Activities for Jenny Ten

Activities for two-dimensional shapes and patterns:

• Try some printing using fruit and vegetables. Create patterns using repeated types of fruit or the same fruit with different colours.
• Design some wallpaper using a repeating pattern.
• Look at wallpaper designs or fabric design, find where the sections of pattern start and finish.
• Look for patterns that change with colours or shapes or sizes.
• Create collages or mosaics using different items e.g. sweets, flowers, leaves, dried pasta, which involve repeating patterns.
• Put pegs on a washing line in a colour pattern, ready for use.
• Decorate cakes or biscuits with patterns of coloured jelly sweets.
• Arrange vegetables or fruit or cakes on a plate in a repeating pattern.
• Become a shape detective and go on a "Circle Walk". Spot, or draw, or take photos to record all the circles you find.
• Make shape biscuits or shape cakes using cutters.
• Make a shape dice, when you throw, your score is the number of sides on the shape. E.g. Circle - 1, semicircle - 2, triangle- 3, square - 4 etc.