AB Pattern with Body Parts

Finish the pattern. On this Kindergarten worksheet two body parts — say a hand, a foot and an ear — repeat in a steady AB rhythm down a row of wagons, and the child fills the blanks to keep it going. Reading a simple alternating pattern and extending it is early pattern-recognition, the thinking that helps a child make sense of order and sequence. The familiar pictures keep the task about the repeat, with nothing to add up.

The value of an AB pattern is its clarity: two pictures, one simple rule, endlessly extendable. A Kindergarten child practises finding the rule and carrying it forward — the heart of patterning — and the familiar body parts keep the focus on the rhythm rather than on figuring out the pictures.

Children who get the hang of the AB back-and-forth start predicting the next picture at a glance, and finishing a clean alternating train feels satisfying, a small and clear early win. When this feels easy, try the pattern in ab pattern with breakfast, or ab pattern with clothes. You can also browse every pattern worksheet or the whole kindergarten collection — each sheet prints cleanly or plays online for free, and the more two-part patterns a child completes, the readier they are for patterns where a picture starts to double — the natural next step up the ladder.