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Mitten Match

January 5, 2010 by notjustcute Filed Under: Get Outside, Learning through Play and Experience 5 Comments

For those of you implementing a winter theme, consider creating a mitten match!  You could use actual gloves and mittens and have children pair them together, or create a type of memory game like the one I did here.

I made mine out of felt for quick and easy durability.  I gave each set different characteristics, but you can see, for my older children, I made it a bit challenging by making some pairs similar to other pairs.  I thought I had made each set as a matching pair (with one lefty and one righty), but it looks like a lack of sleep caught up with me and some are opposing and some are not.  I can see an argument for either.  If you make each hand you have an actual pair, but if you make them the same hand, you have an identical match.  I ‘ll let you decide for yourself, or just be like me and make them late at night and see how they look in the morning!  

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