Candy Corn and Pumpkin Patterns

Builds on: fine motor, sequencing

 

What you'll need:

25 pumpkin candy

25 candy corn

a shallow dish

What to do:

Mix the candies together and place it in a shallow dish. Sit with your kiddo and create a pattern with the corns and pumpkins like pumpkin, corn, corn, pumpkin. Instruct your little to repeat the pattern underneath. See if your Roo can figure out what would come next in the pattern if it were to continue.

If your kiddo is new to patterns you should start will simple patterns such as corn, corn, pumpkin or a longer row of a simple repeating pattern like pumpkin corn, pumpkin, corn, pumpkin, corn.Then build up from there as they start to get it. You can do longer lines or turn the corn to point different directions to make a pattern that has them pointing up, right, up, left, pumpkin (repeat).