Identifying and Creating Visual Patterns

Reading and Materials List

Required Books

• Busy Bugs: A Book About Patterns by Jayne Harvey

Materials

Common Materials

• handwriting paper (kit)
• scissors
• Caterpillar Patterns game (kit)
• markers or crayons
• colored strips die-cuts (kit)
• glue or tape
• attribute blocks
• materials to make a variety of patterns
• construction paper (kit)
• Legos or pennies and nickels
• counting bears or small items such as Legos, pennies, paper clips, or beads

Lesson 1

• crayons, markers, or colored pencils
• tape or glue

Lesson 2

• A and B die-cuts (kit)
• beads or coins* (2.3 - optional)

Lesson 3

• black marker
• glue

Lesson 4

• forks and spoons
• circle and square die-cuts (kit)
• crayons, markers, colored pencils

Lesson 5

• beads (kit)
• dot stickers (kit)
• tape* (5.2 - optional)
• yarn (kit)

Lesson 6

• thick paper or foam* (6.2 - optional)

Lesson 8

• journal

Final Project

• 2 poster boards

* - denotes an optional material that may or may not be used