Skill – Whimsical Publishing & Illustration

The following little activity is great for children learning measurements and how to use a ruler. It’s also a fun mini art project. Follow the photos to learn how 🙂

MATERIALS
To start you will need a piece of paper, pencil, ruler, and markers or pencil crayons.

STEP 1
With your pencil and ruler make two lines that connect; one vertical and one horizontal.

STEP 2
With your pencil, make a small mark every centimetre along the lines you’ve drawn.
You can use your ruler to help 🙂

STEP 3
At each point you’ve marked on the paper begin numbering.
I measured out 17cm. So I should have 17 marks on my paper.
Examples in the following 2 pictures.

STEP 4
Using your ruler, begin drawing a line between the matching numbers.
Example: 1 to 1, 2 to 2, and so on. You should begin to see the pattern.

After connecting all the matching numbers you should end up with something like this.
You can even fill in the spaces with different colours to create a cool effect.

I’ve created a template if you’re out and about and your kids want something to do.
(Don’t forget your rulers) 😉 DOWNLOAD HERE: RULER DESIGN

Hope you all have an excellent start to the Winter Season!
Keep warm 🙂

The game Concentration/Memory was one of my favourites growing up. Nothing better then a good brain teaser. 😉 I wanted to be able to share this fun skill testing game with you all. So I made a small deck of Autumn themed playing cards.

All you need to do is save the pdf files below; find some stock card (preferably 100lb) paper to print out the pages on; and cut along the dotted lines to have your very own deck of Memory playing cards.

DOWNLOAD: FALL MEMORY PAGE 1

DOWNLOAD: FALL MEMORY PAGE 2

Here’s a little info about the game for those of you who have yet to play,
or need a quick recap.

Players
1 to 6 players.

Goal
To collect the most pairs of cards.

Setup
Shuffle the cards and lay them on the table,
face down, in a pattern (e.g. 4 cards x 6 cards).

Gameplay
The youngest player goes first. Play then proceeds clockwise.

On each turn, a player turns over two cards (one at a time) and keeps them if they match.
If they successfully match a pair, then that player also gets to take another turn.

When a player turns over two cards that do not match, those cards are turned face down again and it becomes the next player’s turn.

When all the pairs have been found, the player with the most cards wins.

I hope you all enjoy the playing cards!
Wishing you all a very fun and beautiful fall season.

Oceans of Love,

Hayden