Animal Memory

Description

Memory Animal in wood composed of 24 pieces with 12 pairs of animals. The Memory is a game for 2 players. With the pieces face down, the players pick them up 2 by 2 looking for pairs. The player who manages to make the most pairs is the winner.

Recommended for ages 3 and up, children from the age of 1 can begin to manipulate it.
At first, the child may not follow the rules of the game. But she herself, through free play, begins to create different dynamics from organizing the pieces, stacking, forming series looking for a logic, begin to identify the figures, expand their vocabulary …. And little by little we will begin to introduce the mechanism of the Memory Animal game.

The pieces, made of unvarnished wood, will stimulate the child’s touch and its simplicity will help stimulate their natural creativity. Playing Memory promotes basic cognitive processes such as perception, attention and memory. It helps children focus on an activity and concentrate on what they are doing. It encourages the development of oral language, and leads to the use of new vocabulary in relation to the set of images we use in Memory. It favors the learning of the rules and norms that must be followed to play correctly. Reinforces the acceptance of frustration when children lose.

How do we play?

The first thing to do, after taking the tiles out of the box, is to put them face down on a flat surface. Make sure you mix them up so that no one knows which is which. Once they are mixed up, decide who the starting player is. Usually the starting player is the younger of the two players playing. Each player, starting with the starting player, will turn over 2 tiles, if he/she manages to discover a pair of matching animals he/she can keep them for him/herself as points. Keep playing until you don’t discover a pair. If the animals you turn over are different, turn them face down and it’s the next player’s turn. The next player repeats the same process: turn 2 tiles, if they are the same, she keeps them as points and continues playing, if not, it’s the other player’s turn.

The player who accumulates the most pairs once there are no more tiles to be turned is the winner. In the 4-player version, 2 groups of 2 players each are formed. Each player turns over 1 tile, his partner being the player who chooses and turns over the second tile. The rest of the game is the same as the two-player version.

Check out the Memory Vegetal, another toy from our Memory line.