This is a great at-home Montessori practical life work for toddlers, starting around 16-18 months, through around 2.5 years old. All you need is an empty spice jar, toothpicks, and your toddler for this activity. Click to watch the video!
This preschooler-DIY rainbow fruit salad is inspired by Alex and Leah’s “Rainbow Salad” on Signing Time. Make it a Montessori lesson at home!
These handmade gifts for toddlers (or preschoolers) are perfect when you want to give a child a gift that’s a bit more personal, meaningful, or special.
This year for Halloween, I wasn’t quite ready to let the kids go at their pumpkins with knives, even those kid-safe tiny pumpkin carving ones.
Want an “If You Made a Million” Activity to do with your kids or students? Try this penny-cleaning Montessori work. With extensions for art & science.
My 4 year old loves to do her own little craft projects. She draws, does “scribble-scrabble writing”, traces, cuts, rips, glues, and explores the materials
In our house, the playroom is for imagination, for open-ended toys, for free exploration. We have dress up clothes (mainly play silks and scarves), building
It takes more planning. More time. More setup and cleaning afterward. It takes attention and effort to teach them skills and techniques.
But it’s worth the extra effort.
Get your kids in the kitchen and make these delicious crispy Greek potatoes!
I missed so much blogging during the last leg of our move. A lot happened and I might catch up later. But for now, let
This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Dollar General. All opinions are 100% mine. My 3 year old is so excited
Lately, my daughter has been more into Real Kitchen Stuff. Wanting to help wash, peel, and cut fruits and veggies. Stirring and pouring. Wearing her little apron. Sweeping and cleaning spills. And standing inside the refrigerator, door open, scanning for snacks. So I figured it was time for a fully-functional toddler kitchen.
I’m teaching my 2 year old how to sew, and from the way she was dancing around today singing, “Pupple em-boy-dee! Pupple em-boy-dee!” I have hope that someday my daydreams of crafting together will come true.
Part of why the “twos” can be so “terrible” is because these quick-growing toddlers are starting to realize they're their own person, and they want
What is Montessori? Maria Montessori created a framework for education which focuses on independence and freedom within boundaries, “following the child” (respecting the child as
One way to save on a lot of frustration in the toddler years is to encourage the independence these little people so fiercely desire. When
One of the things my husband and I decided to do as Anneliese’s second birthday approached (it’s today!) was to change her room around a
I’ve had the Montessori baby room tour linked in the sidebar of the blog for…forever. But we haven’t even been living in that house for
This handmade Matryoshka project took about a week of evening sketching and painting, but the labor of love was well worth it! A little rainbow nesting doll set for my daughter was the result, and I hope she loves playing with it as much as I loved nesting dolls when I was a kid.
Here’s another little gift I made for Anneliese. I haven’t really made much of an effort to hide them as I made them, because she’s
For a long time (since she has been sitting up), I’ve been meaning to create a treasure basket for Anneliese. Full of things that are
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