Family Memory

Most of my siblings' families have settled pretty far apart, and with an upcoming reunion, I thought it would be a fun idea to make a family memory game featuring everyone's faces.

 

We liked it so much that we made them for both sides of the family.

The pink one is an envelope I made myself out of piece of card stock.  The yellow one is a manila folder I covered in paper.

Both are laminated with velcro closures.  Each person has two photos, each photo has its own color border and the back says "Do you know your family?"  Each photo is also laminated.

See that accordion action?  That's all me.

You can play it like traditional memory or you can organize the cards into families or you can play match-the-parent-to-the-kid.  It's pretty versatile, I think.

 

It's a good toy in light of the fact that our kids are going to actually be seeing all their cousins for the first time in a long time--maybe this way they will know some of their names! :)