Practical life water activities

Here are some fun and educational activities anyone can do at home with young children - whether or not you subscribe to the Montessori educational

Here is a great practical life activity! I gave Miss A pieces of sponge soaked in water and a lemon squeezer. She worked on her finger and…

..Young children enjoy activities that involve water. Fortunately, there are so many fun Montessori water activities to choose from...

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Montessori Practical Life activity - using an eye dropper to transfer water drops. The damp sponge is there, ready to clean up spills. @wmswms (Westside Montessori School, Vancouver, BC)

Today I want to share some really easy water activities that my three-year-old has been loving. I'd suggest these are suitable for older toddlers to preschoolers. All of these activities use materials that I've found around our home but can also be inexpensively found in craft type stores. All of these activities help to develop coordination, concentration and fine motor skills. Transferring corks with Tweezer Tongs - the child uses the tweezer tongs to move the floating corks from the large…

Paint a rock

This new set of activities were put on the shelves early this week. Between playing and helping me with housework (she is getting so good at folding laundry!), my youngest daughter can be found choosing these activities from the shelves to work on. This is a dropper, colored water and wax paper activity. The dropper allows for making many small water bubbles on the wax paper but when dropped close together they merge into one large bubble. Very fun. The bubbles can also be slid around the…