Make Your Own Sequences Activity – Smilie Face Pattern

Literally every aspect of what children learn today can benefit from a solid background in pattern recognition. While it is obvious that math, language, music and sports are all heavily based on pattern recognition, there are many other day-to-day activities

Enjoy this brain / circle-shaped maze and remember that the second page of the PDF is the solution, so don’t peek! Holding a child’s visual attention can be a difficult thing. Their eyes and focus can drift often while learning,

Within the realm of children’s education there is so much of a focus on the core curriculum of math, reading and spelling that we sometimes overlook the skills necessary to actually develop that core. Practice with finding existing patterns at

While the majority of the lessons we will be covering here are pencil (or crayon) and paper drawings or sequences, it is a really good idea to try to replicate the lessons using real-world items or other household or environmental

Completing Sequences is a great way to develop pattern recognition skills in a child, but this activity adds another layer of interactivity for the student. Follow the directions on the page to have the child cut out all of the

Just the understanding that problems can be solved by looking for patterns can help children out dramatically. Understanding that counting by 2’s or 10’s can help them arrive at a solution faster than counting things one at a time can