Boohbah Pattern and Print



Create your own Boohbah pattern, print and color with crayons (perhaps use as gift wrapping paper for a friend?).

Learning opportunities

• Valuable for early math language and ideas.
  
• Experiencing cause and effect.
  
• Manipulation skills.
  
• Experiencing 360 degree rotation.
  
• Understanding same and different.
  
• Aesthetic sense and achievement.
  
• Affirming individuality through choice.
  
• Sense of pattern and color.
  
• Pencil control.
  
• Hand-eye coordination.
  
• Allowing experimentation and change.
  
• Opportunities for extended concentration.

Beyond the screen

• Encourages enjoyment in creating colorful patterns.

Questions

• How do you turn the Boohbahs upside down?
• Guess how many Boohbahs are in the big picture? Were you right?
• How many vertical/horizontal rows of Boohbahs are there in the big picture?
• Imaginative: I wonder if you can make a pattern which makes us laugh!