Heart Pattern Block Mats

These free printable heart pattern block mats are a great ‘print and go’ math activity for Valentine’s Day, or any time of the year!

Making these pattern block hearts is a great way to work on fine motor skills, math concepts and more. Print as many copies as you like, grab some pattern blocks and you are ready to play and learn.

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Pattern blocks come in sets with standard sizes and shapes -yellow hexagons, orange squares, red trapezoids, blue parallelograms, white rhombuses, and green triangles, and they can be used in lots of different ways.

Pattern blocks are a great hands on math activity that helps kids learn concepts such as shape recognition, counting, sorting, symmetry, geometry and fractions. Playing with pattern blocks also allows lots of opportunities to work on fine motor skills, visual discrimination, spatial reasoning and problem solving.

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

Valentine’s Pattern Block Activity

Ages:

2 years +

Learning Areas:

fine motor, math

Set up:

print and go!

For this fun Valentine’s Day pattern block activity, simply print out the heart 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.

For Preschoolers

For preschoolers and children who are just beginning with pattern blocks, the coloured pattern block templates are the best to start with.

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

For Older Kids

Depending on their level and experience, older kids will love the extra challenge of the outline only pattern block mats, but they’ll love the colored mats too!

The outline pattern block mats print to scale (see below for printing instructions) so you can build directly onto the mat, but they require a little extra thinking to decide which block fits the shape without the colours to help.

heart pattern block mat printable template outlines

Tips and Extension Ideas

Notice and name the colours of each pattern block, explain that each type of shape is the same colour.
Notice and name the shapes of the pattern blocks. For older kids you can also count the sides and corners (edges and vertices) of each shape.
Show beginners how to flip and rotate the pattern blocks to fit.
Count the number of each shape used to create each picture.
Encourage your kids to come up with new ways to make hearts from the pattern blocks, or make their own pattern block designs.

Free Printable Heart Pattern Block Mats

There are two different heart pattern block mats to choose from – one large heart, or two smaller hearts. Each pattern block mat comes in a full colour version and a version that is just the outlines.

These hert 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 you can build directly on top of the mats if you want to, making self correction easier.

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.

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