Match Games - Colors and patterns and shapes, oh my! Teach your students simple matching with these game cards.

Part of the grade level readiness skills for both Preschool and Kindergarten has always been color recognition. These recognition skills then progress on to shapes and eventually letters. It all starts with colors though. That is an important step in child development and eventually helps them form a high level of descriptive language. Becoming expressive all begins with this seemingly simple skill. It definitely helps to have students experiment with paints and watercolors. They are amazed when you teach them how to create new colors from primary colors. A great way to teach them this is with food coloring and water. They do tend to go a bit overboard with the food coloring though. In this section we not only work on matching colors and patterns within them, but we present students with the words that correlate with colors. We also look at shapes and the concept of symmetry and we expand to looking at symmetry in everyday objects and items.

Your students will enjoy matching bright puppies, funky elephants, shape-filled fish, silly faces, and more! These games will teach color names, pattern recognition, association, and basic shapes. Similar to our other matching games, these cards can be placed in a folder for individual work station activity, or mounted on a bulletin board with Velcro tabs for team relays. As with all of our card games, we recommend laminating the individual pieces to help them last longer. Six different matching games will make the school day fly by! And if the kids accidentally learn something along the way, well that's okay, too.



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Printable Color File Folder Games

Click the buttons to print each file folder game page.

Doggy Colors Directions

Match the words to the color of the dogs. Cut out all dogs.

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Doggy Color

Match these colors with the correct words on the "Bright Pups" page.

Bold Puppies

Match these colorful pups with the words on the "Spell Those Colors" page.

Spell Those Colors

Pairs with the "Bold Puppies" page to teach color names.

Bright Pups

Pairs with the "Doggy Color" page to teach color names.

Crazy Elephant! Game

Cut out all elephants. Match the elephants that are alike. We recommend laminating all pieces.

Elephant Page 1

Match these crazy elephant patterns! Use in conjunction with "Elephant Page 3."

Elephant Page 2

More colorful pachyderms to match! Use in conjunction with "Elephant Page 4."

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Elephant Page 3

The matching pairs for "Elephant Page 1."

Elephant Page 4

The matching pairs for "Elephant Page 2."

Some Fishy Shapes Directions

Match the patterns on the fish to their pond. Place each fish inside their pond.

Shape Fish 1

Four fishy shape sequences to be placed in the correct ponds on the "Matching Palette 1" page.

Lots of Diamonds Fish

Four more fish to be placed in the correct ponds on the "Matching Palette 2" page.

Matching Palette 1

Matching ponds to be used in conjunction with the "Shape Fish 1" page.

Palette #2

Matching ponds to be used in conjunction with the "Lots of Diamonds Fish" page.

How to Play Split Faced

Cut the faces along the lines and have students put them back together correctly.

Symmetry in Faces

Color and cut out the faces. Cut the faces down the dotted line. Mount the left side of the faces in a folder. Place the remaining pieces in a plastic pocket or baggy. Four faces in outline to be matched. Have students color them, too!

Hats Off To You

Four more faces to color, cut, and match!

Match the Rocket Directions

Match the rockets that contain objects that are associated together.

Object Rockets

Six out of this world matching puzzles! Used in conjunction with the "Sky High Rockets 3" page.

Rocket Set 2

Another half-dozen rockets with half a paired set of objects. Used in conjunction with the "Body Parts and Objects" page.

Sky High Rockets 3

Zoom! These six rockets contain the matching objects from the "Object Rockets" page.

Body Parts and Objects

Blast off! These six rockets contain the matching objects from the "Rocket Set 2" page.

Shape Making

Cut out all of the shapes. Students match bold pieces with light pieces.

Diamonds

Contains eight diamond shapes of varying size and angles. Use with "More Diamond Holds" page.

Happy Faces!

You can't help but smile as your students match smiley faces of different sizes. Use with "Happy Face Pallete" page.

Triangles

Any three points will make a triangle, as this page demonstrates. Match with the "Outline Spacers" page.

Rectangle Mania

Two short parallel, two long parallel. Match with the shapes on the "Rectangle Outlines" page.

More Diamond Holds

A lighter version of the diamonds. Matches with the shapes on the "Diamonds" page.

Happy Face Pallete

A lighter version of the smiley faces. Matches with the shapes on the "Happy Faces!" page.

Outline Spacers

A lighter version of the triangles. Matches with the shapes on the "Triangles" page.

Rectangle Outlines

A lighter version of the rectangles. Matches with the shapes on the "Rectangle Mania" page.