Nursery Design a Woolly Hat: Pattern Mat

Design a Woolly Hat: pattern mat for paint or loose parts. Two big woolly hat outlines to decorate with stripes, spots and zigzags, using paint, pens or loose parts. Example hats show different patterns to inspire children. What’s included: • Teacher guide with Development Matters links. • Hat decorating mat with pattern ideas. Ideas for using it: • Stripe it: Make a stripy hat: red, white, red, white. • Spots and zigzags: Try a spotty or zigzag hat. • Real hats: Look at real woolly hats. What patterns can you see? • Hat shop: Display the hats in a winter hat shop. Linked to Development Matters (three and four-year-olds): • Explore colour and colour mixing. • Talk about and identify the patterns around them. For example: stripes on clothes, designs on rugs and wallpaper. Use informal language like ‘pointy’, ‘spotty’, ‘blobs’, etc. • Develop their own ideas and then decide which materials to use to express them. • Use a wider range of vocabulary. Supplied as a ready-to-print PDF (A4 landscape). Print, laminate and reuse all year.