ABB Pattern with Musical Instruments

This Kindergarten worksheet shows an ABB pattern of instruments — the second picture appearing twice for every one of the first — and leaves wagons blank for the child to complete. Working out a three-picture unit where the trailing picture doubles builds deeper pattern-awareness, the rule-finding readiness skill, and keeps a child noticing precisely which element repeats.

The skill here is reading a three-part repeat where the second picture comes twice. That precise unit-tracking is foundational Kindergarten readiness, and a doubled-second instruments sequence keeps it a pure looking-and-reasoning task — the child finds where the double falls, never counts.

Children who catch the ABB beat — one picture, then a doubled second — get sharper at noticing exactly which picture repeats, and a finished train is satisfying, proof that patient, close looking really pays off. When this feels easy, try the pattern in abb pattern with community helpers, or abb pattern with reptiles and amphibians. You can also browse every pattern worksheet or the whole kindergarten collection — each sheet prints cleanly or plays online for free, and the more doubled-pattern trains a child finishes, the readier they are for longer, four-part patterns that build on these doubled beats, one rung further along.