🧍 Human Memory

What you need

Equipment: Pairs of paper slips. You need an even number of players. Make slips in matching pairs: each role, like an animal sound or a dance move, appears on exactly two slips. Line players up in two rows or a grid, like cards on a table.

How to play Human Memory

1. Each player draws a slip secretly and does not reveal it.
2. Players stand in fixed places in the grid and may not move.
3. Choose one player to be the guesser.
4. The guesser points to two players, one after the other.
5. Each one 'flips over' by acting out their slip: making the sound or doing the movement.
6. A match? Both leave the grid and stand by the guesser, who gets another turn.
7. No match? Both stay in place and everyone has to remember what they saw. The turn passes to the next guesser.
8. Keep going until all the pairs are found.

Scoring and wrapping up

Scoring: Each pair found = 2 points. Finding a pair on your very first turn = 3 points.

To finish: When all the pairs are found, the player with the most pairs is crowned Memory Champion. The pairs can become partners for the next activity.

By age

• Ages 6-8: use animal sounds only, and play with 4 or 5 pairs.
• Ages 9+: mix sounds, moves and short phrases, and use similar pairs to make it harder.

Variations

• Big group: run two grids side by side, and let the guessers come from the other grid.
• Capy twist: add one 'Capy card' with no pair. Whoever reveals it does a Capy dance and loses their turn.

Tips for the adult in charge

• 10 to 12 players (5 or 6 pairs) is ideal.
• Choose sounds and moves that are clearly different from each other.

🖨️ Printable Human Memory roles

Write each role on two slips to make a pair, then mix the slips.

1. ☐ Meow like a cat
2. ☐ Moo like a cow
3. ☐ Quack like a duck
4. ☐ Roar like a lion
5. ☐ Hiss like a snake
6. ☐ Oink like a pig
7. ☐ Howl like a wolf
8. ☐ Flap your arms like a chicken
9. ☐ Jump like a frog
10. ☐ Swing your arm like an elephant trunk
11. ☐ Pretend to kick a ball
12. ☐ Pretend to swim
13. ☐ Do a bunny hop
14. ☐ Spin like a ballerina
15. ☐ Pretend to play the guitar
16. ☐ Pretend to brush your teeth
17. ☐ Say 'Hip hip hooray!'
18. ☐ Pretend to sneeze loudly
19. ☐ March like a soldier
20. ☐ Pretend to eat spaghetti