Pattern activities for children

Learning about patterns is an important children for children to master, helping them with early math and literacy skills. Here’s a great collection of fun pattern activities for children that you can use at school or at home.

 

Pattern activities for children

Being able to spot and create patterns are important skills that children will use as they being to develop their literacy and maths.

Here are some great pattern activities you can play now to help your child practise these skills in fun, hands-on ways.

 

 

Pattern activities for children

:: printing is a great way to explore patterns: print out your own or use this set of printable pattern cards

::  try  pattern play using felt shapes

:: learn patterns with LEGO®

:: try clothes peg pattern making

:: stamp patterns

:: this printable hundred chart is a good way to being making and spotting patterns in number sequences

:: use this ‘what comes next?’ printable to practise some more

:: threading beads on a pattern bracelet lets you work on counting out colour sequences

 

 

:: or you could thread a repeating pattern on a rainbow pasta necklace

:: Patterns aren’t only in straight lines of course. You can explore circular patterns by making mandalas out of shells

:: try nature mandalas in the garden

:: or give yourselves a treat with sweet waffle mandalas!