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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 read about this great idea for a Salt Shaker Scuplture at the very informative My Montessori Journey.
Material:
Pony beads contained in a bowl or basket. 5 or 6 pipe cleaners. An empty spice jar or salt shaker. Tray (optional, but useful to contain […]
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 32 months old.
From: I started doing this a while ago so that Sweet Pea could be involved in writing thank you notes for her gifts. After Christmas this year, we had several thank you notes to write.
Material:
Blank note cards and envelopes. (Target sells some cheap ones near their […]
Sweet Pea is 31 months old.
Sweet Pea has been asking for a bike ever since she saw her Grandpa riding one last summer. When we asked her what she wanted for Christmas, she begged for a “blue bike! blue bike!”, so Santa (Thank You Aunt Jackie!) brought Sweet Pea a balance bike […]
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 […]
Sweet Pea is 31 months old.
From: I bought a cheapo sticker & album set from the Dollar Store. When I gave it to Sweet Pea, she started sorting the stickers by color all on her own. I was pretty impressed that she had made up her own Tot School activity with it.
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Sweet Pea is 31 months old.
From: We got this set of 4 foam puzzles as a gift from Sweet Pea’s grandma.
Material:
Foam Puzzles (I couldn’t find the exact set that we were given. Here is a link to an uppercase and lowercase puzzle that Carissa from 1+1+1=1 recommends, plus […]
Sweet Pea is 31 months old.
From: I have seen similar ides is several places: Chasing Cheerios , Turning Ordinary Into Extraordinary and My Two Happy Homeschoolers.
Material:
About 20 Popsicle craft sticks. Markers. Several sheets of paper.
Procedure:
On three Popsicle sticks, write the word “TRIANGLE” in the middle and draw […]
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