Summer Pairs Matching Game

Print and hand out to your Kindergarten students as independent work, a center activity, or a fun end-of-day wind-down. Most pages need nothing more than crayons or a pencil, so they work well for early finishers or a take-home summer packet.

This printable summer resource gives Kindergarten students a seasonal activity, whether that's a coloring page, matching game, craft, or a skill-practice resource with a summer theme. Use it for end-of-year fun, a summer learning packet, or anytime a seasonal twist helps keep kids engaged.

Yes. We made it for Kindergarten summer activities, and it works the same at home or at school. Families print it for one child and keep it where they will use it every day. Teachers print a copy per student or one for the whole room, whichever the day needs.

Cards are laid face down and players turn two at a time, keeping the pair when they match. It is the classic memory game with summer images, and it needs no reading, so a whole family can play it together.

Visual discrimination and working memory, both of which reading depends on. Noticing that two images are identical is the same attention to detail needed to see that b and d are not. Children also routinely beat adults at it, which does no harm.

Six to eight for a kindergartener. The full set at once usually ends in frustration. Add pairs as they get better, and let them win sometimes without making it obvious.

A summer bridge calendar is a plan of short daily activities that keeps skills fresh between one grade and the next. The Kindergarten to 1st grade calendar has 50 activities over 10 weeks, Monday to Friday, each about 15 minutes.

Summer packs for reading, math, crafts and games, summer number pages, sorting and matching games, dot to dot and color by number pages, a busy book, and a Kindergarten to 1st grade summer bridge calendar with a goals checklist.

Naming all the letters and their sounds, reading about 25 sight words, counting to 100 and writing the numbers to 20. The Kindergarten to 1st grade goals checklist lists these with a box to check for each one.

Yes. The summer bridge completion certificate works for kindergarten to 5th grade and has lines for the child's name, the grade they are ready to start, a signature and the date.