A pattern is something that repeats over and over. Red, blue, red, blue is a pattern. Circle, square, circle, square is a pattern. Patterns are everywhere in art, in clothes, in nature, and in buildings. You can make your own patterns with colors, shapes, and lines!
Start with simple AB patterns using two colors or shapes. Use stamps, stickers, or beads to make physical patterns. Clap patterns with your hands. Point out patterns on clothes, floor tiles, and wallpaper. Challenge children to continue a pattern you start.
A pattern is when something repeats in the same order. Think of a striped shirt: blue stripe, white stripe, blue stripe, white stripe. That is a pattern! Once you start looking for patterns, you will see them everywhere.
You can make patterns with colors. Try painting red, yellow, red, yellow across your paper. You just made a color pattern! You can make it fancier by using three colors: red, yellow, blue, red, yellow, blue. The important thing is that the order repeats.
You can make patterns with shapes too. Draw a circle, then a square, then a circle, then a square. That is a shape pattern. You can combine colors and shapes: blue circle, red square, blue circle, red square. Now you have a pattern that uses both color and shape at the same time!
Patterns make art look organized and beautiful. When you decorate a border around your drawing with a repeating pattern, it frames your art like a picture frame. When you stamp a pattern across paper, it becomes wrapping paper. Quilts, tiles, wallpaper, and fabric all use patterns. When you learn to make patterns, you are learning something that artists and designers use every single day.
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