A wonderful group of blogs that emphasis hands on learning called Montessori Bloggers is hosting a link called Top 12 Montessori Activities in 2012. JDaniel has always learned through hands on learning and playing with concepts. This past year provided him with various montessori activities that required he interact with concepts hands on. Many were included in my Read.Explore.Learn. posts. Others were shared in my Taking Time to Play series. Finally others were shared in posts I wrote for other blogs.
If you have Montessori activities that you have written about and shared on your blog I hope you will link them up below.
Here are some on mine:
We explored Halloween safety rules and JDaniel explored how to follow them using the materials in this bin. The post was called Halloween Safety Rules and How to Review Them.
Placing bats alphabetically on a tomato cage that had been attached to clothes pins was one of the activities JDaniel did in a post called Baby Bats Lullaby- Read.Explore.Learn.
Hours were spent exploring this New Year’s Eve sensory bin. JDaniel and I explored it. He played with all of the contents and then he explained how to play them to his dad.
Early in the fall JDaniel and I gathered bits of nature at a local park. Then he tried to use various kitchen tools to transfer them from the kitchen table to a plate on the floor. We tried spatulas, chopsticks, a whisk, and several other tools. This activity appeared in the Kiwi Crate Studio. They called it Transferring with Tongs.
This simple weaving project was just supposed to be something JDaniel and I did one afternoon on our deck for our Christmas tree. The boy next door came over to see what we were doing and he ended up making a set to take home. They both loved that there wasn’t a wrong way to weave these ornaments. I shared this activity in a post called A Christmas Spider’s Miracle- Read.Explore.Learn.
Lisa @ Two Bears Farm says
JDaniel is going to be one smart kid in school, after all the enriching activities you’ve done with him at such a young age!
Dee says
These are great ideas!
The Activity Mom says
Love all of these. The bats on the clothes pins looks like so much fun (clever idea too).
The Dose of Reality says
Those are all such original ideas…love them! Am definitely going to try some with my girls! 🙂
Cerys Parker says
What a wonderful set of activities I love the sorting of buttons – must get out my button box for the kids
Sadie Ussery says
I love all these ideas. For sure going to use a few for my younger kids. Found you on SITS today!
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Michelle says
Love the Soup one!!! That sounds like so much fun and can be adapted for older children!
Blond Duck says
So much better than public school…(I went to one, so I know!)
melissa says
Wow! You have done so many wonderful things! I especially love the fall leaf transfer. I’m a big fan of transfer activities largely due to the fine motor practice they offer, but transferring from table to floor offers a gross motor element I’d never thought of. Great idea! So glad you decided to co-host! 🙂
~ Noelle says
you always have such fun (and educational) activities to do
Emma CakesandScribbles says
What a great round up! I love the corn painting. x