Amanda Belchunas

Fruit Loops Activity Lesson Plan

Subject: Mathematics
Age: 4-5 Years
Standards:
M3. Children begin to develop skills of recognizing, comparing, and classifying
objects, relationships, events and patterns in their environment and in everyday
life.
M5. Children begin to develop skills of sorting and organizing information, seeing
patterns, and using information to make predictions and solve new problems.
SEP 6. Children experience growth in fine motor development and use small
muscles to improve a variety of fine motor skills both in structure and
unstructured settings.
Learning Outcomes:
Students will sort cereal according to color.
Students will create a pattern with their cereal.
Students will use fine motor skills to string cereal onto a pipe cleaner in order to
make a bracelet.
Materials for Lesson:
Fruit Loops or other colored cereal
Fruit Loops Graph
Pipe Cleaners
Procedures:
Small Group:
Give each child a handful of Fruit Loops and a graph. Have students sort their
Fruit Loops and place in the corresponding column of their graph.
Ask children to compare which colors they had the most and least of. Ask if any
colors had the same amount.
Demonstrate how to make a pattern with different colors. Have each child make
a pattern with their cereal as they string pieces onto the pipe cleaner.
When they are finished, help children wrap pipe cleaners into bracelets, and ask
them to tell you their patterns.
Enrichment & Extensions:
Place materials in art center so that students can make additional bracelets. Provide
other materials for stringing, such as beads, noodles, and yarn.
Assessment:
As students are working, informally assess student progress, and take anecdotal notes.

Fruit Loops Graph

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