Ghost Patterning Strips

Ghostly Patterning Strips are a great way to introduce your children to a number of skills. Patterning helps children learn about sequencing. It also invites them to make predictions as to how long and it what way the patterning will continue.

This patterning activity has a friendly ghost theme. Each of the ghosts was selected do kind nature. Some children think Halloween and ghosts are scary. The hope was that these ghosts won’t make your children nervous or afraid.

Getting the Ghost Patterning Strips

First, you download the set.

Ghost Patterning Strips Download

Second, if you don’t have Acrobat Reader please download it. The set is an Acrobat Reader PDF file.

Third, go to your download file and open the set.

Getting the Ghost Patterning Strips Ready to Use

Making the Ghostly Strips Last

If you plan on using the cards over and over again, you may want to laminate them. Below I have suggested products that you may want to use to cover them.

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Objects to Pattern With

Some of the links below are affilate links.

Ways to Explore the Patterning Strips

Each of the patterning strip pages has three strips on it. You could print out each page and cut out each strip. However you could give a child the whole page and have them complete each of the patterns displayed on the page.
If you choose to use the pages as worksheets, you can have your children draw their own patterning object on each ghost. Then they can place letters under each ghost to show the pattern that each strip displays.
Laminated or covered strips can be placed in a math center to be used over and over again. Even when children are working in a center setting it is important to check and if they are creating the pattern correctly.