Nature Pattern Strips

Before the snow starts to fly and everything is gone with the wind or buried, get some exercise and fresh air with your class or send a note home to parents to take a nature walk with their child.

While out and about have students spy patterns on their journey, i.e., leaf-twig-leaf, mum-tree-mum etc.

Arm each child with a large baggie and have them collect 3 of a kind of two different things, so they can return and make an ABABAB nature pattern.

I glued mine to 5 ½ x 12 strips of fall-colored scrapbook paper that was cardstock stiff.  You could also cut strips of colored tag board, use bulletin board border or sentence strips.

Using tacky glue, students arrange their treasures in a line in an AB pattern.  Let dry over night and then collage on a bulletin board.

This activity is lots of fun for them, so be prepared for your students to want to do more than one.

For cut and glue pattern activities take a look at my Pattern Booklet.