Key Resource: How Montessori Practical Life Prepares Your Child for Mathematics

Top 10 Practical Life Activities Download

Ages 3 to 4:

  • Meal or Snack Preparation: slicing vegetables, fruit, cheese, etc. (see below)
  • Baking: measuring and mixing ingredients.
  • Kitchen Care: loading and unloading the dishwasher, washing dishes by hand, sweeping floors.
  • Pet Care: walking, playing with, and grooming.
  • Dusting: the leafs of plants with a soft cloth or furniture around the house (see below).
  • Nature walks in the yard or about the neighborhood with a list of things to find.
  • Walking on the Line: make a masking tape line throughout the house and walk carefully on the line.
  • Art: coloring, painting, collage, sidewalk chalk, Play-Doh (try making basic shapes,) Neighborhood Rainbow Scavenger Hunt, Carrot Collage (see below).
  • Cutting and gluing – for example, find and cut all of the plants in a magazine; glue into a collage.
  • Sewing shapes/pictures onto napkins, hand/kitchen towels, etc.
  • Grind egg shells for your garden (see below).

Snack Ideas:

Mason Jar Ice Cream Download

Carrot Salad Download

Cheese Crackers Download

Healthy Cacao Balls Download

Hide and Seek Muffins Download

Lemon Biscuits Download

Ants-on-a-Log Recipe Download

MAKE A CARDBOARD BIRD FEEDER:

MISS PAM’S CARDBOARD BIRD FEEDER

Download instructions:

Make a Cardboard Bird Feeder Download

ACTIVITY DIRECTIONS:

Nature Faces Download

Water Color Resist Painting Download

Nature Hunt Bingo Download

Coil Pot Download

Button Flowers Download

Spring Fingerprint Art Download

Spring Cleaning Download

Fruit or Vegetable Download

Shriveled Potatoes Download

How to Tie a Knot Download

Plant a Window Garden Download

How to Make a Paper Chain Download

How to Do a Leaf Painting Download

Sculpt Basic Shapes Download

Making Play-Doh at Home Download

Neighborhood Rainbow Scavenger Hunt Download

How to Make a Carrot Collage Download

Mirror Polishing

Instructional Video with Miss Colleen

Egg Shell Grinding

Instructional Video with Miss Pam

 

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Care for Plants

Instructional Video with Miss Pam

AGES 5 TO 6:

Any of the above plus:

  • Cutting (advance searches: mammals, birds, amphibians, etc.)
  • Baking: reading, measuring, and mixing simple recipes.
  • Origami (see below).
  • Handwork: crocheting, finger knitting, or sewing words, initials, or pictures on napkins, hand towels, etc. (see below).

Baking & Kitchen

Blueberry Muffin Recipes Download

Pretzel Recipe Download

How to Set a Table Download

No Bake Energy Balls Download

Science Activities

Natural Gas Experiment

With Miss Colleen

Natural Gas Experiment Written Instructions Download

DANCING RAISINS

Dancing Raisins Experiment Instructions Download

ART ACTIVITY DIRECTIONS

Make a God’s Eye Download

Origami Bird Download

Spring Fingerprint Art Download

How to Make a Paper Bead Necklace Download

Simple Origami Rabbit Download

KNITTING AND WEAVING ACTIVITIES:

For your 4.5 year old and older, here are some knitting and weaving activities your child might enjoy.  These activities are beneficial for building on your child’s ability to concentrate for long periods of time.  Also wonderful for strengthening fine motor skills. The finger knitting and knitting fork would be a great place to start.

Easy Cardboard Circle Weaving Download

Weaving on a Cardboard LoomDownload

Thank you also to Tokyo Montessori and Arbor Montessori School for additional content, as well as the numerous Montessori collaborators worldwide who have helped supply ideas and activities that we could pull from. This journal is a testament to the spirit of cooperation and work in service to the children of the world.