Monday, March 9, 2009

Updating The Practical Life Area For Spring

Embroidery...Sewing with yarn on mesh...

Clipping small clothespins on small buckets...



Cracking pistachios for snack...



Egg matching and sorting...


Sorting and opening a jar with lid...

Tonging...


Smaller tonging...


Spooning...




Flower arranging...















3 comments:

Shannan said...

may i ask where you got your tray and bowls that you are using for your pistachios work? they are beautiful! and, love that idea for snack!! scwells03@gmail.com

Namaste Montessori School said...

I find most of my trays and containers at yard sales and second hand stores. I'm pretty sure the bowls were once part of a salad bowl set and the tray was from a bathroom vanity set.

SurvivingByGrace said...

After reading about the clothes pins on another Montessori site, I bought some for my kids for Christmas from the Dollar Tree. Since then, a favorite activity for the now 24 month old is having me or the older kids fasten the pins to the clothes she is wearing and then she takes the pins off and begs to do it repeatedly. I even take the pins to doctor's appointments for entertainment. We also hung a small clotheline in our laundry room and the older kids like to hang anything on it with the pins - art, wet clothes, towels, etc.