Walking down the street looking around there are so many patterns in the neighbourhoods around us. From the sidewalks, the escalators, to windows on a house their never seems to be a place where you can’t see patterns. The first pattern I noticed was the bricks on my house as I walked out the door. The bricks on my house are rectangular in shape, and have reds, and browns in their colour. The bricks line up horizontally across the outside of my house. After noticing the brick pattern on my house I began to look at other houses around me and their styles. There are so many different patterns and styles made with bricks. Patterns surround us.
In the Patterns I found, I noticed that they held balance. Balance can be achieved in two different ways. One is through being, Symmetrical. This is where shapes are evenly or equally balanced around some point, up or down, right or left, horizontally, vertically, radially, or diagonally. The other way is through being Asymmetrical, where objects are not evenly balanced around a point. But using space can balance out a picture.
The bricks that i found all represented symmetrical balance.
ACTIVITY: Sponge Painting!
If you were to have a discussion with the children in your class about the patterns you see around the neigbourhood , bricks may be one of the patterns they notice. You could then have the kids in your class experiment with pattern making, using sponges and paint. You could provide the class with different shaped square and rectangle sponges to see what kind of brick patterns they can make. Give them different colour paint and they could make even more complex patterns with the colours they use as well.
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Reference: Schirrmacher, R., & Fox, J.E. (2009). Art and creative development for young children (6th Ed.). Belmont, CA: Delmar
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