Montessori is not big on “worksheets” but I have found in all my years teaching that a child may like the choice.
So I prepare age appropriate and more advanced work and place it on a shelf, usually in the same vacinity as the Insets for design, colour pencils, scissors etc. So a child may choose these activities if they so wish.
To help parents to keep their children engaged and busy in adult environments such as travelling with children or at a restaurant etc. Armed with a a small backpack with crayons, colour pencils, scissors and a glue stick these activities may come in handy.
Here are some resources for you to explore, the choices are endless!
As far as these work sheets go children love:
- Dot to dots here
- Tracings some great ideas here, also you could draw your own and paper clip a piece of tracing paper on top, the child traces over the design and then lifts of their tracing paper, ta da!
- Hidden pictures here
- Cutting practice here
- Colouring in here
- Colouring by numbers here
- Cutting and gluing here
- Mazes, some really fun ones here
And how wonderful this is if you match it with a weekly or monthly theme you may be discussing. For example Spring, Summer, animals, transport etc.
Empower the child.
