Matching Game

Got the idea for this simple easy game here, I saw it and thought of my niece who wants fidgets and things for her new job (click here for the fidget stress balls project) - all you need is a sheet of foam and some self adhesive foam shapes. 

Cut the foam sheet into 3"x2" squares (or whatever size you want), I made 16 squares but you can make this as big or small as you want. Stick matching pairs of foam shapes to the squares (so you have a pair of every shape, same color) making sure you can't see the shapes sticking out from underneath when you turn them over. 

That's it. Now you have a memory/matching game - turn all the squares over with the shapes turned down, and take turns turning over 2 squares, if you get a match then you get to go again. If not a match turn the 2 squares back over and the next person goes - hopefully remembering where they saw a match if they draw the other one. Keep playing until all the pairs are matched, person with the most pairs found wins. Brooke and I also played go fish with the squares - play around with them and see what else you can come up with! 

We put the squares into a manila envelope that Brooke decorated with a couple shapes and wrote "matching game" on it. So cute. Then mailed it off to her sister - another good thing is this is a super lightweight game, only cost me 2 stamps to mail it!

Brooke showing how to play, she staged turning
 over a matching pair first thing :)

everyone likes to play haha, it's not just for kids!

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