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Sweet Pea is 34 months old.
From: A lot of our activities are really spontaneous like this one. I had my hand poised above a trash can, about to toss away some scrap paper from one of my own craft projects when Sweet Pea asked if she could look at them. She was […]
Shannon’s Note: This is a guest post from my friend Lori, who worked as a preschool teacher for 3 years and now enjoys staying home with her daughter.
E.G. is 18 months old.
Materials:
2 Sheets Glad Press’n Seal or Contact Paper Tempera Washable Paints Scissors (for the grown-up) Q-Tips (optional)
Procedure:
Line […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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!) If you want something with larger numbers (up to 10), try my animal counting worksheets (which can be cut […]
Sweet Pea is 32 months old.
From: I know that spreading something with a knife is a common Montessori activity, but I am not sure where I first read about it.
Material:
Egg salad, cream cheese, jelly or any other food item that spreads easily. A small bowl to contain the spreadable item. Several […]
Sweet Pea is 32 months old.
From: I can’t remember where I saw these first, but I ordered some from the Oriental Trading Company several months ago.
Material:
Pegs and a Peg Board
Observations: I tried to show these to Sweet Pea several months ago, but I couldn’t really get her interested […]
Sweet Pea is 31 months old.
From: This was created in a frazzled moment of “I barely have time to feed us, much less do a Tot School activity, because I have way overextended myself this holiday season.” This is a quick activity for those times when you are rushing around the […]
Sweet Pea is 31 months old.
From: I had an old box of Crayola Model Magic which mentioned sticking objects to the material so this seemed like a good project for us. And I always have beans on hand. At first Sweet Pea just stuck the beans into flat pieces of the Model […]
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