Adrian loves cars, he also loves movement, and he loves matching: so, I thought it was a perfect activity:) We are using Stack & Count Parking Garage and a Montessori Color Tablets Box 3. Adrian is given a car and asked to find the closest color match from Color Box... Read more →

Brown Stairs is a third Montessori sensorial material and is introduced after Pink Tower at around 2 and-a-half years old. (Knobbed Cylinders are generally introduced first, followed by Pink Power, and then by Brown Stair.) Brown Stair however, is for teaching thickness. While the length of the stairs (prisms) remains... Read more →

Once the child has mastered the Pink Tower (read a post here) and Brown Stairs (read a post here) separately, you would start introducing extensions of these activities, by combining the two. (Buy the Pink Tower here and Brown Stairs here.) Adrian at 27 months working on Pink Tower &... Read more →

Practical life activities can be introduced to a toddler as early as 15 months. I started offering to Adrian crumbing the table activity at around 26 months. This small crumb set is perfect for table-top crumbing. The activity can be practical indeed, like asking your toddler to help clean up... Read more →

I started offering Adrian this See & Spell Wooden Double-Sided Spelling Boards since he was two years old. By 26 months, he is able to complete all the double-sided boards. However, the skill involved is more of a matching the wooden letters to their respective cutouts, rather than being fluent... Read more →

I have been asked many times - what are we drinking? Mainly, water - a lot of it! And I wanted to make sure that my family is drinking the healthiest and best-tasting water we can possibly drink, considering our location. After conducting a tremendous amount of research, I had... Read more →