Free Printable Spring Pattern Block Mats

These free printable spring pattern block mats are a great ‘print and go’ activity to celebrate spring!

Make a flower or two, an umbrella, and a kite flying in the spring breeze with these easy to print, spring pattern block templates.

Great for working on fine motor skills and math concepts, preschoolers and kindergartners will love combing shapes to create these fun spring themed pattern block pictures.

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Pattern blocks are a simple activity that encourages lots of different skills. They come in standard sizes and shapes -yellow hexagons, orange squares, red trapezoids, blue parallelograms, white rhombuses, and green triangles, and can be used in lots of different ways.

Working with pattern blocks is great for building fine motor skills and working on eye-hand co-ordination. They also offer lots of opportunities to work on visual discrimination, spatial reasoning and problem solving along with lots of math skills such as shape recognition and beginning geometry skills.

There are so many great ways to use pattern blocks with your kids!

Spring Pattern Blocks

These spring pattern block mats are perfect for a spring (or garden!) learning theme and a fun way to work on lots of different skills with your kids.

To use the spring pattern block templates simply print out the pattern block mats (scroll down for the printable links below) and grab a set of pattern blocks – this set from Melissa and Doug are great for at home, or this big container of pattern blocks is perfect for the classroom.

These magnetic pattern blocks are a great option for very young children as they lessen the frustration of the blocks moving around, and they’d be great for travel too! You can put the printable pattern block templates over the magnetic base and then build on top.

Using the Spring Pattern Block Mats with Preschoolers

Preschoolers and young children who are just beginning with pattern blocks will find the coloured pattern block templates the easiest the use.

These pattern block mats print to scale (see the printing instructions) so children can place the correct block directly onto the mat, copying the design to make the picture.

You can extend your child’s learning by talking about the colours and shapes of each block and show them how to ‘flip’ and ‘rotate’ blocks. Naming each shape is a great early math concept to work on and you could also count the number of blocks you use to make each picture.

Using The Spring Pattern Block Templates with Older Children.

Older kids love pattern blocks, they make a fun, hands-on maths activity for kindergarten and older grades.

Depending on their level and experience, older kids will enjoy using the coloured pattern block mats, or the outline pattern blocks for an extra challenge.

The outline pattern block mats print to scale (see below for printing instructions) so kids can build the pictures directly onto the mat, but they require a little extra thinking to decide which block fits the shape without the colours to help. This extra challenge is great for working on spatial awareness.

Older kids are able to identify the colour of each block, name the shapes, and count the number of each shape they used to make the picture. They will also love the challenge of coming up with their own fall pattern block designs to make and share.

Free Printable Spring Pattern Block Templates.

There are four different spring pattern block templates to choose from – two different flowers, an umbrella, and a kite. Each one comes in a full colour version and a version that is just the outlines.

These spring pattern block mats are made to scale, so the blocks printed on the templates are the same size as the actual pattern blocks, this means children can build on top of the mats if they would like to.

They are ready to print and go, simply click on the blue link in the box below each pattern block mat image to download it.

Instructions for Printing Pattern Block Mats

These printable pattern block mats are all A4 sized pdf files, you will need a pdf reader such as adobe acrobat to open them. They will fit to print on US ‘letter sized’ paper.

Please choose ‘Actual Size’ from your printer settings. Do not select ‘fit’ or ‘shrink to fit’ from your printer settings regardless of what size paper you are using. If you get a message saying ‘image is larger than the paper’s printable area’ you can safely ignore this so that the pattern block mats print at the correct size.

Please remember that the printables at picklebums.com are for personal use only, you may not sell, share, or link directly to these files.

More Pattern Block Activities.

Playing with pattern blocks is a fun and easy maths and fine motor activity and there are so many fun ways to use them! Try one of these pattern block ideas: