Easter Memory Game for Preschoolers
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Preschoolers are at a stage of development where they need to be introduced to many different types of activities and games to make learning enjoyable and age-appropriate. One activity preschoolers love is a memory game, and this FREE Easter Memory Game is an excellent choice for your preschoolers.
This printable includes four pages with nine cards each, for a total of 36 colorful cards. It is completely free, and you can find it at the end of this post, so be sure to grab it.
Easter Memory Game
Memory Games are fun, easy to prepare, and very educational. To succeed at this type of game, children need to pay attention to detail to recognize matching pairs of cards, which helps improve visual discrimination and strengthen concentration and focus. They will also improve their memory by remembering where the image pairs are so they can match them.
Adapting The Easter Memory Game
As a teacher, one of your jobs is to prevent frustration and feelings of failure in your students. That is why you have to consider their level of maturity. Pair children at a similar stage of development and use the number of cards each pair can handle. You don’t have to use all of them. Just remember to always use one pair of each card.
This memory game will bring a lot of fun to your preschool classroom and encourage friendly competition among your preschoolers. While they play, they will work on important skills that will support their intellectual development.
If your preschoolers have been exposed to other memory games, they will probably be able to work independently. However, new students or children unfamiliar with these types of games will need your guidance.
How to Prepare the Game
This game’s cards must be durable and strong, because the children will manipulate them in any kind of way, and you want them to last a long time. Once you’ve prepared them, you might want to place them in a small basket, a pencil case, or a Ziploc bag so they stay together and you don’t lose any cards.
To get this Easter Memory Game ready, you will need these materials:
- FREE Easter Memory Game Cards are found at the end of this post.
- printer
- White cardstock
- Scissors
- Laminator
- Laminator pouches
Print two sets of each page using white cardstock. Then cut out and laminate each card to protect them and make them last longer. That way, at the end of the month, you can store the game in a pencil case or a Ziploc bag to protect it and use it year after year.
How to Play the Easter Memory Game
To start, lay out the cards face down in rows and columns so your preschoolers can only see the backside, and invite them to join you for a matching game!
Keep it simple and start like a traditional memory game: children take turns selecting two cards to turn over, trying to make a match. If a match is made, then the preschooler gets to keep the set of cards. If not, then the cards have to be turned back over, and the next preschooler takes the turn.
Extension Activities:
These matching cards are so cute you can use them for other learning games, too. That way, you can use this resource to plan different activities, which will make your life a little easier without having to prep ahead, and will also help avoid your preschoolers becoming bored.
Some of the uses and activities you can do are:
Language Development: select one of the cards during circle time and invite your preschoolers to create a story using the picture, while you take dictation to make a class book.
Artwork: invite each preschooler to select a card and use it as inspiration to draw or paint a picture.
“The Missing Card” Game: This game works best as a small-group activity. Take 3 to 5 cards and place them on a table. Ask your preschoolers to name the pictures on each card, then have your children close their eyes while you remove one card. Then ask your preschoolers to open their eyes and tell you which card is missing.
Literacy: Literacy development is one of the most important parts of your preschoolers’ overall development because it creates the foundation for decision-making, building good relationships, becoming independent, and doing well in school overall.
The activities related to literacy are many since they involve singing, writing, talking, playing rhyming and word games, among others, but for me, one of the most important ones is reading, because this activity develops your children’s vocabulary, the ability to pay attention, listen, and understand what is being read, to connect sounds and words, to develop pre-writing skills, and to learn about the world around them.
Here are some examples of nice Easter music you can use during March to tie the rest of your activities to Music and Movement. Remember, this type of activity is great not only for literacy but also for gross motor development. And let’s face it, what kid doesn’t like to have fun singing and dancing, right?
Pin It For Later
If you are in a rush and don’t have time to read the post and download the printable but want to save it for later, pin this to your Math or Easter board on Pinterest.
Don’t forget to grab your free Easter Memory Game printable below! Then check out the rest of my Easter and St. Patrick’s Day activities with FREE printables below, and get them too to expand your activities collection and help your preschoolers have fun while learning.
I hope you enjoy these activities and printables, and that they help you have a fun Easter with your preschoolers.
Be happy, safe, and creative. I wish you well.
Love,
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