Montessori Inspired Activities Galore

If you've been reading my blog for awhile now you probably already know that I have been slowly compiling a collection of Montessori Inspired Activities over at Tagfoot.

And if you weren't aware, well you certainly are now! I thought I'd just quickly remind you about my tagfoot page, whilst it doesn't have thousands of links to ideas, it does have over 200 ideas all categorised as best I could. In fact I was quite surprised to see that I had that many ideas added. I've been plugging away slowly and never really took the time to take much notice of how many things I added.

Just click on the wideget below and it will take you to my tagfoot page. On the right hand side of the page you will see a yellow box with all of my tags. Scroll through until you find a category you are looking for and click on it. Then to the left, everything under that category will come up.

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This has been such a handy tool to have and I generally jump over there first when I am looking for something. I keep a small version of the above widget in my blogroll, under Montessori, if you ever want to come back and check it some time.

I will continue to add ideas and activities to tagfoot as I stumble across on the web.

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Getting Into Montessori

Well very slowy anyway. I've been doing loads of reading on Montessori lately. Even though I have been aware of Montessori and the philosphies, I haven't looked much further than that. I'd like to implement some of the concepts into our home.

Even the simple ones like Tray Based and Floor Mat Activities to help keep an ordered work/play space. We tried many Easter themed Tray Activities this year and they worked very well.

This morning, I had the kids help me empty our Children's Picture Book Shelf. It is far too small now anyway for all of the books we have, they are always piled high on top of it and on various tables around the house as the shelf has just become to small. (I am waiting for some floor to ceiling book shelves ;-) ) So for now the Picture Books are hiding in various spots we could find available around the house.

I wanted a shelf area for Cbub, now that he is well and truly on the move he can at least choose items from the lowest and possibly the second shelf for himself. Plus it won't be long before he is up and walking and by having this routine in place now he'll be so used to it by then that the shelf will (should) be second nature to him.

These are items taken straight from his toy box, but there is more than enough on their to entertain him for a day or so. I will change the items around every other day depending on if we have spent much time at home or not. (with 2 bigger kids, we are out and about a bit with their activities)

It allows for a quick and easy tidy up as well, each time he goes down for a nap. As opposed to having the majority of a very large toy box tipped and strewn out around the house.

As soon as he woke from his morning nap we showed him the shelf and he is content to go there now when looking for something new to do. He particularly loves the basket of wooden cube blocks, they are very fun to pull out have them crash onto the tiles.

Our favourite book at the moment is Froggy Green and K4 particularly likes it as she can read it to Cbub.

Now the next big one is to set up a similar concept for the big kids in a spare linen cupboard I have here. That one will take me a while, but I will come back and show you when I'm done.