Color and Shape Patterns

Have your child read each pattern aloud, such as circle, star, circle, star, and clap at the start of each repeat. Then they draw the answer and read the whole row again to check that it still sounds right.

Draw and color the next shape in 8 patterns that change both shape and color, using a color key. The directions on the page read: Look at the shapes and colors in each pattern. Then, draw the next shape in the empty box. Then, color it to match the pattern. Use the color key to find each color. An answer key is included.

Yes, both. We made it for 1st Grade geometry, and the page works the same whether it lands on a kitchen table or a center rotation. At home, most families go through it together and talk the answers out loud, and that talking is where most of the learning happens with shape patterns. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

The pattern unit is the part of a pattern that repeats. In circle, square, triangle, circle, square, triangle, the unit is circle, square, triangle. Finding the unit first makes it easy to say what comes next, and one page asks children to ring the first unit in 8 patterns.

A growing pattern gets bigger by the same number of shapes at each step, such as 1, 2 and 3 triangles. On the growing patterns page children look at steps 1 to 3, draw step 4 and write how many shapes it has.

Each letter stands for one shape, and the same letter always means the same shape. AABB means 2 of one shape, then 2 of another, like circle, circle, star, star. The make your own page uses the letters so children build AB, ABC, AAB and ABB patterns from a circle, a square and a triangle.

Yes. All 10 sheets have an answer key with the answer shapes drawn in green. The make your own page shows a sample for each row, since answers will vary.