Handling Holiday Excitement with Young Children

It’s that time of year — the big holiday season for many of us in America — and excitement runs high for young children. Keep in mind, I’m writing this during the COVID-19 pandemic, so the holidays should look a little different for us this year. I say “should” because the CDC and all of […]

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Montessori-Friendly Small Shop Gift Guide for Infants through Adults

I had it on my blog list to write a gift guide this month, then I hesitated because I feel like gift guides are a bit overdone at this point. You can Google “gift guide” for literally anything and get a whole list of results, so why bother writing my own? But apparently some of […]

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Parts of Mail 3-Part Cards + Cut & Paste — Free Printable!

This one was another printable inspired by my work with a local Montessori preschool — I was looking for resources for a unit about community helpers, and couldn’t find much about postal workers. So I made these Parts of Mail 3-Part Cards and Cut & Paste activity and decided to offer them to you all […]

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Printable “Sandpaper” Letters with Tracing Marks

I spent a few weeks working with a local Montessori school this summer to help them come up with a plan and resources in case a group of students would have to quarantine for a couple of weeks in the middle of the school year. They did not want to send real Montessori materials home […]

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