How to Make Your Own Memory Match Game
Memory match games can help to exercise your mind and provide for some fun activity. Making a memory match game is one way to add your own personal twist to this brain-challenging activity. This is also an idea to try with kids, so that they can get creative while building their memory skills. Learning how to make your own memory match game can help you create a unique brain twister to play with family or friends.
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Instructions
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Cut your sheets of thick card stock into squares approximately 3 inches by 3 inches. Cut 24 squares total, although you can cut as many as you like, the more you cut the more challenging, just insure you have an even number of squares at the end.
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Place your squares in piles of two, so that you have 12 piles of squares. Take your first square and draw whatever image you like on it. Make sure it has a lot of color and catches the eye. For example, you can draw a yellow smiley face, black cat, red car or make your own eye-popping design.
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Replicate the image you drew on the first card, onto the second card in the pile. While it may be impossible to get them to match exactly, try and keep it as similar as possible, using the same colors and shapes. Set your two matching cards aside and repeat the last two steps with your remaining eleven piles
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Mix up your cards and lay them face down and you can now play your matching game by trying to flip over two cards that match. If you flip over two cards that don't match, flip them face down again and the next player will try their hand at it.
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Tips & Warnings
To make exact image replicas, you can print identical images from your computer.
Try making a holiday themed matching game. For example, you can do Christmas shapes, like Christmas trees and presents, or you can do Halloween and draw scary ghosts, jack-o-lanterns and things of that nature.
For a more personal game, make a family-themed matching game. All you need to do is take photos of family members and make copies of them, then glue them to your cards that you've cut out.
To keep cards in tip-top shape, laminate them after you've cut and colored them.
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