Christmas Memory Card Game

July 8, 2008 · Games  ·

This is a traditional card game you can play with a friend!

First, get an adult to help you print the card designs (the front and the back of the cards) on a sheet of blank cardstock or heavy paper. With an adult’s help, use scissors to cut neatly along the straight gray lines so you have a stack of twelve cards.

Now color the front of each card, but leave the back (the side that says, “Happy Holidays!”) plain and uncolored.

When you’re ready to play Memory with a friend, place all of the cards in 4 neat rows, face down, between you both.

Choose who will go first and have the first player turn over 2 cards. If they match, the first person gets to keep them. If they don’t match, try to remember what they both were, and flip them back over in the same spots. Now the second player flips over any two cards they want. If they match, the second player gets to keep them.

Continue taking turns back and forth until all of the cards have been matched up and there are no cards between you anymore.

Finally, count up all the cards each player has—The player with the most cards wins!

HINT: In the Northpole, we print out many sheets of the cards to match different colors, reindeer, ornaments on the trees, etc. :-) Have fun!