![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/earlyyearslunnasting\/uploads\/sites\/3548\/2025\/12\/11161635\/IMG_8222-rotated.jpg\")
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/earlyyearslunnasting\/uploads\/sites\/3548\/2025\/12\/11161638\/IMG_8224-rotated.jpg\")
<\/p>\nToday we set up some winter pattern making activities at the tinkering table.\u00a0 Some of the children chose to copy some of the pattern examples, while others decided to create their own repeating patterns.\u00a0 There was lots of careful thinking and sorting as they experimented with what came next in their patterns.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Later on, we added a musical twist to pattern making and watched a very funny song called “Banana, meatballs”.\u00a0 We had to listen closely to the words and copy the movement patterns.\u00a0 It was lots of fun. ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/earlyyearslunnasting\/uploads\/sites\/3548\/2025\/12\/11161818\/IMG_8278-rotated.jpg\")
<\/p>\n
We then had a chance to make our own “banana, meatball” patterns and challenged our friends to see if they could copy our movement patterns.<\/p>\n
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/earlyyearslunnasting\/uploads\/sites\/3548\/2025\/12\/11162014\/IMG_8280-rotated.jpg\")
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/earlyyearslunnasting\/uploads\/sites\/3548\/2025\/12\/11162017\/IMG_8282-rotated.jpg\")
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/earlyyearslunnasting\/uploads\/sites\/3548\/2025\/12\/11162019\/IMG_8283-rotated.jpg\")
<\/p>\n
This was a fun way to help develop an understanding of sequencing and pattern making.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today we set up some winter pattern making activities at the tinkering table.\u00a0 Some of the children chose to copy some of the pattern examples, while others decided to create their own repeating patterns.\u00a0 There was lots of careful thinking and sorting as they experimented with what came next in their patterns. Later on, we… Continue reading Pattern Making 11 December 2025<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4444,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/earlyyearslunnasting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/earlyyearslunnasting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/earlyyearslunnasting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/earlyyearslunnasting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4444"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/earlyyearslunnasting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/earlyyearslunnasting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1137,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/earlyyearslunnasting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions\/1137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/earlyyearslunnasting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/earlyyearslunnasting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/earlyyearslunnasting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}