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Create an Attractive Home Environment from Montessori at Home!

March 9, 2017 By Deb Chitwood 21 Comments

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Preparing a Montessori-friendly home environment can seem daunting, but you can do it bit by bit. It doesn’t even have to cost much. And the results are priceless!

Create an Attractive Home Environment from Montessori at Home!

John Bowman’s Montessori at Home eBook (available exclusively as part of the Montessori at Home eBook and Materials Bundle in the Living Montessori Now shop) is filled with amazing ideas for families. John Bowman has some great advice about preparing a Montessori-friendly home.

Here’s an excerpt from John’s book with some of his introductory advice. (Note: Because my blog dimensions are different, the layout won’t be the same as in the Montessori at Home eBook.)

Education of Ours

Photo Education of Ours

Children absorb their immediate environment. Montessori designed her Prepared Environment to be clean, orderly, and attractive. A disorderly, chaotic environment encourages these qualities in your child’s brain. An attractive, orderly environment helps your child’s brain develop more optimally. You don’t have to make your home a showplace or spend a lot of money. Simple tips:

Keep it clean. As soon as your child is able, she can help you keep your home clean. Children can learn to sweep, dust, clean glass, polish silver, help with laundry, and many other home chores. Regular times set aside for cooperative cleaning encourages good habits and responsibility as well as maintaining a clean environment. See page 116.

Reduce clutter. Unattractive spaces can be transformed by eliminating clutter and focusing on a few pieces. Reducing the clutter on every wall, shelf, and surface in your home can dramatically improve the environment’s aesthetic. Garage sales, Ebay, and Goodwill are your friends in fighting your inner pack rat. Consider adding shelves in your garage or basement for those items you just can’t part with.

Photo: Counting Coconuts

Make a child-sized work area. A child sized table and chair will get your child’s personal work area started nicely. Later, you can add low shelves to hold your child’s toys, learning materials, books, and decorative items. Consider a good quality set made of natural wood. Here are DIY table plans.

Use a variety of materials. Glass, wood, woven baskets, wool, pottery, fabrics, nuts, gourds, dry grasses, flowers, stones, and other materials add texture and interest. Your child needs exposure to more than synthetic fabrics and plastic. Let your child touch!

 

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Take it outside. Montessori believed that nature talks to children. You don’t need a landscaper to have an attractive, interesting outdoor environment. Get started with simple steps, then check out the internet, home improvement stores, and magazines for ideas and develop a plan. Kids need lawn areas to move freely. A play set with different movement and climbing opportunities is always welcome.

A simple stone or brick patio with a table, umbrella, and chairs is not hard to create, makes a great family project, and provides a place for eating and outdoor activities. Grow flowers and vegetables in pots if you don’t have room for a garden.

Display works of art. High quality art prints add a wonderful aesthetic quality to your child’s environment. Mix classic and modern works and a variety of styles, including art photographs. AllPosters.com is an example of a source of large art prints of famous works for as little as $2.99. Check out sites like Displays2GO for cheap poster frames. Interesting sculptures and cultural items are also good.

 

Play music. Music, especially classical and other complex kinds of music, promotes brain development. Play music instead of having the TV on all the time. When your child feels like it, encourage him to dance. Dancing is a wonderful large motor activity that promotes coordination and balance.

Excerpt used with permission of John Bowman.

The book continues on with specific ideas for various parts of the house.

John Bowman’s Montessori at Home eBook (available exclusively as part of the Montessori at Home eBook and Materials Bundle in the Living Montessori Now shop) is filled with amazing ideas for families.

The Montessori at Home! eBook and Materials Bundle Available Exclusively on Living Montessori Now!

Montessori at Home! eBook and Materials Bundle Available at Living Montessori Now

Update 2/1/19: Montessori Print Shop, always one of my very favorite Montessori suppliers, partnered with John Bowman in offering 21 gorgeous Montessori materials in a bundle together with the Montessori at Home! eBook! The eBook was originally available individually, too. Because the eBook was published in 2013, some of the links have changed over time. So not every link works. Because of that, the eBook is now only available as part of the Montessori at Home eBook and Materials Bundle. The book is still great, but it is best used as part of the bundle of materials that goes with it. And the price of the entire bundle has been reduced. It was originally $19.95. You can get the eBook plus over $60 worth of materials in this bundle now for only $14.95! 

You can get a free download of 51 sample pages from Montessori at Home eBook by clicking here! (This includes information on John’s simplified Montessori reading sequence.)

Here’s the direct link to the purchase page for the Montessori at Home! Materials Bundle,which includes the Montessori at Home eBook AND over $60 worth of Montessori Print Shop materials to go with the book (now only $14.95)!

Here’s the list of 21 printable Montessori materials included in the bundle:
  1. Phases of the Moon (3-part cards & chart)
  2. Animals of the Continents
  3. Continents 3-Part Cards
  4. Land & Water Form Photo Book
  5. World – Control Maps, Masters and Labels
  6. Moveable Alphabet – Print – (includes full instructions)
  7. Sentence Cards – Step 1 – Set 1
  8. Word and Picture Cards – Step 1 – Read Pictures
  9. 1-100 Math Series
  10. Geometric Matching Cards
  11. Geometric Solids 3-Part Cards – Blue
  12. Skeleton Nomenclature Cards
  13. Tree Nomenclature Cards
  14. Phonics Sound and Picture Sorting
  15. Association of Objects
  16. What Does Not Belong
  17. The Five Senses
  18. Plant or Animal?
  19. Animals and Their Names
  20. Color Grading Cards
  21. Metal Insets – Shape Outlines

Excerpts and Activities from the Montessori at Home eBook

you can read all the excerpts from the book that I’ve shared here at Living Montessori Now:

Activities with Marbles and Golf Tees from Montessori at Home!

Activities with Marbles and Golf Tees from Montessori at Home!

Building a Flashlight and Pipe Building from Montessori at Home

Building a Flashlight and Pipe Building from Montessori at Home!

1000-10,000 Activity from Montessori at Home!

1000-10,000 Activity from Montessori at Home!

Make Fossils from Montessori at Home!

Make Fossils from Montessori at Home! Cutting with a Knife from Montessori at Home Cutting with a Knife from Montessori at Home!

Free Play Tubs (Sensory Bins) from Montessori at Home!

Free Play Tubs (Sensory Bins) from Montessori at Home!

Create an Attractive Home Environment from Montessori at Home!

Create an Attractive Home Environment from Montessori at Home!

Concentration and Normalization from Montessori at Home

 Concentration and Normalization from Montessori at Home

How to Prepare a Montessori Jar for Meaningful Preschool Activities at Home

How to Prepare a Montessori Jar for Meaningful Preschool Activities at Home (an activity prepared using one of the book’s printables)

Allow Time for Repetition and Concentration from Montessori at Home!

Allow Time for Repetition and Concentration from Montessori at Home!

Activities Using Some of the Montessori Print Shop Materials from the Montessori at Home eBook and Materials Bundle

Here are activities I published using just 4 of the 21 Montessori Print Shop materials from the Montessori at Home eBook and Materials Bundle:

Montessori-Inspired Phases of the Moon Playdough Tray

Montessori-Inspired Phases of the Moon Playdough Tray

Easy-to-Prepare Montessori Animals of the Continents Activity

Easy-to-Prepare Montessori Animals of the Continents Activity

Extending Montessori Animals of the Continents Work

Extending Montessori Animals of the Continents Work

Hands-on Fun with Montessori-Inspired Human Skeleton Activities

Hands-on Fun with Montessori-Inspired Human Skeleton Activities

Seashell Color Matching {Easy-to-Prepare Variation of Montessori Color Box 3}

Seashell Color Matching {Easy-to-Prepare Variation of Montessori Color Box 3}

Again, John Bowman’s Montessori at Home eBook is available exclusively as part of the Montessori at Home eBook and Materials Bundle in the Living Montessori Now shop)!

Preparing Montessori Spaces in Your Home

See “How to Create a Montessori-Friendly Home” for ideas for a number of levels. Here are some of my main home environment posts here:

  • How to Prepare a Montessori Baby Room at Home (roundup post)
  • How to Prepare a Montessori Toddler Environment at Home (roundup post)
  • Preparing a Montessori Newborn Baby Space at Home
  • How to Use Montessori Mobiles to Encourage a Newborn Baby’s Development and Delight
  • Preparing a Montessori Baby Space with Shelves at Home
  • Preparing a Montessori Baby Space in Your Living Room
  • Preparing a Montessori Baby-Toddler Space at Home
  • Preparing Montessori Toddler Spaces at Home
  • How to Prepare Montessori Shelves for a 2 Year Old
  • How to Prepare Montessori Shelves for a 2½ Year Old
  • How to Prepare Montessori Shelves for a 3 Year Old
  • How to Prepare Montessori Shelves for a 3½ Year Old
  • How to Prepare Montessori Shelves for a 4 Year Old
  • How to Prepare Montessori Shelves for a 4½ Year Old
  • How to Prepare Montessori Shelves for a 5 Year Old
  • How to Prepare Themed Montessori Shelves
  • How to Prepare a Montessori Home Environment for Afterschooling
  • Create an Attractive Home Environment from Montessori at Home!
  • How to Set Up a Montessori Homeschool Classroom
  • How to Prepare Montessori Homeschool Spaces for Babies through First Graders
  • How to Prepare a Montessori Space in Your Living Room for Toddlers Through Early Elementary

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    March 11, 2017 at 7:26 am

    Thanks for this awesome promotion, Deb! I hope many more parents join the 8000+ all over the world who are using the Montessori At Home! eBook to give their children a great start in life. I love getting emails from parents about the activities their kids are doing. Thanks for offering Montessori At Home! on Living Montessori Now..

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