Memory: Find the Pair

Twelve 1⅜ × 1¾ in cards — six pairs of original pictures: an apple, grapes, a sun, a kitty, a little frog, and a rain cloud. All the backs are the same, plain white.

• Easy
• 12 cards
• 6 pairs
• 1 Letter sheet

Make it with your phone cameraLesson code: 3962

On VanGami the template appears over your sheet through your phone camera — no printer needed. Trace it, cut, fold and glue. Below are all the steps in text.

What you’ll need

• 2 Letter sheets — office paper, 80 gsm (20 lb)
• Markers
• Pencil — and eraser
• Ruler — 8–12 in
• Scissors — small
• Glue stick — or PVA glue
• Glass — phone stand

Steps

Trace

1. Sturdy sheet from two. Apply glue stick over the whole surface of a sheet of printer paper, press a second sheet onto it, and smooth with your palm from the middle to the edges. You'll get a thick sheet — work on that one. Put it back in the same spot, edge to edge; don't move the phone.
2. Fruit and sun: outlines. Trace six cards — rectangles with rounded corners, three columns of two. You can draw the long sides with a ruler.
3. Fruit and sun: pictures. In each column, draw a pair of matching pictures: an apple, grapes, a sun. Copy them with thin lines.
4. Animals and cloud: outlines. Six more cards of the same size.
5. Animals and cloud: pictures. The pairs: a kitty, a little frog, a rain cloud. Copy them with thin lines.

Color

6. Color: fruit and sun. Color the apples red, the leaves green, the grapes purple, and the sun yellow with orange rays. Color both cards of a pair the same way.
7. Color: animals and cloud. Color the kitty orange, the little frog green and the drops blue; color the eyes and outlines black. The cloud stays white.

Cut

8. Cut out: fruit and sun — 6 pcs. Cut out six cards: first cut between the rows, then between the columns, then round the corners.
9. Cut out: animals and cloud — 6 pcs. Cut out six cards: first cut between the rows, then between the columns, then round the corners.

Play

10. Shuffle the cards. Turn all the cards face down, shuffle them, and lay them out on the table in three rows of four.
11. Flip two. The first player flips over any two cards. If they’re different, they flip them back over, and it’s the second player’s turn. Remember where everything is.
12. Keep the pair. Found two matching cards? That’s a pair: keep it and flip two more. When the cards run out, whoever has the most pairs wins.

Done. The memory game is done. Play with a friend: cards face down, flip two at a time — find a pair, keep it, and go again. Whoever has the most pairs wins.

Make it with your phone camera

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