Elmer Concentration Game

This Summer we read Elmer by David McKee as a part of our "Wish" week for Summer Reading. For our craft we made elephant mosaics out of crepe paper, but for our activity I created a concentration game of Elmer the Elephant and his friends. I found a blank elephant template online of Elmer and created multiples in publisher to print out. I then took colored pencils and created 12 very distinct elephants that we copied and printed out onto card stock to create the playing cards. We then took some of our stockpiled cardboard flats that we turned into the game boards creating a large grid of 24 squares (4x6) on each flat. We played 4 kids to each grid. The idea of the game was to have the elephants flipped facing down and the kids flipped over two at a time in search of matching pairs, the child with the most pairs wins. It's a really easy game to create with any pictures. I chose to make the elephants as different as possible to limit any discrepancies with what elephant went with what elephant. The kids absolutely loved the game! It'll definitely be a repeat game for programs to come!