At least in this activity that’s how it is.
Today’s “easy” activity is a file folder game. I say easy, because you either have all the things you need or they are not expensive to buy. I say “easy” because I chose to make 17×2 tiny animals and I detest cutting. It took longer than expected.
Anyway, what is a file folder game? Well…it’s a game in a file folder!
So for this I printed off a page from google with animals on it. Then because I am extra I painstakingly colored them all in. Good news, I bet you can find pre-colored pictures of animals on google.
I already have a laminator, but again…I’m extra. So I laminate most things I make. You do not have to laminate. You could also use clear contact paper, or even packing tape. Or you can just leave them as paper. Elowyn however would rip them in 5 seconds flat so this is why I laminate everything.
Once I colored the animals, I scanned and printed a second page so they looked identical. I cut them all out, laminated them, and glued one set onto the file folder. I used velcro dots (spend the extra money on the dots, cutting velcro is annoying) and put them on each animal. Guess what, this is another extra step. You don’t have to have velcro. You can just as easily tape a bag or envelope to the file folder to save all the pieces.
Put dots on the back of the second set of animals and wallah! A matching game.
As you can see the camel somehow lost it’s tail. The monkey is purple because I colored him at 7am while pumping and forgot to turn on the light. Purple looks brown in the dark. 🤷🏼♀️
Elowyn loved this game.
The best thing about file folder games is you can make them for seriously anything.
Literally anything you can find a picture for you can make into a learning game in a file folder!
We will use this game to work on saying the words for animals. Elowyn knows most sounds animals make but calls them by their sound not their name. With this game we will work on saying the animals name when we finds it’s match. Simple and fun!
Mornings With Mama 