Little Steps Care · Autumn workshop

Finish my sequence

Alternate large and small leaves. Ask someone to finish the sequence and invent a new pattern.

  • 4–6 · 6–8 years
  • About 10 minutes
  • Maths & patterns

What will your child practise?

Recognise a repeating pattern and predict the next two places.

What you need

At least four large and four small fallen leaves.

Step by step

  1. Lay out large, small, large, small. Say the pattern aloud and choose the next two leaves.
  2. Remove a leaf from the middle. Let a partner fill the gap and check from the start.
  3. Invent a three-place repeat, such as small, small, large. Ask the other child to continue without telling them the rule.