141+ Categories for Concentration {Free Printables!}

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Do you wish you had easier access to a fun categories game to play this year? Well, look no further because I’ve created a concentration game free printable broken up into 4 different grade levels to make your therapy planning a breeze. Plus I’ve gathered over 141 categories for concentration so you can be your very own game maker.

In keeping with my preferred method of using real photos, I hope you enjoy the new look of these 4 free printables.

List of Categories – Concentration Categories

Ready to start practicing or simply in need of a category list of items to get started? The following categories are broken up by Beginner Level, Early Elementary Level, Late Elementary, and Middle/High School Level.

Fun Fact: Feel free to use these category lists to play a game of scattegories.

Beginner Level – Categories for Concentration Game

This list of different categories is a great list of target words for Kindergarten and 1st grade.

Animals	Birds	Body Parts	Colored Items (Blue)
Colored Items (Green)	Colored Items (Red)	Colored Items (Yellow)	Days of the Week
Desserts	Farm Animals	Foods	Fruits
Letter of the Alphabet	Numbers	Relatives	Shapes
Sounds	Things with Buttons	Things you Turn on/off	Toys
Vegetables	Wild Animals	Words	Zoo Animals

Early Elementary Level – Concentration Game Categories

This is a perfect list of groups of items to practice categories for 1st grade, 2nd grade, and 3rd grade.

Classroom Objects	Clothing	Colors	Colored Items (Orange)
Condiments	Ocean Animals	Drinks	Electronic Goods
Emotions	First Names	Jobs	Kitchen Utensils
Meats	Months	Musical Instruments	Names for a Dog
Nicknames	Pets	Places to Eat	Planets
Reptiles	School Subjects	Sports / Games	Television
Things at the Beach	Things with Pockets	Things with Wheels	Tools
Types of Transportation	Types of Breakfast	Ways to Exercise	Weather
School Supplies	Jungle Animals	Rooms of the House	Ice Cream

Late Elementary Level – Concentration Game Topics

Here is a list of items to practice categories for 4th grade, 5th grade, and 6th grade.

Bathroom Items	Bedroom Items	Buildings	Cars
Comic Book Heros	Dairy Foods	Famous Athletes	Fast Food
Furniture	Habitats	Holidays & Celebrations	Hotels
Junk Food	Languages	Liquids	Mammals
Materials	Movies	Nouns	Places
Presidents	Shops	United States in US	Textures
Things Found Under the Bed	Things Made of Fabric	Things Made of Glass	Things Made of Metal
Things Made of Wood	Things that Are Alive	Things that Fly	Things that Float
Things that Grow	Things that Use Batteries	Things that Use Electricity	Things you Hang on a Wall
Things you Plug in	Verbs	Ways to Cook	Grocery Store Items
Good Luck Items

Middle School and High School Levels – Topics for Concentration Game

This list of categories is perfect for your older students working on higher difficulty levels in 6th grade, 7th grade, 8th grade, 9th grade, 10th grade, 11th grade, or 12th grade.

Adjectives	Adverbs	Board Games	Careers
Cities	Clothing Stores	College Majors	Countries
Cuisine	Famous Musicians	Famous People	Female Names
Fictional Characters	Gardening	Gasses	Genres of Movies
Hobbies	Internal Organs	Languages	Males Names
Music Types	Nationalities	Personalities	Recipes
Restaurants	Song Titles	States	Technology
Terms of Endearment	Things Found on a Map	Things Found in a Mall	Things that Sink
Book Parts	Measure Units	Parts of Speech	Mythical Creatures
Ancient Civilizations	Famous Landmarks	Government Types	Mountain Ranges
Tall Tales Stories	Yoga Poses

Concentration Categories Game

This game is played just like the game concentration.

Start by placing the pictures facedown on the table.
Then have your students take turns trying to match an item to its category. (If they flip over the matching item and its category they get to keep the pair of cards. If they don’t make a match they turn the cards back over and let the next person have a turn.)
Then it’s the next students turn to try to make a match.
The student with the most matches at the end of the game wins!

*Grab your free sets + answer sheet at the end of this post.

More Category Games

If your looking for even more category games be sure to keep reading to learn how to play concentration 64 below (youtube video included).

You’ll also want to check out our category games for speech therapy as well as our 35+ activities to teach categories for speech therapy.

Categories for Concentration 64

If you’re looking for even more fun times you can use the above categories for concentration 64 topics.

If you’ve never played 64 concentration topics game before it’s a fun singing and clapping game that works on naming items within a category.

One person selects the category heading for example “words with the first letter p” and then from there you go back and forth naming items within that head category, such as “panda, pen, paper, etc.”

My favorite features of this game are how much fun the students have and how they giggle when someone gets stumped!

Concentration Topics Game 64 Lyrics

Concentration (clap, clap, clap)

Sixty-four (clap, clap, clap)

No repeats (clap, clap, clap)

Or hesitations (clap, clap, clap)

I’ll go first (clap, clap, clap)

You’ll go last (clap, clap, clap)

Category is: (clap, clap, clap)

<Choose a category, i.e. “Animals”> (clap, clap, clap)

<Player 1’s word, i.e. “Dog” > (clap, clap, clap)

<Player 2’s word, i.e. “Crocodile”> (clap, clap, clap)

And so on…

Here is a short beautiful illustration of a mom and her daughter modeling exactly how to play Concentration 64!

In Conclusion: Categories for Concentration

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