About the Sea Creature Memory Match Game
This printable game brings a group of playful sea creatures from the world of A Duck Amuck to your game table. There are eight matching pairs to find, featuring Erwin’s colorful undersea illustrations.
Choose the full-color version when you want to start playing right away, or print the black-and-white version and turn making the cards into part of the activity. Color the creatures first, cut out your cards, and then play with the set you created.
How to Assemble Your Memory Game
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Download and print the PDF. Choose the full-color version or the black-and-white version if you’d like to color the sea creatures yourself.
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Color your cards (optional). Use crayons, colored pencils, markers, or other art supplies to add your own colors to the black-and-white illustrations.
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Make the cards sturdier. For an easy option, print directly onto cardstock. You can also print on regular paper and glue the sheet onto cardstock, index cards, or recycled cereal-box cardboard.
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Cut out the cards. Follow the edges of each card to create your set of 16 cards. If you've glued the printable to another material, let it dry before cutting.
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Start playing! Once you've cut out all eight matching pairs, shuffle the cards and you're ready for a game.
How to Play
Shuffle all 16 cards and place them face down in a grid.
Players take turns flipping over two cards at a time. If the sea creatures match, keep the pair and take another turn. If they don’t match, turn both cards face down again and let the next player go.
Keep playing until all eight pairs have been found. The player with the most matching pairs wins!
Make it your own
The black-and-white cards give you another way to play before the matching game even begins. Color each pair exactly alike, or give the matching sea creatures different colors and see whether you can still spot the pairs by their shapes and details.
You can also invent names for the creatures, make up stories about them, or draw your own sea creatures and add new matching pairs to the game.
Want to change the rules? Try playing cooperatively and work together to find all eight pairs, or time yourselves and see how quickly you can complete the whole grid.
