Toilet Roll Printed Patterns

This week we have been having fun with a collection of toilet rolls which had built up in our recycling. using items from around the house for printing activities is a great way to spice up painting play and to make maths fun.

Resources:
Tray for the paints
Poster paints
Toilet rolls
A large sheet of paper

I started off the pattern for Little man as you can see below. I made three different types of pattern's getting harder with each one. I named the colour's along with little man to help him recognise the patterns and asked him what colour would come next.

This did take Little man a while for little man to get the hang out of but i think there are lots of idea's out there for making patterns so I'm sure with some more practice he will get it.

To help him think what to add next we repeated saying what the pattern was and waiting for him to say what was coming next and this seemed to help. It was nice to do a bit of structures play with him and it was even nicer for him to finish his picture by using lots and lots of paint and using the toilet roll to smear across the paper afterwards.