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Sticker Shapes

Sweet Pea is 34 months old. (Oh, I groan every time I have to increment this.  How bittersweet.)

From: I found this idea on the very useful Confessions of a Homeschooler blog.  We originally used the shape tracing template (.pdf file requires Foxit or Adobe Acrobat) from Coloring Castle.

Material:

My shape outline worksheet or use [...]

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Color Tablets, Box #2

Sweet Pea is 33 months old.

From: Color Tablets are another traditional Montessori activity.  I found a simple version of this activity in the book Teach Me To Do It Myself by Maja Pitamic and another good description in Basic Montessori: Learning Activities for Under-Fives by David Gettman.

Material:

12 color tablets, which can be purchased (high quality [...]

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Color Tablets

Sweet Pea is 33 months old.

Sorry, I accidentally published a draft of this post and it obviously isn’t done, yet.  Just consider this a preview.    In the meantime, have you read My Montessori Journey?  I get lots of great ideas from there.

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Melissa & Doug Shape, Model and Mold

Sweet Pea is 32 months old.

From: Our good friends gave Sweet Pea this Melissa & Doug Shape, Model and Mold Clay Set for Christmas.

Observations: The set comes with 4 different colors of dough and several wooden tools for rolling, cutting and stamping it.  Sweet Pea really loves everything about this kit and has played [...]

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Spooning Hearts

Sweet Pea is 32 months old.

From: In honor of Valentine’s Day, I thought we’d do something with hearts.    This is a traditional Montessori activity that involves spooning objects from one location to another. I have read about something similar on many, many other blogs, so when I spotted these cute heart shaped [...]

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Animal Counting Cards for Milk Cap Numbers

Sweet Pea is 33 months old.

From: These are cards I developed to be used with milk cap numbers.  (I promise this is the last one of these number cap activities for a while!)

Material:

Milk cap numbers 1 through 4 (Instructions and templates located here).
MCN Fish 1-4
MCN Dogs 1-4
MCN Cats1-4
MCN Butterfly 1-4
MCN Bunnies 1-4
MCN Birds 1-4
MCN Snails [...]

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Sweet Pea is 33 months old.

From: After creating the milk cap numbers, this was the first activity I devised to go with them.  We did not have a whole lot of luck with these worksheets, but I wanted to post them because I thought that they might be useful for other tots.

Material:

Milk cap numbers 1 [...]

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