This was a completely accidental activity that turned into something really fun & festive (and of course educational). Don't you love those kinds of accidents?! I have been doing a lot of fall themed activities with Dutch, and I have been meaning to review patterns again but we keep running out of time. The other day all of our fall items were pulled out & it just hit me that I should use these to practice patterns again. Yes it seems obvious but it took a couple cups of coffee to become apparent to me :-/
I already had this pattern set downloaded because we used it in the spring (I want to say that I already blogged about it. But, if I didn't I meant to lol). It's really versatile so go ahead and download it here!
I already had all of these little fall items in my box of fall decorations but I'm sure you could find things like these at Hobby Lobby or Michael's. I used felt acorns, plastic pumpkins, acorns & leaves. I started the patterns & let Dutch finish them, and then I let him create some patterns for me to finish. It was really fun and he enjoyed it. He really liked to play teacher for me hehe
Isn't that such a fan hands-on activity to practice patterns while talking about fall? Try it with your little one & let me know what y'all think :-)
