Montessori

Brother and sister playing with building blocks.

Montessori and Construction Play: Building Skills for Life

All kids absolutely love construction play. There’s a reason we all played with building blocks as children and made structures as tall as our little hands could reach. Construction...

Brother and sister holding gardening tools and getting ready to plant flowers.

Montessori Gardening Ideas for Spring: Hands-On Learning in Nature

Spring is the time when everything wakes up and when nature is blooming. So, if you’re a parent, you know it’s time when kids are eager to go outside and play in the sunshine. And w...

A boy playing with colorful wooden Montessori blocks.

Montessori and Play Schemas: A Parent's Guide to Purposeful Play

Children are fascinating, and they do a lot of things we adults might not understand at first. And one of these things is exploring the world around them in any way they know, in a ...

Montessori teacher with children in a classroom.

Maria Montessori’s Planes of Development: Stages, Skills, and Parenting Tips

Maria Montessori figured out something big - kids don’t just grow; they actually evolve. Each stage of childhood comes with its own set of skills, quirks, and, let’s be real, parent...

Little girl sweeping the floor with a plastic cleaning set.

Fun Lessons for Cleaning Up - Montessori Way: Building Responsibility Through Play

Cleaning up… just saying it can make any parent groan. But what if it didn’t have to be a dreaded chore? What if tidying up could actually be fun and teach your little one important...

Child playing with colorful Montessori sorting puzzles.

Spatial Awareness with Toddlers - What It Is and How to Improve It

Ever watched a toddler waddle through a room like a tiny explorer, dodging furniture, grabbing their favorite teddy with laser precision, or stacking blocks like a pint-sized archit...