Pattern Caterpillar

A caterpillar game for spotting patterns

  • Ages 2–6
  • Logic
  • 2D game
  • Plays in the browser

A friendly caterpillar crawls in with a pattern on its body, like red, blue, red, blue, but one segment is empty. Your child works out what goes there and taps it. The segment fills in, the caterpillar does a happy wiggle and crawls away.

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Screenshot of Pattern Caterpillar, a caterpillar game for spotting patterns

How to play

  1. Look at the caterpillar’s body and find the empty spot with the question mark.
  2. Work out what repeats, and tap the color or picture that goes in the empty spot.
  3. Finish five patterns to complete the game and earn stars.

What your child learns

  • Spotting what repeats in a pattern
  • Predicting what comes next
  • Finding what is missing in a sequence
  • Telling colors and pictures apart

Grows with your child

It starts with two colors taking turns and asks what comes next, with two choices. Then come longer patterns such as AAB, ABC and AABB, patterns of fruit and animals, an empty spot in the middle of the body, and more choices.

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