Montessori Practical Life Activities at Home

I thought I would share a bit about how we do practical life activities in our home. 

I love practical life trays and activities, but given we are at home practical life is always interwoven into the flow of our daily life.

Ava's favourite right now is their water bucket.

I created this basket/kit filled with goodies that is generally used at the kitchen sink during the day. It can easily be stored away under the sink when not in use. 

This kit contains the following: ice cube tray, ladle, mixing spoon, dropper, tweezers, garlic press (inspiration for this found here & here), small containers and plastic cups, sponges cut up, small plastic pitcher and funnel.  Lots of things get added into the mix here and there.

  We also have a similar set up for bath time.

This basket and everything in it, are from the dollar store. The colour is so pretty! 

You can of course take out all of these items commonly found in the kitchen for this purpose, however I found it much easier to put the kit together. I really did not wish to go searching for things I needed but rather have this ready and available. 

 Also things like the garlic press are very light plastic, and easier to use than my heavy steel counterpart.

This is actually a Saxoflute that makes for great water play.

 Pouring glasses of water, and transferring back to the pitcher.

 Water transfer with a dropper - filling each cube in the tray.

Pressing sponges with the garlic press.

Ladling sponges

Tweezing sponges

We have worked with many transfer activities and here is an amazing tray that we put together.

This is mainly Ava's sorting and transfer tray. This tray includes lots of clear objects that work really well on our DIY light table/box.

 Everything you see here is from the dollar store.  I do change things out with the seasons.Here I included some valentine themed items. 

She has been doing transfer activities for quite some time now. With this setup she chooses what she would like to transfer, and with experimentation the implement that she feels works best.

Laundry and Folding

 Both of them love laundry. They often help sort, and fold their own laundry.

 We chat about colours, sizes, names of articles of clothing, and the name of the person in the family it belongs to. 

"This is Xander's shirt!"

This is an older picture of Mr. Xander hanging clothes on their tiny line.  

They both love hanging their clothes, and we have a small retractable line at their height for them to use.

Baking

They both love to help bake. Miss Ava loves to experiment in the kitchen while we are baking. The kitchen is very magical for children. They love to mix, pour, and spoon ingredients. 

They bake often with us but in addition here, I had set her up with a tray so she can do this to her hearts content. 

Buttering toast is a big favourite!

Xander LOVES to clean glass and dust.
I have created a similar cleaning bucket for the kids that you can check out here.

Practical life is perhaps the easiest and most in expensive part of the Montessori (in class curriculum) to create at home!

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