This 4th of July Color Your Own Memory cards is a powerhouse free printable that includes coloring, cutting, glueing, and memory practice. Perfect for at home activities leading up to Independence Day festivities.
It’s one of those heart-warming moments that makes you just smile and count all your blessings when you have your kids around the table, all working together for a collective goal.
The creativity, little conversations, and joy that abounds from one simple printable is one that I will always be fond of.
That’s exactly what happened when I handed my kids these 4th of July Color Your Own Memory Cards. They split up the pages among the three of them, started coloring with concentration, and then all jumping in to practice their cutting and gluing.
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How To Use This 4th of July Color Your Own Memory Cards
You can use your 4th of July Color Your Own Memory Cards free printable all in one go, or over the span of a few days. The steps for this memory game breaks down like this:
1. Color the memory cards. This is when the kids (and you!) can get really creative!
2. Cut the squares out and glue them to a piece of construction paper or cardstock. This ensures you cannot see the coloring marks through the back of the page.
3. Cut out the squares that you glued to the cardstock. You are ready to play!
You could laminate your memory cards if you prefer. This is the upgraded version of the laminator I have had for years and just love.
How To Play 4th of July Memory
Once colored, glued, and cut, you play 4th of July Color Your Own Memory the same way as a regular memory game.
1. Place all the cards facedown in a grid.
2. Player 1 flips over two cards to see if they match. If they match, Player 1 keeps them and flips again. If they don’t match, Player 1 flips them back over.
3. Player 2 flips over two cards and follows the same rules.
4. Continue taking turns flipping and matching until all cards are matched. The person with the most matches wins the game!
This is a simple game that all ages can join in on.
Skills Practiced
A printable that incorporates more than one skill and gets in the holiday fun? I’m in!
This 4th of July Color Your Own Memory Cards lets your children practice skills like:
- Fine motor skills / dexterity from both coloring and flipping the cards over
- Matching
- Memory
- Body Control
- Turn Taking
- Counting
- Attention Span
- Cutting
- Gluing
- Patience
What Is Included?
This 4th of July Color Your Own Memory is a 5 page PDF that will come to your email. It includes a directions page and 24 matches.
Use this free printable of 4th of July Color Your Own Memory cards to keep the children busy a little bit at a time throughout the week, or do as one big project. Either way, you will be making some lasting memories, enforcing skills, and playing a holiday day game together.
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