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Children will have fun building a home for the Three Little Pigs using this set of Three Little Pigs Pattern Block Houses. Once they have explored these, they may want to design a house of their own in the background without a house.

Getting the Three Little Pigs Pattern Block House Mats

First, you download the set.

Three Little Pigs Building Pattern Block Houses 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.

Reviewing the Shapes

Before giving the mats and pattern blocks to children, you will want to review each of the shapes displayed. The following shapes are on one or all of the mats.

Blue Parallelogram- This shape has four sides and four corners. The opposite sides of the shape are parallel.

Orange Square- A square has four sides that are the same length. It also has four corners that are the same.

Green Triangle- Triangles have three sides. They may not be the same length. The mats feature triangles that have sides that are all the same.

Yellow Hexagon- A hexagon has six sides. The hexagons on the mats have all the same length sides. They also have six corners or vertices.

Red Trapezoids– A trapezoid has four sides. Two of the sides are parallel to each other.

Tan Rhombuses- A rhombus has four sides. The opposite sides are parallel to each other. The opposite corners or vertices are the same.

Getting the Pattern Block Mats Ready

If you plan on using the mats 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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