Free Printable Hexi Cards

Every now and then an idea pops into my head that turns out to be great. It doesn’t happen very often mind you. Most often my ideas are total flops, but this one turned out to be pretty good, if I may say so myself.

It’s a simple idea, just a whole lot of hexagons with different coloured sections. We call them ‘Hexi Cards’.

hexi cards

Hexi Cards are simple little hexagonal cards with five different coloured wedges on each card.

The best things about these hexi cards is that they are really easy to make, and they can be used in lots of different ways.

How to Use Hexi Cards.

Little children will have fun with the hexi cards by simply using them to make patterns and shapes. My toddler had a lovely time playing with two sets of cards on the floor.

hexi cards

Preschoolers who are learning colours and math skills such as matching and patterns can use them to work on skills like labelling and matching colours, or finding matching pairs of hexi cards.

hexi cards

Older kids will also love matching and making patterns with the hexi cards. They could use them for a simple game of memory or my big kids made up their own domino-type game to play with the hexi cards.

To play ‘Hexo dominoes’ they used three sets of cards, one set for each player, and took turns matching coloured wedges. There was lots of problem solving, logical thinking and turn taking practice going on!

For older kids you can add a maths component to the game. For each colour you match you get one point. If you can match two or three colours in one go you get a point for each colour you match. You’ll need a piece of paper to keep score as you play, which is great for practicing simple addition.

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You can have so much fun with a simple set of coloured hexagonal cards!

Download a set of Free Printable Hexi Cards

Hexi Cards download

You can download the free printable Hexi Cards here.

Simple download the pdf file, print a few copies on to some cardstock, and let your kids explore with them.

This printable is an A4 sized pdf file, you will need a pdf reader such as adobe acrobat to open it. If you are printing on US ‘letter sized’ paper be sure to select ‘fit’ or ‘shrink to fit’ from your printer options.

Please remember that the printables at picklebums.com are for personal use only, you may not sell, share, or link directly to these files.


What will you do with these Hexi Cards?

We’d love to see how you play with them so feel free to pop over to my facebook page and share a photo.

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33 Comments

  1. I used to play with a similar set when I was little – I seem to recall that each vertex had a third of a coloured flower printed on it and when all were lined up it looked like a flower garden. I had forgotten all about that till just now – thank you for reminding me!

    1. oh making flowers sounds like an awesome idea!! I wonder what other versions I could make with added shapes… hmmm how you have got me thinking!!

    1. how cool would it be to invent a game that is sold all over the world!?!? Though I suspect I am not the only to have had this brilliant idea! LOL

  2. I found these on Pinterest earlier today and printed them out immediately for my three year old. he loved them and played with them for the last half hour before dinner. Thank you!

  3. Those are so beautiful and fun! I can’t wait to try them with my preschoolers. I know they are going to have lots of fun learning their colors with it. Pinned! Thank you.

  4. This is fabulous! My printer is broken! grr! But these are in the ‘to print’ file!! :) Woo! Thanks..sharing now!

  5. You are so clever Kate! Thanks so much for making these a printable and sharing with us…pinning now!!

  6. Get out. These are soooo cool! I cannot believe we just ran out of ink in my printer, but I’ll pin this and print them out tomorrow. My 3 year old will be thrilled to mess around with these!

  7. Thank you for sharing. Hopefully I can use these later to entertain my son when the new baby arrives.

    Just like a previous comment, I also used to play Continuo, both the square and triangle versions. Hexagons are new, though! :)

  8. OMG, thank you Kate, these are so awesome! I decided my daughters 2nd birthday would be a rainbow theme but I don’t have either the time, money or creativeness to do the stuff you find on pinterest. I’m going to print these and give out in the favour bags – I’ve been trying to think of something cheap but that is suitable for both the big and little kids – you have totally hit the jackpot!!!