Complete the pattern worksheet
Four picture patterns on one page. Each row repeats, then stops at an empty box. The child works out the part that repeats and circles the picture that comes next. Pick your level and pictures, then print. Free, no account, no ads.
Patterns
Beginner is four simple two-picture patterns. Mixed adds longer repeats and a three-picture pattern, easiest first.
Pictures
A pattern needs at least two pictures, so you pick a pair rather than one. A third picture joins in on the three-picture pattern.
Orientation
Complete the Pattern
Look at the pattern. Circle what comes next.
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How it works
Each row shows a line of pictures that repeats, an empty box at the end, and three pictures underneath. The child reads the row from left to right, works out the part that keeps repeating, and circles the picture that belongs in the box. Nothing on the page marks the right one, so every row is real practice.
Why patterns matter
Spotting a repeating unit is the first piece of algebraic thinking a child does, years before any letters or numbers are involved. It is also one of the few early skills that needs no counting at all, which makes it a good place to start with a child who is not yet confident with numbers.
Start with Beginner, where every row repeats two pictures. Move to Mixed once that is easy: it keeps one simple row, then adds patterns that repeat three pictures, and finishes with one that uses three different pictures.
Where it fits
This sheet needs no counting, so it sits alongside the earliest sheets rather than after them. Count and color and color the correct number of objects build counting, compare the groups builds more and fewer, and picture addition and picture subtraction start on arithmetic. Where this sheet asks what comes NEXT in a sequence, identify the shapes asks the child to find EVERY shape in a row that matches a named one, with no sequence and nothing to predict. The kindergarten and grade 1 pages gather the resources for this age, and when written practice is the right level you can make a worksheet in seconds.
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