This free printable Christmas memory game is a fun way to challenge young children’s (and adults’!) memory skills. Playing games during the holiday season is a great way to celebrate and enjoy time together as a family, group, church group, or class.

WHAT IS A MEMORY GAME?

A memory game is any challenging activity where you have to remember a picture, details, or patterns.

Focus, concentration, and attention can be enhanced by playing memory games. Memory games help kids develop attention to detail. Playing memory games can enhance visual perception, too.

Children can develop visual discrimination skills when they test their memory, especially when the tasks involve finding differences or connecting two images that are alike. 

Memory games are also a great bonding activity for kids to play with each other or adults, which develop social skills like taking turns, patiently waiting your turn, and accepting being the winner or loser.

ARE MATCHING GAMES GOOD FOR KIDS?

Yes! The value of educational games grows as children get older and approach school age. Kids can foster their imagination, listening skills, and other critical thinking skills

Whether it be playing crossword puzzles, simple games like “spot the difference,” all these help develop important memory and thinking skills. Users are also honing their essential skills in the process.

HOW TO PLAY MEMORY GAMES

If this is your first time a matching game, the level of skill is EASY. Here is a step-by-step instruction on how to play this fun game of memory cards.

1. GET THE PRINTABLE

Downloading the printable at the button below. The file will be in PDF format so you can save it to your computer.

2. PRINT IT OFF

Once you have the file, print it with your home printer.

There are two ways this can be done. Either print from the browser or print by opening the file itself after downloading. Both are fine, it is just up to you which way is easier. To print from the browser, after clicking the download button, there is going to be a printer icon on the upper right side. Click that and print off as many as you need.

3. PREPARE THE GAME PIECES

When that is all done, grab a pair of scissors and start cutting around the edges of the matching cards. Printing the game cards on a card stock would be great so that it would be longer lasting. Another option would be printing it on regular print paper, and then laminate them.

When everything is ready, shuffle the cards, and then lay them facing down to hide the images.

4. PLAY AND HAVE FUN

Now, it is time to play and have some real fun! Play with two players. The first player will flip 2 cards, and if it is a matching pair, they take out those cards to keep and get a point. Same goes for the next player. Each of them take turns until there are no more cards left.

5 TOP FREE PRINTABLE CHRISTMAS GAMES

Other than our free printable Christmas memory matching game (to download at the button below), here are 5 other fun holiday activities that children of all ages can play.

These are great for home, classrooms, homeschooling, Sunday School, and children’s parties.

1. CHRISTMAS BINGO

Most families now enjoy playing bingo at holiday gatherings as a fun tradition. You’re going to have a great time assembling this Christmas Bingo set, I’m sure. The kids can play the game easily because it is entirely made up of pictures. Grab a few festive candy, print the bingo cards, and start playing.

2. BOARD GAMES FOR CHRISTMAS

One of the most effective ways to practice social skills and educational ideas like counting, number identification, and color recognition is by engaging in board games. From the favorite classic games from before to the new game available now, whether it be older kids, younger kids, small groups or even large groups – there will certainly be a board game perfect for everyone.

Board games are really fun especially during family parties. The number of games available is limitless. Some of the best games are Pictionary, monopoly, scrabble, and so many more. But, what would be lots of fun is having a printable board game to play for Christmas.

3. CHRISTMAS WORD SEARCH

Your brain will benefit greatly from word search puzzles! Your brain processes words through cognitive activity to form easily identifiable sequences, enabling you to locate order and derive meaning from the information in your environment. Word searches are useful for teaching kids how to evaluate clues based on context, improve their vocabulary, and to enhance their spelling. Not to mention, how much fun they are.

4. I SPY CHRISTMAS

Kids will love playing this Christmas I Spy Printable Game over the holiday season! All you have to do is print it out and play! The kids will be thrilled to try out this game. They can also give their own items as they play throughout the game.

Of course to make it more interesting, you can act as Santa Claus for the day and also add prizes to the game to make them more engaged. A few ideas on what to give out as prizes are chocolates, freshly baked gingerbread man, pack of hot chocolate, or a candy cane.

5. DON’T EAT SANTA

The entire family will have a good time playing the festive game – Don’t Eat Santa! To have fun with the free printable game for years to come, simply check out the link, download, and print it. The printable includes the instructions to the game.

FREE PRINTABLE CHRISTMAS MEMORY GAME – Instant PDF Download

I know you are excited to get these free holiday memory cards for kids. Please remember that this is for your own personal use, and the download file cannot be shared or altered. Feel free to share the link to this post with friends so they can download and use the printable too.

Click the button below to download the printable now.

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