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Play with a deck of 52 playing cards. Shuffle and spread all of the cards out on a flat surface, face down. Players take turns choosing any two cards. (A match is two cards with the same number or face card. For example, a two of hearts and a two of clubs is a match. Two Jacks are a match.) If the cards match, then the player keeps the cards and goes again. If the cards don’t match, turn the cards back over and leave them in the same place. Play until all the cards have been picked up. The winner is the person with the most pairs.
Long car rides are a great time to play memory games. A classic memory game is “I Went to the Store…” Each person in the car takes turns adding grocery items in alphabetical order. The first player says, “I went to the store and I bought APPLES.” The next player says, “I went to the store and I bought apples and BANANAS.” Each player must repeat every item on the list before adding an item starting with the next letter of the alphabet. It gets tricky! “I went to the store and bought apples, bananas, carrots, dog food, eggs, fish…” Can your family make it all the way to the letter Z?
Are you good at remembering things? Try the games on this page to test and help improve your memory and concentration skills! WHAT’S MISSING: Look closely at each top picture. Cover it. Then try to draw what’s missing on the one below it.
DRAW A WORD: One player uses their nger to‘write’a word on the back of the second player. The second player tries to identify the word. Players switch positions and take turns being the‘writer’and guesser.
Tray Memory Game Look at the objects on the tray. Then cover the tray with a piece of paper and draw the objects you can remember on the tray on the right. Variation: Play at Home With Real Objects 1. Place several small items on a tray at home and have a friend or family member say the name of each object out loud to remember it. 2. Cover the tray and ask the person to try to name all the objects on the tray. 3. Start with just a few objects. Then if the person remembers them all, keep adding more and playing again.
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