Montessori Monday~ Advent Week 3~ DIY Ornaments

Its Monday again and that means its time for my Montessori Monday post! I have a few new trays that the girls are really excited about and they are of course Christmas themed! I love being able to help bring the Christmas joy into our school routine! So here are the new trays for the week:

Flipping Cookies

(This idea is from The Work Plan)

Tracing around cookie cutters

(This idea is from Montessori Moments. I didn't put it on a tray since they can take it to the table where the pencils and paper are all ready to go!)

Christmas Ornament Tray

(This idea is one I found on Pintrest here. I modified it a bit so the girls could do it all on their own!)

Materials:

5x5" pieces of paper

pipe cleaners (cut in half)

beads

star stickers

(I found some self adhesive wooden stars at Hobby Lobby)

Circle inset

Scissors

Directions:

Have the child trace and cut 2 or three circles

Then the child makes small cuts around the edges to add dimension

Next cut a slit to the middle of the circle

Fold the edges around to make a cone.

Staple it together

Do this for all the circles then cut a small hole in the top of the cone

Take the pipe cleaner and fold a knot in the end

Push it put the under first cone

Add a bead, then the next cone. (another bead and cone if you have 3)

The fold the rest of the pipe cleaner into a loop and add the sticker star!

Super easy and fun!

The girls were so excited to try out the new works and they also had fun working all the older works too! (I did shut them in the school room with me so that they could work better, Pup and Bug keep running around the house). I love watching them work and learn! Here are some of the works I was able to catch!

Pup wanted this work right away!

Bunny wanted to trace the cookie cutters. She worked on this for a long time and loved it!

Bug joined her and did one of each, and was she proud of her work! She is still working on holding a pencil and writing, so this was right up her alley! She loved it!



Bunny cut all of hers out!

After they finished the tracing they all wanted to know how to make the tree. So I gave the presentation and they got to work right away!

They all loved their trees and I think that we have a new tray that will be alot! I loved that Bunny was able to do all of it alone, and Bug just needed help with the stapler!

Tadpole was really working hard on this for a while.

While I helped Pup, Bunny was helping Bug with her letter sounds! :)

She did a great job with sounds. I gave her the sound "o" today. We'll see if she remembers it later! :)

While I was working with the other kids, Pup did all of this on her own! :)

Here is Bunny working on the reading work I made the other day! I added some new sentences for her to try! It was really hard for her and I wasn't able to give her a ton of help since Tadpole needed me too. She was able to read one whole one alone, but she really was frustrated and upset that I couldn't help her. I hope that doesn't make her hate the work.

The chalk board with water was a HUGE hit again!!!! They all loved it! Pup and Bug both practiced shapes and a few letters! It is such great writing practice!

Bug and Pup wrapped gifts and they did an amazing job!

 I was amazed at how well they did! All I did was rip the tape off for them! Christmas here they come!

Bunny built the trinomial cube outside the box today! She was so proud when she finished!

Pup was proud of her gift wrapping too!

After a while Bunny did more trees! We have a plan for all these ornaments that we have made. We will have a new ornament tray tomorrow!

And Tadpole really made a leap in development! He knocked down the pink tower, and then.....he built what he knocked down back up!!!!!! Yeah!!!!! I am so happy that he is getting it!

So that was our day today! Join me tomorrow for another ornament craft and some taking time fun! If you want to see more Montessori work, please be sure to visit Deb at Living Montessori Now and Nicole at One Hook Wonder for their Montessori Monday Link up! I liked up there! Happy Schooling everyone!