There are so many great matching game ideas in blogland (one of my favourite reads,
Delicious Ambiguity provides a super round up
here).
A matching game using plastic lids (I don't recall where I spotted the use of the lids, but if you know I will put in credit!) has been in my head for a long time.
We collect Nutcrackers. We have all sorts and sizes - even a large one the size of a small child.
Miss Lily has a knack for remembering each Nutcracker in our collection and its role in her version of the ballet {which only she knows the script} and around December 1st there is always a lot of panic in our house as concern for a certain lurking Mouse King grows and grows and grows.
I wanted to challenge her by creating a little matching game. This is what I came up with.
Photograph your Nutcracker collection. If you don't collect Nutcrackers, take your child to the shops and photograph the ones on display. I recall that Target has a great variety of novelty Nutcrackers that children find interesting. I photographed ours against a white backdrop, like this. You will need to print out doubles.
Then I used my Martha Stewart circle cutter (3") to cut the scrapbook paper and the photographs to fit the lids (the scrapbook paper is
June Bug Vintage plaid).
I used double-sided tape to stick the scrapbook paper and the photograph to the lid.
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| Mouse King where are you? |
We still have at least 20 more nutcrackers to photograph, but I did not have enough plastic lids (now there's an excuse for more Pringles!). But this is sort of game you can add to year after year so long as you have enough scrapbook paper of the same variety.
If you don't have a thing for Nutcrackers, you could also make an ornament matching game. Either photograph your own ornament collection or take your little one to see the holiday displays and pick our a few unique ornaments to photograph - that would be very fun and could become more complex.
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