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Montessori toys are ideally made of natural materials and are useful to promote learning and independence. They are battery-free toys reflecting real life and focusing on one skill at a time. 

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Color Sorters

Color sorters are toys for children to group items with the same colors. It develops children’s visual knowledge of colors.

Shape Sorters

Shape sorters are toys for children to group items with the same shapes.

Size Sorters

Size sorters give children space to learn different sizes of things. They have to sort bigger ones into smaller ones.

Sorter toys help children develop their cognitive and motor skills. With sorter toys, children learn that objects are different in size, shape, or color. 

Learning Areas

Fine Motor Skills

Digging 

Digging activities provide children with the experience of digging. Children can dig things such as soil and sand.

Digging Activities

Filling

Filling activities involve children in the task of filling containers, buckets, and other items with things such as water or sand.

Filling Activities

Gliding Activities

Gliding activities allow children to guide an object along a path or track.

Grasping

Grasping is a fine motor skill. It involves the movement and use of the hands and upper extremities. Grasping is simply how children pick up and hold onto objects.

Grasping Activities

Hand Eye Coordination

Hand-eye coordination is important in Montessori environments. Activities such as knobbed cylinders and pouring exercises help children refine their ability to manipulate objects with precision.

Hand-Eye Coordination Activities

Locking

Locking activities for children may be in the form of lock and key toys or lock and latch toys. Locking activities keep children engaged while helping them develop fine motor skills. 

Locking Activities

Pouring

Pouring is a practical life activity. It develops the movements needed to pour objects from one vessel to another without spilling. Commonly, it involves water, but it can also be dry items.

Pouring Activities

Scooping

A scooping activity is the concept of using a spoon or scoop to pick things up, tip them, and pour out the contents inside.

Scooping Activities

Screwing

Children learn how to screw a nut onto a bolt correctly through Montessori nut-to-bolt activities. The nuts and bolts are usually made of metal or wood and are big and chunky for kids to easily use. 

Screwing Activities

Shaking

Shaking activities for children involve using their hands to shake things. They can shake toys, rattles, sensory bottles, parachutes, or pom-poms. Children love the fun sounds and movements.

Shaking Activities

Sifting

Sifting activities use tools like sifters or sieves to separate materials such as sand, flour, or rice. Children can sift sand, separate rice from lentils, or sift flour to pretend to bake cakes.

Sifting Activities

Spinning Activities

Spinning activities are when children play with toys that spin, like tops or spinning wheels. They make the toys spin by pushing or turning them. It helps explore sensory stimulation.

Switching

For little ones, switching activities mean they get to play with stuff that turns on, off, or changes. Think flipping lights, pressing toy buttons, or playing with simple switches on toys.

Switching Activities

Threading

Threading requires a child to thread the first bead onto the string. After pulling it all the way to the knotted end, they begin again with the next bead. And so on, until all the beads are on the string. 

Threading Activities

Tonging activities

Tonging is a Montessori practical life activity where a child learns how to hold a tong, pick an object, and transfer it into another bowl.

Tonging Activities

Tracing

Tracing is an important pre-writing activity in the early years. Children can start with big shapes, work through tracing patterns, and finally trace letters and numbers.

Tracing Activities

Transferring

Transferring activities are activities where the child is moving objects from one container to another. Most commonly, children transfer small objects like pom-poms, balls, marbles, or water.

Transferring Activities

Tweezing Activities

Tweezing activities are activities that encourage children to use tweezers to move items from one place to another.

Whisking

Whisking activities involve children in using a whisk to mix ingredients. Whisking activities are typically a part of baking or cooking.

Whisking Activities

Fine motor skills activities are the activities that use small muscles in our hands and wrists. Children use these skills to perform many important tasks such as writing or drawing. 

Fine Motor Skills Activities

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