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Play dough sensory invitation to create molded cookie-cutters leaves is a perfect Autumn-inspired craft for toddlers, preschoolers and kindergartners. …

Halloween golf tee balancing is a fun Montessori Practical Life activity for preschoolers and kindergartners to promote hand-eye coordination, fine and gross motor control, balancing and coordination skills.

HALLOWEEN crafts, DIYs, learning, and sensory play PRESCHOOL Kids Activities to promote STEM, fine motor control, numeracy and literacy skills while exploring creativity through the power of play.…

Tactile sensory stimulation involves the sensation of touch and texture. Exposing children to sensory play helps them develop and refine the use of their senses. Most importantly, sensory bins provide hours of imaginative small world play,…

While Adrian has been able to correctly identify the first sound of the word for a while now; only a few months before his fourth birthday, he started to be able to isolate the…

In a Montessori "PBG" Language scheme (Pink-Blue-Green series approach), the child progresses very gradually as s/he is first introduced to three letter words in💗 PINK Series, then blends (/st/, /bl/, /pr/…) in 💙 BLUE…

Although Adrian knows his ABCs, "letter hunts" where he gets to walk around the house with a basket collecting objects that begin with a particular sounds are still one of his favorite activities. Today,…

Montessori Sandpaper letters are a traditional language material used to introduce a child to letters and their sounds, but with a twist: besides visual stimulation of perceiving the symbol (seeing the shape commonly agreed…

In a Montessori language curriculum, alphabet letters are not first presented to a child in an alphabetical order like A, B, C, D, etc. The idea is to introduce letters phonetically (the way they sound) rather than…

While most adults do not have a deep affection for bugs, children, on the other hand, spend hours in a backyard flipping over rocks and inspecting blades of grass in search of the coolest…