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Caterpillar Pattern Activity for Kids
early math skills
Learning and understanding patterns is an important early math skill and helps children understand complex number concepts and math operations.
The ability for children to recognize, extend and create patterns are critical for noticing math patterns in their future learning.
Working with patterns also increases a child’s critical thinking skills as well as their ability to reason logically.
This pattern activity for kids uses a cute caterpillar to help teach kids about patterns and includes a FREE Printable.
purpose
Recognize patterns
Extend patterns
Recreate patterns
Create patterns independently
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directions
Caterpillar Pattern Activity
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Explain the ABAB pattern to your child
Ask your child to extend the patterns on the caterpillar using pom-poms to paint the circles
Invite your child to create their own ABAB pattern on the blank caterpillar
Introduce the ABB pattern
Ask your child to first extend the pattern on the caterpillar by pom-pom painting the circles
Invite your child to create their own pattern on the blank caterpillar
Repeat the above steps with the ABC pattern
