"The objects, which I gave the children, were like a key to a clock, but with a significant difference. After is is wound, the clock continues to run by itself, and after a child is given an object to use, he not only continues to work with it, but his efforts leave him mentally stronger and healthier than before."
--Maria Montessori
Juice cup prisms
Noisemakers filled with grain
Tuna can, balloon, tape
tp roll stapled in different directions
(thank you to my Montessori music teacher)
Practical Life
Little BoPeep
Matching
Other examples of Montessori matching activities
Twinkle, Twinkle
Transfer with Tweezers
Other examples of Montessori transferring with tweezers
(the ice cube tray is more practical than attractive)
Other Montessori
Lucy Locket
Bow tying
Another example of Montessori bow tying
Seek til You Find It
Mirror Polishing
(Turn the Q-tips to the bottom)
Another example of Montessori mirror polishing
Sensorial
Little Betty Blue
Olfactory (smell) Matching
Another example of Montessori olfactory work
Three Little Kittens
Fabric (Tactile) Matching
Other examples of Montessori fabric matching
Hickety, Pickety, My Black Hen
Thermic Ovoids
the metal one has a chime inside
(paper and stone, wood not shown)
Another example of a Montessori thermic work
(thermic relates to heat)
She Sells Seashells
Tactile
Other examples of Montessori tactile activities
Rough and smooth
Matching and sorting
Ring Around the Rosies
Tactile
Another example of something interesting to touch
Language
A Tisket, a Tasket
Writing (make rubbings)
Other examples of Montessori tactile letter activities
Sandpaper letters and moveable alphabet
This is the House that Jack Built
Sequence
Other examples of Montessori sequence materials
Math
Ride a Cock Horse
(Rings on her fingers, & bells on her toes)
Premath 1 to 1 Correspondence
(I would probably straighten the chain)
Other examples of Montessori 1 to 1 correspondence
Hot Cross Buns
Linear Counting/Addition (+1)
This would also work for 1 to 1 correspondence (see above)
The Queen of Hearts
Cultural
Old MacDonald
Vertebrate 3 part cards
Other examples of Montessori vertebrate/invertebrate work
(sorting & 3 part cards)
Other ideas
Flower Arranging
(Cut flowers. They place them in the green block)
Fruit Identification
Sensorial/Tactile (close eyes) or Language (vocabulary)
