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MY FIVE SENSES

Finding Patterns
Children will use their sense of sight to explore patterns.

Lesson Objective
Children will use their sense of sight to explore patterns and create patterned artwork.
(Art) Art
What You'll Need
- A large, color reproduction or digital image of (External) Beaded Crown (Adé) from the North Carolina Museum of Art website
- Items with simple patterns (such as clothing, fabric swatches, gift bags, and so forth for display)
- 12" × 18" construction paper (1 per child)
- 4" × 18" construction paper strips (2–3 per child)
- Construction paper scraps or pre-cut circles, squares, and triangles in multiple colors
- Scissors
- Glue
What To Do
- Discuss with the children what makes a pattern (see Vocabulary).
- Display the patterned items, and discuss with the children which of their five senses they will need to use to examine these items (see Guiding Student Inquiry).
- Have the children describe the patterns (see Guiding Student Inquiry).
- Ask the children to look at their clothing and discuss any item of clothing that has a pattern.
- Display the image of Beaded Crown (Adé), and ask the children what they see (see Guiding Student Inquiry).
- Discuss what a crown is and who would wear a crown (see Did You Know?).
- Tell the children that they will be making a crown with a pattern on it.
- On a strip of construction paper, demonstrate gluing pre-cut shapes in a pattern. Make 2 construction paper patterned strips.
- Glue the 2 strips on a sheet of 12" × 18" construction paper. Staple the paper into a crown that can be worn.
- Distribute paper strips, scissors, glue, and pre-cut shapes.
- Have the children make 2 pattern strips and glue them on a sheet of 12" × 18" construction paper.
- When the glue is dry, staple the construction paper into crowns that can be worn.
Resources
Home School Resources
Home educators: use these printable lesson PDFs to teach this lesson to your home schoolers. They're available in English and Spanish.
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Common Core State Standards Initiative – These lessons are aligned with the Common Core State Standards ("CCSS"). The CCSS provide a consistent, clear understanding of the concepts and skills children are expected to learn and guide teachers to provide their students with opportunities to gain these important skills and foundational knowledge [1]. (External) Visit the CCSS