Parents, teachers and caregivers have long used memory match games as tools to help kids improve their memory and thinking abilities. They're also useful in teaching social skills and sportsmanship. With advancements in electronics and the use of the Internet, many of these games have come a long way, and some new ones have been invented, as well.
The Kidz Page
TheKidzPage.com is a website that features several free memory match games for kids. Some of the games you'll find there include "Find the Suspect," a game in which you pick out which suspect's face is blacked out in the line-up by choosing from the faces at the bottom. "Jelly Bean Match-Up" is a different twist on the average memory match style of game. Instead of matching cards with images, you click on colored eggs to crack them open and reveal a specific color of jelly bean. "Sequence Memory" is a game that requires you to not only remember images but the sequence in which they were presented.
Learning Games for Kids
Learning Games for Kids.com is another website with several fun memory match games for the kids. Some of the free games there include "Ice Cream Madness," a colorful, animated game where you have to serve ice cream cones to your kitty friends. As the kitties line up, each one will request a certain sequence of ice cream flavors. You need to memorize the flavors ordered and serve them to the kitty in order. "Turtle View" is a game similar to the old game "Simon" except this one features several different colored squares on the back of a turtle's shell. The colored squares will light up and beep in a specific sequence that you must repeat correctly. "Sequence Memory" is a number game where you have to memorize the number sequence presented to you. You have three seconds to memorize the numbers and then enter them into the game correctly.
Games at Home
There are also many memory match games available at department and toy stores that you can play at home. "Memory" is the classic memory match game played with a deck of cards containing different images. You turn all the cards upside down and turn them over one at a time, trying to make matches. "Bunny Hop" is a fast-paced memory match game for kids that consists of four different colored groups of bunnies in a carrot patch. You roll the color dice and pick a bunny that coincides with the color that shows on the die. You push that bunny into a hole, and if it pops back out you get to keep that bunny. The object of the game is to be the first to collect four bunnies of the same color group. "Simon" is one of the oldest electronic memory match games to challenge both kids and adults. The object of the game is to repeat the sequence the game creates by lighting up specific colored squares in the exact order as was presented. The game starts off easy but then gets more difficult as the sequences get quicker and more complex.
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