Choose one child in each group to be the dealer. After they have shuffled the cards, have the dealers deal out all the cards face down. Tell children to look at their cards carefully, find any matching pairs and read aloud the name of the fish on those pairs before setting them aside. Then have the child to the left of the dealer in each group begin play by drawing a card from the player on his or her left. If the player draws a matching card, he or she must read aloud the name of the fish on the card, and set aside the pair.
Play continues to the left.
Have children replace the shark card with another shark card, shuffle the deck, and play again. For longer games, you can have children make additional pairs of fish cards to add to each deck. You may download, print and make copies of this page for use in your classroom, provided that you include the copyright notice shown below on all such copies. All Rights Reserved.