Candy Cane Pattern

To create a pattern, we made some simple candy canes on Friday.  A simple red, white, red, white pattern is simple enough for them to understand and repeat.

The kids tore some red paper into small pieces to add to the candy cane.  It was kind of difficult for them to understand to skip a square in order to make the pattern. 

With a bit of help, they started to see what I meant.  We also looked at a real candy cane, but I'm not sure if they truly understood the point.  Well, alright then-- we are just making a candy cane.   Sometimes I just have to retreat as far as getting the point across.  They were all happy to create a candy cane!

They added some glitter glue to the red to make it sparkle.

Pattern or not, it was a simple project that looks festive on the art wall!

We had a family birthday party for Aiden last night, he enjoyed his chocolate with chocolate and extra chocolate cake!  The sides of it were crusted with mini chocolate chips and I had to store it in the fridge to keep it from melting.  I don't really like cake very much, but it was pretty good.

♥♥♥Happy Monday!♥♥♥