About the Little Chefs Memory Game
Tall hats, busy pans and the magic of turning ingredients into dinner — the little chefs deck celebrates everyone who loves to cook (or loves to lick the bowl). Service starts when you flip the first card.
What's in the Little Chefs deck
The full deck, so you know exactly what you're up against — 12 cards, 6 pairs: 👨🍳 Chef🍳 Frying Pan🥄 Wooden Spoon🔪 Chopping🥘 Paella Pan🍲 Stew Pot🧂 Salt🌶️ Spice🥕 Carrot🍝 Pasta🎂 Cake⏲️ Timer
Study tip: link the first three — chef, frying pan and wooden spoon — into one ridiculous mental picture. Absurd images stick; lists don't. Then do the same for the next three, and the board will memorise itself.
How to memorise a jobs and heroes board
Give every job its tool and every tool its scene. The firefighter has the hose, the chef has the pan, the astronaut floats past the porthole — memorise the pairing, then the pairing's location. Tools-and-people is a natural two-column list, and two-column lists are the friendliest thing a memory can hold.
Then stage the day: who do you meet first in the morning, who at lunch, who last thing at night? A walk through an ordinary day touches most of a jobs deck, and the walk gives the board an order you can replay when you are hunting the missing paramedic.
Fun Facts About Little Chefs
- "Chef" comes from the French chef de cuisine — chief of the kitchen.
- Legend says the pleats in a chef's hat once represented the number of ways they could cook an egg.
- In a traditional kitchen brigade, the taller the hat, the more senior the chef.
- Umami — the savoury fifth taste — was identified by a Japanese chemist in 1908.
How to Play
Tap any card to flip it over, revealing the kitchen tool image underneath. Tap a second card — if the two match, they stay face up and you keep going. If not, they flip back after a moment. Your goal is to match every pair in as few moves as possible.
Three difficulty levels are available: easy (6 pairs), medium (8 pairs) and hard (12 pairs). Switch between them any time with the difficulty buttons above the board. Start on easy if you're new, or jump straight to hard for a proper brain workout.
Jobs & Heroes deck questions
Do these decks work for "what do you want to be" age kids?
Perfectly — it is that exact age. Naming the jobs, the tools and the workplaces turns the game into a vocabulary lesson that feels like play, and the themed boards keep the fantasy jobs in too.
What is the hard part of a jobs board?
The uniforms. Several items share a colour scheme, so colour will mislead you — memorise each figure by what they are holding or doing instead.