Play with pattern blocks
and learn geometric shapes!
The following pattern block activities present skills that children are taught during their early math years. Use these to encourage and stretch your child’s understanding of geometric shapes and their attributes. The activity cards engage children’s spatial awareness, their ability to create and complete patterns, and compare various shapes.
Pattern blocks come in six shapes in six different colors: yellow hexagons, orange squares, blue parallelograms, red trapezoids, green triangles, and tan rhombuses.
Use this handout to explain, teach, and explore symmetrical shapes and lines of symmetry.
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This handout introduces pattern blocks by name, shape, and color for children to categorize the designs they make in a table.
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Use this handout to practice building larger shapes using the pattern blocks.
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This handout discusses symmetry using everyday shapes.
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This activity card encourages children to use pattern blocks to outfit a turkey.
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Print these pages for your child to trace, cut out, and color their own pattern blocks.
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Have children create their own shape and then trade outlines to challenge their partner to fill in their creation.
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Learn about congruency and have children build bigger shapes with their pattern blocks.
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Explore rectangles and their attributes, then have child create their own.
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Use this activty card to practice completion and creation of patterns.
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Numerals made with Pattern Blocks:
