Pattern People Craft for Kids: Easy and Fun

Here’s a fun craft idea for kids to do during arts and crafts time. Moreover, this is fun and great for kids to think creatively and learn about shapes and patterns. Also, Kids can get active with activities like cutting, coloring, and drawing through this craft. So let’s see what this pattern craft idea is?

What is Pattern People Craft?

To create this craft, you will need patterned squares. Therefore, you can get the patterned square templates you need for it for free below. To further encourage children to be creative with this craft, you can use templates with squares that don’t have patterns. So, all the children have to do is draw the patterns, color them, glue them, and add more to create a human figure. The fact that this design can be created using very few materials is also a special feature of this activity.

What benefits can children get from this activity?

• Fine Motor Skills Development

• Developing Creativity

• Identifying Shapes and Patterns

What you need for this activity:

How to Create “Pattern People Craft”:

Step 1: Print the templates

• First, print the templates provided to you. Here you can choose to print the squares with or without patterns.

• Also, if you want to color them, print on white printer paper. Otherwise, you can print these templates on colored paper. Use different colored papers for that.

Step 2: Draw the pattern on the empty squares

• If you printed the patterned squares, skip this step.

• Draw the pattern on the empty squares you printed. Here, draw one type of pattern on each square.

• To do this, give children the freedom to draw a pattern of their choice.

Step 3: Color the pattern squares

• Follow these steps if you did not print on colored paper. If you have already printed the templates on colored paper, you do not need to color them.

• Printed pattern squares or drawn pattern squares need to be colored. To do this, use different colors to color each square.

• Also, use a coloring medium suitable for the youngest children, for example, pencils, markers or colored pencils.

Step 4: Cut out the Square pieces

• Next, you need to cut out the colored or printed squares separately.
• To do this, use scissors and carefully cut along the outline of the square.
• Provide adult assistance for children who need help cutting.

Step 5: Cut out the face, arms, and legs from colored paper:

• Choose a colored paper that matches the human skin tone. White, light orange, brown, or pink would work well for this.

• Then cut out a circle for the head. Then cut out the arms and legs as you wish.

Step 6: Make the background for the patterned square man:

• The best color for the background is black.

• So get a piece of black paper of A4 size or larger.

• On this black paper, you will do the following steps.

Step 7: Arrange the square pieces and paste them

Now, take the square templates you cut out and glue them vertically, overlapping each other.

Step 8: Paste all parts

• Finally, glue the cut-out face on top, arms on the sides, and legs on the bottom.

• Then, let the children draw eyes, a mouth, and hair on the face using a marker.

Step 9: Display your final craft:

• Display the crafts your children make on the wall or on a bulletin board.

Pattern People Craft Templates:

Click here to get the free PDF template: Download