Yummy Food Patterns Worksheet for Preschoolers
This worksheet introduces pattern recognition — a core pre-math skill — by having children identify what food item comes next in a repeating sequence like apple-banana-apple-banana. Spotting and continuing patterns teaches children to predict what comes next based on a rule, an early form of the logical reasoning used later in math and science.
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Month 4: Learning & Development | Ages 4-5
This is page 34 of the pack. Ages 4-5 · Pre-KAges 4-5 · ReceptionAges 4-5 · LKGAges 4-5
About this worksheet
- Topic:
- Patterns
- Skill:
- Patterns: Identify and extend patterns.
- Pack:
- Page 34 of 42 in Month 4: Learning & Development | Ages 4-5.
How to use this worksheet
Look at the first row of food pictures together and say each item aloud in order to help your child hear the repeating rhythm. Ask them what they think comes next before they touch anything. Have them cut out the food pieces at the bottom of the page, then glue the correct one into the empty box to complete the pattern. Repeat for each row, checking the finished pattern by saying it aloud together.
Materials needed
- Scissors
- Glue
- Pencil
Extension activities
- 1Use real snacks, like crackers and grapes, to build and extend a food pattern at snack time.
- 2Give your child two colors of paper and have them create their own AB pattern to cut and glue.
- 3Ask your child to find a pattern somewhere in the house, like stripes on a shirt or tiles on a floor.
- 4Build a pattern using building blocks and ask your child to add the next three pieces.
- 5Clap out a sound pattern, like clap-stomp-clap-stomp, and have your child continue it.
Written by
Hemsweta Jain · Teacher Cheena
MBA and Early Childhood Educator, teaching since 2014 · Founder of RaisoActive, Mumbai
Every RaisoActive worksheet is designed and checked by the founder before publishing.
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