Circle, cross, circle, cross…
A pattern sheet a four-year-old wants to finish is most of the battle. Four worms a page, each with its own face, its own curl and its own pattern of shapes to keep going all the way to its tail.
Say the pattern, then draw what comes next.
A pattern worksheet generator, printable as a PDF. Four worms on every page, each body split into segments. The first segments show a pattern of shapes — circles, crosses, triangles, squares, hearts — and the rest are empty, for the child to draw the pattern on to the end. Pick how hard the patterns are: simple ones of two shapes (AB, AAB, ABB), medium ones with a third (ABC, AABB, ABAC), or tricky ones with four (ABCD, AABC, ABCB). Every worm on a page gets a different pattern, a different face and a different shape — back and forth, up and down, or coiled — and a new page draws them all again. The answer key fills every segment in.
1 token a sheet, fewer in batches.
US Letter PDF — prints on any home printer.
Say it
The shapes from the head: circle, cross, circle, cross.
Find
Where the pattern is up to at the first empty segment.
Draw
The next shape in every segment, all the way to the tail.
Patterns
Simple is AB, AAB and ABB. Medium adds a third shape: ABC, AABB, ABAC. Tricky has four: ABCD, AABC, ABCB. Every worm on a page gets a different one.
Your worksheet lands here — download, print, or email it.