Montessori Practical Life Lessons Archives ⋆ Sugar, Spice and Glitter

Winter Practical Life Activities

Jennifer Tammy — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 15:41:57 +0000

Five Winter Practical Life Activities that require little to no preparation from parents or teachers, including a full lesson on How to Present a Hot Chocolate Practical Life Tray. Montessori Winter Practical Life There are many purposes to Montessori Practical Life lessons – preparing children for later (orderly) work and lessons, to develop finger strength...

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Montessori Pracitcal Life Checklist – Printable

Jennifer Tammy — Tue, 14 Jun 2016 20:48:12 +0000

It’s been a little while since we’ve shared a Montessori Practical Life lesson here, but they are a daily occurrence at our house. Today, I want to share with you a Montessori Practical Life Checklist to help you plan and choose practical life activities to suit your child. Now, I’m going to start by saying that you...

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Teach Children to Floss Teeth with Play Dough!

Jennifer Tammy — Tue, 12 Jan 2016 12:00:34 +0000

I almost didn’t share this activity – it’s really too simple! But after sharing our scrubbing dinosaurs to learn how to brush our teeth activity, I know that a lot of families struggle with tooth flossing, so I thought I’d share a fun way to teach kids how to floss teeth! Ella is pretty good...

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Montessori Practical Life Lesson: The Lacing Dressing Frame

Beth Holley — Fri, 11 Sep 2015 11:00:20 +0000

Today’s Montessori practical life lesson features our last dressing frame: the lacing frame. You can find all the dressing frame presentations here on Sugar, Spice and Glitter by browsing our practical life lessons. Throughout our practical life posts, we have tried to provide a little insight into Montessori theory, as well as how one might...

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Montessori Practical Life Lesson: Buckles and Straps Dressing Frame

Beth Holley — Thu, 03 Sep 2015 09:53:45 +0000

We are almost done our Montessori Practical Life Lessons on the Montessori dressing frames. Today, Beth Holley shares with us how to present the buckles and straps dressing frame and some tips on effectively presenting any practical life skill. Recently, a friend of mine, who happens to be a scout master, asked me if I could...

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Montessori Practical Life Lesson: Cutting Carrots

Beth Holley — Thu, 27 Aug 2015 11:00:44 +0000

After the basic Montessori Practical Life Lessons have been completed, encouraging children to be careful and orderly in their work, you can start introducing fun & exciting practical life lessons like this carrot cutting activity. Trusting children with real tools is a huge hurdle for many parents, so following your child’s pace and providing child-sized...

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Montessori Practical Life Lesson: Bow-Tying Dressing Frame

Beth Holley — Thu, 13 Aug 2015 11:00:10 +0000

Every Thursday we bring you a Montessori Practical Life Lesson from Beth Holley. We’ve been doing a series of Montessori dressing frames lesson posts which help your child learn how to dress themselves. After the buttoning frame, zipper frame, snap frame, and hook and eye frame, comes the bow-tying dressing frame (which we introduced during...

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Montessori Practical Life Lesson: The Hooks and Eyes Dressing Frame

Beth Holley — Thu, 06 Aug 2015 11:00:26 +0000

Have you been following along with Beth Holley’s fabulous collection of Montessori Practical Life Lessons, shared here on Thursdays? Check out any posts you may have missed here, or consider subscribing to our weekly (or daily) newsletters to not miss future posts! So far in our Montessori dressing frames series, we’ve introduced buttoning, zipping, snapping,...

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Kids Kitchen: Apple Cutting Practical Life Lesson

Jennifer Tammy — Mon, 27 Jul 2015 11:00:02 +0000

We’re interrupting our usual schedule of kids’ activities, parenting inspiration, and family-friendly food to bring you 31 days of Kids Kitchen Recipes and Activities. Today, Deb from Living Montessori Now is sharing a cutting a banana practical life activity for toddlers, so I recruited our wonderful Beth Holley from A Montessori Lexicon to share a...

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Kids Kitchen: Making Rice

Jennifer Tammy — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 11:00:09 +0000

We’re interrupting our usual schedule of kids’ activities, parenting inspiration, and family-friendly food to bring you 31 days of Kids Kitchen Recipes and Activities. Today, Cerys from Rainy Day Mum is sharing her post for kid-made BBQ skewers. One of my essential kids’ kitchen tools is a rice cooker. It is one of the safest appliances for...

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