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Free, Printable Highlights Hidden Pictures

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By Stacy Fisher
Updated March 19, 2018

Highlights Hidden Pictures is a huge collection of free hidden pictures put together by Highlights magazine.

The favorite part of Highlights magazine for many kids—and even parents—is the hidden picture puzzles. With dozens available online for free, there's no need to subscribe to get them.

What Are Hidden Pictures Puzzles?

Popular for generations, these puzzles feature a larger detailed scene that usually follows a theme.

Within that larger picture are smaller items hidden throughout. For example, an Easter-themed puzzle might feature a picture of children, rabbits, and chicks in a grassy field, and hidden throughout the image are smaller items such as Easter eggs, baskets, bonnets, and more.

Not only are these puzzles fun, but they help children develop and practice important observational skills. Highlights blogger Mary-Alice Moore lists three key skills the puzzles teach: figure-ground perception, object constancy, and visual discrimination.

Figure ground perception is being able to distinguish objects from their backgrounds. Object constancy is being able to recognize, for example, a banana as a banana in multiple pictures even if the bananas are drawn slightly differently in each picture. Visual discrimination is being able to recognize similarities and differences between two different objects. For example, an egg might be shaped like a rock, but one still can be distinguished from the other.

Solving the Online Puzzles

Before beginning one of the online puzzles at Highlights' website, you can choose to show the names of the objects to be found, pictures of the objects to be found, show both the pictures and the names, or keep all of this hidden. This is a great way to customize the puzzle for how old your children are and how skilled they are at solving such puzzles.

Use your mouse to click on the objects you find hidden in the picture, and they will be colored in. You can zoom in on certain areas of the puzzle. Below the hidden picture, you'll see a running count of how many objects you've found out of the total number of hidden objects in the pictures. Use the hint button if you need a hint to find a hidden object.

Highlights Hidden Pictures App

There also is a free Highlights Hidden Pictures app for children 6 and older that's colorful and easy for kids to use. A new puzzle pack is delivered every month through the app in addition to seasonal and holiday puzzles. A huge puzzle library gives kids access to dozens of hidden object puzzles through the app.

Printable Puzzles

Education World offers dozens of free hidden pictures that come right from Highlights magazine. These free, printable puzzles feature scenes with pigs, treehouses, dinosaurs, bears, deer, inventors, chicks, kittens, boats, and more.

Another way to get hard copies of puzzles is at the library. Most libraries around the country offer Highlights magazine, and making copies of their puzzles is an inexpensive way to get puzzles for your children.

Answers to Hidden Pictures at Highlights Hidden Pictures

Also available online are answers to the Highlights hidden pictures that have appeared in the magazine.

These Highlights hidden picture keys are organized by magazine issue date and name of the Highlights hidden picture. Highlights hidden picture keys go back as far as four years.

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