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, both. We made it for Kindergarten summer activities, and the page works the same whether it lands on a kitchen table or a center rotation. At home, most families go through it together and talk the answers out loud, and that talking is where most of the learning happens with visual matching. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, 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.

1 printable resource, all free to preview. Downloads are included with a ClassWeekly free trial, and every page prints on standard 8.5 x 11 paper.

These are written for Kindergarten students, roughly ages 5-6. Many teachers also use them a grade up for review or a grade down as an extension, so use the preview to judge the fit for a particular child.

Yes. Nothing here assumes a classroom of 25, so they work the same one-to-one at the kitchen table as they do in a Kindergarten classroom, a literacy centre, or a tutoring session.