Garden Seed Packet Match Game
Bring in spring with this fun Garden Seed Packet Match game. You can recycle and repurpose your old fruit and vegetable seed packets and turn them into a fun kid-friendly activity. Pull this out for rainy-day fun and start dreaming of planting in your garden beds.
Garden Seed Packet Match
- Seed Packets
- Paper cutter or scissors
- Laminator and laminating pouches
For this聽fun DIY game you will need a variety of聽empty seed packets, or old seed packets that you’re ready to repurpose. You’ll want two packages of each fruit or vegetable type, but the pictures can be different. In fact, I have only one exact match, and I much prefer my different picture sets as they are more interesting.
Pair up all your packets and decide which ones you’ll include.
Next, use a paper cutter, or a pair of scissors if you can be precise with your cuts and make a good square shape. My lines never go perfectly straight, so I used my paper cuter. Cut out all the packets into squares. Mine are just about 2″ squares.
You could use the squares like this, but they’ll last much better laminated, so fill up a laminating pouch with your squares and send them through! Then, just send your cards through your laminator. We use our laminator for everything, it’s definitely worth owning one if you don’t already.
I use the thinner 3 mil sheets for most of my kid projects, since they don’t need super thick, quality laminating. I got a big 100-ct box of laminating pouches which makes the sheets really cheap overall. About the price you’d pay in store for a 20-ct pack. It took just 2 laminating pouches to laminate all 20 of our game pieces.
When you are finished laminating, allow the sheets to cool. Then, grab your paper cutter again and cut out square shaped pieces again, leaving some of the laminated edge so the protective coating doesn’t pull off.
Now, you’re ready to play. Flip the cards, look for matches, and talk about vegetables! You can also use these cards as flashcards or garden seek-and-find cards or other learning games.
We had so much fun using our Garden Seed Packet Match game to get our boys ready for gardening season! Soon, we’ll be planning some of these plant varieties and watching them grow and it will be fun as our boys recognize the plants they plants we’ve been teaching them about. It’s a great way to encourage your children to be more comfortable with vegetables, too.
What a creative idea! I love this way of repurposing seed packets!
What a great idea! I love it! Thanks for sharing on Show Me Saturday!
that is a great idea and fun, even for me 馃檪
That is such a cute idea. I never would have thought about doing it
Great idea and I love that you like the different pictures. Especially for older kids, that is a great new option!
This is a great idea! We have a ton of seed packages around here.
I love this idea. I would use some Squash seed packets and eggplant.
I love this idea. Guess I need to save seed packets this year to make this for my 5 year old.
What an amazing idea. So very cute!
I am so excited gardening season is upon us!! Yay warmer weather haha
What a fun idea! I think my girls would really like this.
This is an amazing idea! Not to mention that it sounds like fun too!
Oh goodness, what a fantastic idea! I always love playing those match-it games so this would be such a fun DIY 馃檪
What a great idea and an awesome way for the kids to learn about fruits and veggies. I love the idea of making them into flashcards.
Oh, I love this! What a great idea!
This is so cute!! I am going to share it with some of my homeschooling friends!!
This is such a great idea! I think the whole family could learn from this game!
What a great way to repurpose seed packets. I would have never dreamed to do this. Love it!
What a great idea! This is a super cute game.
What a cute way to give kids’ little brains a workout. I think this is adorable.
This is such a cute idea! We plant a garden every year, so we have plenty of these packets. Thanks!
This is a wonderful educational game. And bonus! When you’re done, you can go plant them!
That is SUCH a cute idea. I love this so much.