Parents and Teachers, you can help children create and extend simple shape patterns using the following images. Work with your child to predict what appears next in the established pattern in each line. Predicting patterns is a major pre-literacy skill and a focal point in the mathematics curriculum. Just print this page or copy this image below and put it in a document for your students to complete, copy to a transparency to use on your classroom projector, or scan it for use in PowerPoint to create a large group activity for your classroom.