual perception, speech language, and fine motor skills with this fast-paced seek and find matching game.

Spot It! Is fast to learn and teach, and its portable tin makes it the perfect game to take anywhere.

As it has grown in popularity, this instant classic game has been made into many variations, themes and characters including Outdoors, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, Paw Patrol, Frozen etc…

Check out the many variations of Spot It! Available from Amazon Prime here…

Found It! (Scavenger Hunt Cards)

Found it! is an exciting game that helps children learn as they go on the most exciting ‘Search & Find’ with prompts like Can you find..”Something with a pattern? Something smaller than your palm?” etc.!

Players must shout “FOUND IT!” as soon as they get their hands on the object. The first one to win 7 cards wins the game!

This super fun seek and find game keeps children engaged for hours and boosts their observation & logical reasoning skills. (Perfect for ages 4-7.)

Found It! Scavenger Hunt Card Game Available from Amazon Prime here…

I Spy Books

The immensely popular I Spy series presents photographed setups of carefully arranged objects with riddles underneath each picture that encourage children to find particular objects in the photo.

This series entry includes photographs that the author and photographer decided were their favorites from previous books, and substitutes more difficult riddles for the original ones, challenging children who like a truly vigorous search.

As in earlier books, a list of riddles at the end gives young seekers the opportunity to work backwards and find the picture that matches the riddle. (Susan Dove Lempke)

I SPY Gold Challenger Picture Riddle Book is Available from Amazon here…

I Spy Eagle Eye Game

I SPY combines beautiful photographs, familiar object collections and rhyming riddles to create brain teasing puzzles kids and adults can’t resist.

Players use their eagle eyes to spot an item on their card that’s also on their game board. The first to find it and ring the bell wins the round!

This seek and find game encourages visual discrimination, observation and memorization. (For 2 to 4 players, recommended for ages 5 and up.)

I Spy Eagle Eye Find-It Game is Available from Amazon Prime here…

Eye Found It!

Disney’s Eye Found It Game helps children practice their focus, memory, object identification, matching skills, and promotes cooperation and teamwork all while engaging with characters they already know and love!

Eye Found It is not just a great game for kids, but is also perfect for adults to join in on the fun. It takes just 15 minutes to play, and less than 5 minutes to teach.

seek and find games Eye Found It Disney hidden object game packaging cover
Eye Found It! Available from Amazon Prime here…

The Hardest Hidden Picture Book Ever

Hidden Picture puzzles just got even harder!

This collection includes all types of challenging Hidden Pictures puzzles, including photo puzzles, puzzles without clues, unscrambles, and more.

Find more than 1,500 objects hidden in 125+ pages of puzzles.

A great gift for anyone who loves seek and find games and a puzzling challenge!

hidden picture seek and find games book cover
The Hardest Hidden Picture Book Ever is Available from Amazon Prime here…

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