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Painting a Negative Space Silhouette

Sweet Pea is 28 months old.

From: The results of this water color resist project at 4 Crazy Kings looked so appealing that I just had to try it.

Material:

Digital camera.
Re-positionable laminating sheets or removable contact paper.  (I preferred the laminating sheets.  You can NOT use regular contact paper.)

3 or 4 different colors of non-toxic [...]

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Melissa & Doug - Cutting Food Box

Sweet Pea is 27 months old.

From: We bought this Melissa & Doug Cutting Food Box at a local toy store.

Observations: This set contains a wooden knife and cutting board, along with several painted wooden food items.  Each piece of food is composed of several sections that are held together with Velcro.   [...]

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Sorting Colored Pom-Poms with Tongs

Sweet Pea is 27 months old.

From: I saw these nesting multi-colored gift boxes and thought they would make an excellent color sorting activity.

Material:

Several different colored containers (I bought my gift box set from the party section in Hobby Lobby, but think that colored toddler bowls or nesting cups would work well too.)
25-30 Pom-poms which [...]

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Stencils

Sweet Pea is 27 months old.

From: This was inspired by my desire for a set of  Montessori Insets, which are a bit out our price range right now.  (The Montessori Primary Guide has a good description of how to use insets in the Montessori style.)

Material:

Any sort of plastic or metal stencils.  (Most of the craft [...]

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A Life-Size Portrait

Sweet Pea is 27 months old.

From: I got the idea for making a life-size portrait from this tot school post on The Shafer Family blog.

Material:

A large sheet of paper at least as long as your tot is tall.  (I suggest using a roll of craft paper or butcher paper, but you could probably just tape [...]

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Gluing Sand to Paper

Sweet Pea is 27 months old.

From: I saw a glue stick next to us while we were drawing in the sand tray and thought, “Hey, why don’t we try gluing the sand onto some paper?”

Material:

Non-toxic sand.
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Sweet Pea is 27 months old.

From: A traditional Montessori lesson involves showing children how to draw letters in a tray of salt.  I saw this activity using sand instead of salt at Chasing Cheerios.

Material:

Strong shallow box or a jelly roll pan.
Non-toxic sand or salt to cover the bottom of the box.

Procedure:

Pour the sand [...]

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