10 Montessori Inspired Toddler Learning Activities

Using Dollar Tree and Hobby Lobby items I put together 10+ toddler learning activities inspired by Montessori practices. Making learning fun is what it's all about!
What is Montessori? Montessori is a method of education that is based on self-directed activity, hands-on learning and collaborative play. Montessori emphasizes learning through all five senses, not just through listening, watching, or reading. Children in Montessori classes learn at their own, individual pace and according to their own choice of activity. Learning is an exciting process of discovery, leading to concentration, motivation, self-discipline, and a love of learning.
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[@suechambers5123]

I'm a retired Montessori teacher. I like your ideas..teacher- made materials are great. You might enjoy the book "Teaching Montessori in the Home". The book contains patterns for more hands-on materials..making your own sandpaper letters and numbers. Teach lower case first..less confusing for them. Have fun teaching Luke.

[@samanthaleblanc4327]

I will try all of these! My daughter is almost 2 and she is the hardest part of homeschooling my firat grader. I am always on the hunt for activities at the table I can do with her while my other daughter does schoolwork. thank you thank you thank you.

[@annavlasova490]

Love these! I worked in a Montessori school for almost 4 years. I ordered books for my yet to be born baby every time they placed book orders. By the time I had my son we had a huge library for him :) Before 3 is a critical time to work with your kids and give them the foundation for the lifetime of knowledge :) Great job, Mom!

[@NeeloBlue]

The only thing I remember from my first day of school is playing with those lacing cards. I love all these activities, and I don't have any kids! It's not a necessity to go and buy expensive toys. The dollar tree books are so cute!

[@mohamedalthaf968]

superd ideas very nice

[@yvetteyasui]

I love that you showed what items you shopped for, how you put these games together, and then how the child plays with it. Such a great video! Would love to see more of this type of educational learning fun activities, thanks Hillary!

[@TaylorRaine]

I love the Pom Pom sorter! That is such a cool idea and seems super inexpensive to make. My daughter would love that!

[@aridanimartyani131]

thanks very much this idea 10 Montessori inspired tooddler learning activities for my class in kindergarten teach.

[@GentleThriftyMama]

Oh and I picked up some of those wood letters from Michaels the other day because they were on crazy clearance. I didn't have a use for them (shame!) so now I do!!

[@Kindercrafty]

Yay, these videos make my heart happy! Great activities for her to start with!

[@SweetAndSimpleHome]

So fun! Toddler learning is a blast! You could also do impressions in the play dog with the letters and make her name! Counting the animals is always fun too! Evey will have so much fun!

[@helenregueiro8473]

What great ideas. You make learning so much fun for kids.

[@erikaslearningresources3]

These are great ideas for color recognition, matching , and fine motor development.

[@NguyensWorldTV]

Omg I LOVE videos like this! I have a toddler also and she goes to Montessori school!

[@KKReads]

I love your toddler activity ideas! Helps keep my little one engaged and learning.

[@curlykiki8]

my kids just started a montessori 3pk class. we love it! i read a great deal about maria montessori this summer and was so impressed! tfs.

[@thebrainyhub]

Such useful and great ideas to keep them busy, while they are learning a lot

[@stayseesdeserts]

Great tips! I've seen renditions of a lot of these on Pinterest, but it was so refreshing and nice to hear you explain everything: " I got this at hobby lobby, dollar tree etc" a couple things I haven't heard of too! Wonderful!

[@creativelysound]

The animal footprints in the playdough idea is so amazing. I also like the idea of printing the toy animals into the play dough. I can imagine the prints looking very detailed as the animals are an intricately designed. I'd love this activity and I'm in my 20s

[@KarinRamboTruncation]

That egg carton and clip idea is genius! I'm so bad at coming up with ideas like this so I'm really excited to try this with my two-year-old! Thanks for the idea!

[@fabulouslynesting]

Great activities! Those books were total scores and can be used in so many ways. I will have to check my Dollar Tree for the one with the kite...so cute!

[@frostiemu]

Yes! I have been looking for ideas like this. Thanks for sharing... look forward to more of these types of videos!!

[@dalimts7372]

I can’t wait to try them. Thanks for sharing

[@ChinaChao]

Wow, thank you! Ur giving me hope after a new month of my baby turning into a toddler from heck... I mean I know this is for later but it still gives me hope. Ty!

[@ThisFamilyThing]

You might also enjoy my channel. I share lots of toddler montessori inspired activities. 😊💛

[@stepintoanewday]

Hilary, these will be so nice to do with my son while my daughter is at preschool:) I need to bond with my boy again! Thank you! So cool! Take Care--- Brandis

[@ThePurpleAlphabet]

Very fun stuff! Love it all!

[@HamzkolaGaming]

The Purple Alphabet I

[@venkateshramadoss7261]

The Purple Alphabet

[@lisettemalik8253]

Love this! Just had a baby and my 20 month old is going stir crazy at home

[@ThisFamilyThing]

Ah so tough right now. 🙏

[@GirlMeetsBujo]

Such creative ideas! I love how you made the books more useful than just simply reading them. I can’t wait to try some of these out with my boys!

[@bobokhan8919]

Very creative great job

[@ruthyvargas3872]

definitely going to use some of these ideas for my toddlers. Thank you so much sharing.

[@SimplyStacyL]

These are great! My son is just shy of 2, and we've started doing some structures activities as well. I'm excited to try out some of these ideas!

[@ThisFamilyThing]

Such a great age. They become so capable and imaginatuve after 2..You might also enjoy my toddler channel. xxx

[@Real.Coco.Loco.]

This video is brilliant, really clever! Will definatly be sorting out some bits to have these activities at home.Thanks so much and keep up the good work.

[@juliequates9529]

Great ideas! I'm working on some montessori style activities for my son. I think we'll work on color matching next. :)

[@dustyroaddesign]

THANK YOU! Great inspiration

[@lucydiaz2553]

Love all your ideas, thank you for sharing

[@annathewildthings2093]

You rock momma! These are really great ideas!

[@LekaBee]

So excited to try some of these activities with my son.

[@sunitarajiv1]

Hi , liked your activities so much. What an enthusiastic mom you are! GOD BLESS YOU !

[@hbnpiano]

I love this! I teach preschool piano (Wunderkeys) to ages 3-5. Many of the concepts in the program are similar to the ones you talked about (patterns, matching, memorizing, fine motor skills) so I got some great ideas for activities at my lessons! Thank you!

[@RitaAmanyire]

Great ideas! Thank you for sharing Hillary am starting a daycare centre soon and was thinking of incorporating montessori in to it and this video really helped,Looking forward to more videos.

[@zainekrugel6167]

I absolutely adored your video!! What great ideas! Im in another continent and we do not have hobby lobby or dollar stores here. Material wise we are poor but I will try to be inspired by some of your projects with whatever we have at hand. Thank you!!

[@okinoboo4743]

I like the guess the foot print idea! Thanks for your video, great tips!

[@learningthroughplaywithkay3597]

I love the books , you have so many ideas thank you for sharing this x

[@sdmfann7768]

You have some really great Ideas, thank you for sharing!!

[@tanslife3095]

My grandbaby is always learning she's 3 always opened to different ideas 👍👍👍👍🤗🎄🎄🎄⛄

[@familydays7371]

I love these ideas! Now that we've started homeschooling my oldest two, I've been in search of activities to keep my two year old busy, these will definitely be helpful!

[@ThisFamilyThing]

You might enjoy my channel too... my daughter is also 2 and I am a childminder to toddlers so share lots of montessori inspired resource and activity ideas. Hope you enjoy xxx

[@StephanieMcQueen]

Just came across your channel !! Love this ! I have a little toddler that would enjoy these ! New subscriber . ❤️

[@GentleThriftyMama]

Love the what's missing game! Great ideas here Hilary :)

[@UpLiftingHomeCooking]

So cute and clever. Would love to do these with our little grandson.

[@loveliestflowersgifts1196]

Awesome ideas and great way to demonstrate each one. Thank you for this, my baby and I will definitely give them a try! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🤗🦄🌈

[@hannabfree]

Thanks for these ideas!

[@arezoojam2708]

thank you for sharing these great ideas. My 18 months old is so energetic that I sometimes run out of ideas on how to entertain her in educational and productive way. Please do share more. very smart

[@evelyn273]

Terrific ideas! Thank you so much!

[@buildingblocksstaffchannel3749]

Hilary these were great ideas! Thanks for sharing!

[@anchalgupta7142]

loved the video. the best one so far.👍👍

[@brittjustdoes]

love it!!!

[@butterflymagicwithhottea9291]

I quite enjoyed this video. Thank you for posting.

[@ShavonneDiaz]

Great ideas! Thanks for sharing

[@englishlanguagegames]

great ideas! thanks for sharing!! I can even use these activities with my EFL students !

[@nehanikam4072]

Amazing ideas! You are very creative! Thank you for sharing your ideas.

[@helloellie4874]

so many great videos in your channel ! Thanks for sharing !!

[@TracyMcElroy]

This was amazing. I can't wait till hit up the dollar tree

[@ThisFamilyThing]

I wish we had the dollar tree in the UK. 🙄

[@desisto007]

Wonderful ideas! Thanks for sharing!

[@ElizaMogha]

Great activities! Thanks for sharing!

[@lakshmiashwin6100]

Hi !! Thanks for the lovely ideas..!! Foam activity of dufferent shapes and animal play dough activity i liked the most !! will implement them soon

[@8candice]

Great ideas!

[@gimmiks]

Awesome Activities! thanks for sharing!

[@MiznahSA]

Love it.. Thank you 💓

[@liah55]

Genius, loved this!

[@goav3256]

Thank you for sharing!

[@SimcredibleProduction]

Such great ideas thank you for sharing! I've been looking for good ideas on toys and games for my toddler, who is also named Evie.

[@scrapin4mhe]

When I was a para in an early childhood class we would place pom pon balls on the floor, and give each child a clothspin. They would have to pick up the pom pon ball with the clothspin and carry it in the clothspin to a bucket where they would release it into the bucket. It combined gross motor and fine motor skills. The kids loved that game.

[@OldWorldHome]

+scrapin4mhe Great idea!

[@Mookielady]

We did the same in my classroom but with tongs not clothspins.

[@susanclayton3712]

Really enjoyed watching great ideas Thankyou.

[@tweetybirdgirl07]

love your ideas

[@joannec4356]

Great idea with the letter recognition! Too bad my son is a little too old for these activities but you're very creative with your different learning activities!

[@pkeele]

So much fun - our girls are in the same season of learning. The new series of Dollar Tree books look great! Did you also get the little colored pom-poms from Hobby Lobby? I've been looking for that size for the same type of activity. Have you gone the the channel, "The Purple Alphabet." Tons of ideas there.

[@Lisa6812]

+Patricia Keele I was going to mention her too, I LOVE the purple alphabet. As well Jady A,

[@pkeele]

Oh yes, Jady A! I just subscribed to hear a few weeks ago, and we worked together on a collab this morning. She's full of good ideas too.

[@nehachaubey]

Loved all the ideas 😊😊

[@TheLifeofaHomemaker]

Great idea!!

[@Innocenxe08]

Great fine motor skills activities

[@nayomikarunanayakekarunana6728]

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[@robertaedmisten7253]

I love it!

[@joycecook8876]

Such good ideas!

[@amrithamehta1534]

Im so inspired by all these activities!!!!!

[@OldWorldHome]

+Amritha Mehta Enjoy!

[@Tefahh.c]

love these ideas my son is 18months idk if these are to advance for him but I'm still goin to give it a try

[@FatemasArtShow]

Great! Love this! Lots of Love from Fatema's Art Show x

[@boonsmumchannel1135]

Thanks very much! It's very useful for me.

[@linbron2018]

love this

[@sandraengstrand2784]

Great activities!

[@valerienitz3240]

Great and easy ideas for a toddler or preschooler! I will try some of these activities.

[@prajaktasingh1513]

Valerie Nitz 8. U

[@nadiasneed]

awesome ideas, thank you!!!!

[@meplus5tilldadarrives756]

Progression idea for letter matching in book-match the animals too!

[@clarehewitt8666]

Thank you xx

[@Rissafunandlearning]

I love these ideas 👍

[@flowernose420]

Thanks! Excellent video.

[@gladystaylor9895]

Thanks for sharing this, I needed some ideas like these ones ;-)

[@andeesignsable]

With your pompoms you can give her a tweezer or larger grabber that utilize the same hand grip. She can grab the pom poms with the tool so it reinforces pre writing pre cutting fine motor skills

[@stefedayana1167]

We can use cloth drying clips as tweezer right mam??

[@irfanahmed9358]

such a fruitful work

[@ThisFamilyThing]

You explain very well..Enjoying your channel and videos. xxx

[@gailmariage5318]

Excellent ideas.

[@amalelsayed518]

so nice ideas I will try most of it soon with my toddler thanks a lot

[@SimpleMommyLife]

Great video. thank you so much

[@sexywifeValentina]

Great ideas!!!

[@iymok1999]

I wish I could triple like this video. 🤗 I’m curious to know how many minutes/hours per day do you work with your child on educational concepts?