As my preschooler shows a lot of interest towards writing, I am doing more fine motor skill activities with her to strengthen those muscles. We put aluminium foil wrapped straws which were left over from our alumininum foil Easter egg wall art to good use. We made beads out of them and made aluminium foil beads necklace. We …
We have used vegetable mesh bag for painting and to develop problem solving skills. This time we used for fine motor skill, hand eye coordination and tripod grasp. Materials needed: 1. Vegetable mesh bag 2. Two bowls 3. Beans 4. Tape Cover one of the bowls with the mesh bag. Tape it on the sides of …
As soon as my toddler got comfortable with sorting, I introduced her to matching. She loves matching activities and everyday she asks for one. According to her it is called memory game. Still I am figuring out how she got that name. 1. Animal matching This is the first matching activity we did. I took …
This simple and fun activity kept my toddler busy for more than 10 minutes. I tore newspaper into pieces and put them into a vegetable mesh bag. I encouraged my daughter to take out the paper from the bag. Initially she tried to make the paper fall. But the bag had a long neck and …
We used Montessori at home with my seven year old till she was around five, when she was going to Montessori school. After she moved to traditional school for kindergarten, we moved to traditional method. We love Montessori and she still learns fast with materials rather than with concepts alone. We do not have any …