Cloud Matchmaker

Cloud Matchmaker - Create and match all kinds of cloud formations



Cloud Matchmaker reminds me of those lazy summer days when I was a kid, lying in the grass, looking up at the clouds and imagining all kids of familiar shapes. Use the white plastic chain in Cloud Matchmaker to create any cloud formation that will match one of the blue cards. Who will be the first to spot the matching blue card? 

The green (easy), yellow (medium) and orange (hard) cards are the same images that appear on the blue cards. They are rated by difficulty by color. When you play, choose one of the colored cards and set it into the small wooden stand so that you can see it but no one else can. Use this as your model as you create your cloud formation.

Object:

Make the most matches and collect the most cards.

Set up:

Line up all the blue cards on the table in any order. Choose a green, yellow, or orange card to recreate and place it in the little stand so the other player(s) cannot see it. Determine whether you will play for a certain amount of time or until someone collects a certain amount of cards first.

Play:

Use the chain to form the cloud. All players look and see who can find it first. After it is identified by a player, turn the stand around so everyone can see if they were right or wrong. If they were correct, give them the colored card.

Start by folding the chain in half before making a symmetrical design. I have found it is easier to make sure both sides end up the same length when I do this first.

Try this:

• Place all the blue cards on the table and hand the person a green/yellow/orange card and ask him to find the matching blue card.
• Repeat as above but hand the card to the person in a different orientation than the card on the table, or stand it in the stand and let him compare from there.
• Start with fewer choices and add one or two at a time to increase the difficulty.
• Skip the game. Place any one of the pattern cards in front of the individual and ask him to make it with the white chain. Work through the cards from easy to difficult.
• Make each design yourself and ask the individual to find it on the blue cards.
• Make the designs one at a time in a different orientation than the card on the table and have the individual find the matching blue card.
• Choose one card that will look different when turned different ways. Have the individual make the cloud shape with the chain. Then turn the card 90 degrees and have him make it again. Turn 90 degrees more and do it again, creating the shape in a different orientation each time so that the individual will see that changing the orientation of something can make it look different.
• Skip the cards. Take turns creating your own cloud formation and let the other player guess what it is.
• Work on spatial relations, visual form constancy, visual discrimination, figure ground, eye-hand coordination, manual dexterity, motor planning, coordinated use of two hands, executive functioning skills, socialization skills, process skills, play and leisure exploration and participation

In the box: Lightweight plastic white chain link rope, 24 blue cloud pictures, 24 matching colored pictures, small stand.

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