Matching memory games are fun and simple activities that can actually help improve learning and brain power. These games ask players to remember where certain cards or items are and match them together, which exercises the brain. By playing regularly, people can get better at focusing, paying attention, and remembering things. These are essential skills, not just in school, but in everyday life. Matching games can also help improve problem-solving and make learning feel more like play.
What could be more fun than combining an art lesson with a matching game? In this case, the students create the cards for the match game!
A Perfect Match Art Lesson Plan Objectives
- Study the field of illustration and graphic design.
- Create a list of appropriate images based on a selected theme.
- Design and create tiles using copying techniques for the initial “roughs” and then refine to finished work with markers and pencils.
Cross-Curricular Ideas
- Tie this activity into an ELA lesson by requiring the matching tiles to be pictures of places and/or characters from the literature.
- Ask students to create tiles with famous people or places to partner this activity with a social studies or history lesson.
- Use this activity to practice spelling words. Have students illustrate the words and then write them at the bottom of each picture.
- Incorporate a Science lesson by having students illustrate animals or organisms to match.
Tips for A Perfect Match
- Use a high-quality transfer paper to duplicate images.
- Create vivid and colorful images with markers or colored pencils.
- Use a sharp-edged blade to carefully separate the tiles without damaging them.
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