{"id":5686,"date":"2010-08-05T21:14:30","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T04:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=5686"},"modified":"2026-01-31T14:17:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T22:17:11","slug":"matching-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2010\/08\/05\/matching-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Matching Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have an abundance of card stock in my art supplies, and Bean has a lunchbox full of stickers. She&#8217;s getting to an age where games (taking turns, following rules) are interesting. Instead of buying a card set, I decided to be frugal and make a memory matching card games. There are small sets with large-ish pictures, and bigger sets with smaller stickers. We tried out the butterfly game after dinner and it was a hit!<\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/4864444851\/\" title=\"homemade matching card games by Mindful One, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4142\/4864444851_7f38e0a121.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"homemade matching card games\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The inspiration came from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.notimeforflashcards.com\/2010\/08\/character-memory-game.html\">this post<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have an abundance of card stock in my art supplies, and Bean has a lunchbox full of stickers. She&#8217;s getting to an age where games (taking turns, following rules) are interesting. Instead of buying a card set, I decided to be frugal and make a memory matching card games. There are small sets with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[214,25,34,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-domestic-arts","category-education","category-motherhood","category-recreation"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5686"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13578,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5686\/revisions\/13578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}