Sea Shell Count and Match!

I made up a fun counting and matching game for my little guy, just using our collection of sea shells and an old berry container! All 3 of my kids love to play with this, so I also made it a memory game too, by putting in twice as many shells!

Print out the numbered shell pages and laminate them, cut out each individual shell. Then mark up each shell with 1 number (numbers 1-12). I used a broad point sharpie and that works perfect!

For the original game, they pull a shell out of the box and match it to the same shell card. It's a simple card, but keeps them occupied for awhile. I also have them say the number out loud when they pull it. To play the memory game, they put the cards away and take out all the shells and then just turn them number side down and get playing!

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Craft in a Minute: Memory Game

This weeks craft in a minute is so simple, you will be asking yourself, why haven't I made one yet?  What will you need? Felt stickers, Natural Wooden Circles. That's it! Seriously, you just take the backing off the stickers and pop them onto your circle (or any other shape you have handy!). I purchased these circles at Hobby lobby when the unfinished wood is at 50% off!

I have quite a variety of stickers here, but it's only because I used what I had on hand! We are heading off for a long weekend and I wanted some fun 'unplugged' games for the kids to play, while my husband and I are occupied with setting up camp, cooking etc.

The entire game tucks neatly into this Thrifty Find tin from an antique shop (.10). There is even room to add more pieces when I can get more circles and a bigger variety of foam stickers! See? Easy! 

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Easy Memory Game and GIVEAWAY!!

  After finding a wonderful bulletin board border at our teacher store, I used the parts I needed for our chore chart and got to thinking as to what I could do with the leftovers! My youngest is 3 and can never keep up when we play memory with the big kids, so I thought these pieces would be PERFECT for a mini memory game to help build up his memorization skills!! I cut them down to a mini 10 piece game.
He had such a blast playing and the smile on his face when he would match one was so big it melted my heart!!!
He even liked matching them up when they were right side up!! This was a game that he has played over and over again and even his brother and sister get involved when we play at a restaurant and the food takes a little long to come! (Usually breakfast on Sunday after Mass when the places are so full!!)

We had some awesome little envelopes that I have been dying to use with something (I got a case of over 1000 of them for .99 at the Salvation Army!! We used scrap paper and flashcard pieces with some stickers to decorate them and they are so cute!! We gave a few away to his friends in our playgroup and still have some left over!

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