Tag: Montessori | Apartment Therapy

Roundup: Montessori in the Home

The Montessori method has ideas many of us probably agree with: that children learn best through hands-on activities; that children's learning objects should be made of natural materials that stimulat...

Etsy Find: Handmade Child-Size Brooms

One of the cornerstones of the Montessori method is teaching young children to take care of themselves and their environment. To do this, Dr. Maria Montessori emphasized the importance of providing ag...

Learning Space Tour: Wildflowers and Marbles

Children's nicknames and ages: Sweet Pea (12), Sparkly (8), Peanut (4), and Doodlebug (1) Location: Huntsville, Alabama Enter Slideshow We don't homeschool, but we draw endless inspiration from many...

Look! Birthday Time Line

For our son's fifth special day, we made a time line for his classroom birthday celebration. As part of a Montessori birthday celebration, teachers usually ask parents to construct a simple time lin...

Finnian's Montessori Room

click thumbnails for larger pics When Meg sent us a link to photos of the room she has prepared for her (arriving very soon!) son Finnian, we were a bit awestruck. It is beautiful and creative by a...

Montessori Materials

When we wrote about Kid-O's Exploring Fractions toy last week, Ohdeedoh reader monika1 pointed out that it's very similar to Montessori materials. This inspired us to dig around the vast (and we do me...

Time Timer

If you've ever futilely tried to explain to a three-year-old that "just one more minute" elapsed ten minutes ago, and no, really, you have to leave for preschool now, the Time Timer might sound pretty...

How To: Outlined Placemats

We all have our daily family rituals. In our home, before we have a meal our son places napkins, flatware and cups on the table. It appeals to his sense of order and is something he learned early on...

Good Question: Bookshelves

Reader Cara wrote and e-mail and asks, "I'm looking for the trifecta of bookshelves for our daughter Lila's room: stylish, sturdy and affordable. I want something that is low to the ground since we'...

Good Question: A Non-Sippy Cup

Reader Sara e-mailed us and asked, "Our baby Henry is obsessed with everything we do....Now he is 100% obsessed with drinking out of glasses. We are already starting to cup train him. We know he won'...

March Best Posts: Vincent's Montessori Room, Piccolini Nursery Tour and a Mod Nursery

In March we had plenty of inspiring, colorful, creative nurseries to share with you. Check out our links below the jump. ...

Montessori Details Children's Aprons

For children, part of the fun of doing work at school and around the house is being able to wear cute little aprons. We found these aprons at Montessori Details to be up to the task -- they are wel...

Montessori Blocks

Fun kids toy, or sculpture? Or.....both? Designed by Maria Montessori and manufactured by Nienhuis, Montessori Excercise cubes help kids develop an ability to order, sort and mimic a two-dimensional p...

Nursery Tour: Vincent's Montessori inspired room

Name: Vincent, aged 2 1/2 Location: Berwyn, IL A tremendous amount of forethought went into this amazing room, and it shows. When we saw a photo of Vincent's cool bedroom linked from the comments s...