Seasons and holidays
Fall Leaf Portrait
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Thinking sheet · Seasons and holidays
Egg Pattern Design
Decorate two eggs with bands of patterns: one with your rule, one with a partner’s rule.
- Grades
- K–3
- Time
- about 20 minutes
- Topic
- Seasons and holidays
- Kids practice
- patterns, following a rule, spring celebrations
What kids do
“Fill each egg with stripes of patterns. Can a partner guess your rule?”
- My pattern egg
- My partner’s rule
- My pattern rule is…
How to run it
- Draw three or four lines across each egg to make bands.
- Each band gets a different pattern.
- Swap and have a partner continue your rule.
Talk about it
- What is your rule?
- Was your partner’s rule easy to follow?
- What animals lay eggs?
Take it further
Design a whole carton of a dozen pattern eggs.
Pairs well with
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