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Sweet Pea is 4 years old. From: 3-part cards are another classic Montessori activity. I was excited when I found a free set of frog 3-part cards from the Montessori Print Shop and decided to try them right away. Material: A set of 3-part cards. Our first set was the Frog Nomenclature [...]   Sweet Pea is 4 years old. From: I first read about shoe polishing as a traditional Montessori activity in Maja Pitamic’s excellent book Teach Me To Do It Myself. Material: Uncolored shoe polish (We used beeswax sealer from The Walking Company, Montessori Services sells a natural shoe conditioner, and For Small Hands has a [...]  
Sweet Pea is 4 years old. From: This is a variation on the traditional Montessori “Walking on the Line” activity. Material: A roll of masking tape. Procedure: Tape a very long piece of masking tape to the floor. Place several other long pieces of masking tape on the floor that cross [...] 
Sweet Pea is 46 months old. From: This activity was in John Bowman’s new book Montessori at Home (I am giving away a copy here.) Material: Ruler. Table knife. 1 can of Play-Doh (You can also make your own, but a Play-Doh is very cheap so I don’t think it is worth the [...] 
From: Several months ago John Bowman contacted me and asked if he could use some of my Tot School pictures in his new book Montessori at Home. Now his book is finished and he has offered to give away a free copy to one of my lucky readers. Observations: This book is aimed [...]  
Sweet Pea is 45 months old. From: I saw a box of cocktail stirrers at Target and thought they would work for the Montessori spindle box activity. Material: 45 sturdy cocktail stirrers (We found ours at Target near the paper cups. I had to buy 2 boxes to get 45 stirrers.), Popsicle sticks [...] 
Sweet Pea is 43 months old. From: I found this really quick activity at Sunbeams and Sanity, who found it on Montessori for Everyone. Material: Curved or Straight Worksheet # 1 and Curved or Straight Worksheet # 2 (These are both .pdf files and require Foxit or Adobe Acrobat to view them.) You can [...] 
Sweet Pea is 41 months old. From: I saw this quick Pegging Pom-Poms activity on All Join In. Material: Clothespins. Ice cube tray. Pom-Poms or cotton balls. (You will need as many pom-poms as there are spaces in your ice cube tray.) Bowl or basket for the pom-poms. Procedure: Put the [...]  
Sweet Pea is 38 months old.
From: A couple of months ago, we tried to make our own rubbing plates out of hot glue and cardboard, but they did not work very well. When I saw a set of Roylco ready-made rubbing plates at Hobby Lobby, I thought we would give [...] 
Sweet Pea is 38 months old. From: This is another very simple idea from Teach Mama. Material: Paper. Hole Punch. Procedure: Show your tot how to carefully line up the piece of paper into the business end of the hole punch. Demonstrate squeezing the handles together to punch the hole. Next give [...] |
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