Rainbow Patterns with Blocks

We really enjoyed making these rainbow patterns with blocks. It was an excellent way to teach my son the colors in a rainbow and to practice patterning as well!

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We have been busy learning and playing with rainbows over the last few weeks. We played this fun Rainbow Hop game, we made a rainbow with colorful alphabet stickers, we used Froot Loops to thread a rainbow and we played a rainbow counting game, just to name a few!

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We still had some rainbow fun left in us though. This time we decided to use blocks to make rainbows. The blocks look very similar to Lego Duplo blocks, but they are actually Mega Bloks Math Blocks (affiliate). One box has 10 different colors and 10 blocks of each color, so they are great for patterning activities and other math concepts. You could also use Mathlink Cubes. (affiliate)

I started by making a model rainbow pattern for Evan to look at and follow. I added a white block to each end of the rainbow to represent clouds.

He looked at my model and made his own to match. Then we decided to make a bunch of rainbows. Eventually we had to make them without clouds because we didn’t have enough white blocks.

We decided to make 10 rainbows since we had 10 blocks of each color. We practiced counting while doing this. Evan wanted to count how many rainbows we had all together each time we finished making one.