Looking for a multi age game for a family party, I made a fun twist on a classic as a holiday ice breaker across the generations.

Memory is a classic game associated to little kids but Memories Memory – well that can be a classic game that can only ever be specific to your family.  I was looking for a game to play that didn’t have a lot of rules for a mixed crowed.  Making a memory game out of photos worked well.

I just printed 2×2 photos on cardstock with a border. I tried to do enough to fill up our coffee table in a square, which ended up being 36 pairs, so 72 tiles.

The kids young and old really loved to try to match their favorite photos – so make sure anyone playing the game is in at least one set.

My Zentangle Twist!

When tidying up my supplies – it occurred to me that this is also a great opportunity to make a game with all those tiles that I create while teaching! Often I have multiple tiles that are the same tangles, even if they look a little differently. 

It is also a great way to utilize tiles when I am doing a practice of the same tangles on repeat. Like the tiles below – same tangles, different approaches. It makes playing memory a little more challenging but really fun to see how many different ways you can use the same tangles.