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Montessori Activities: Animals / Continents


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Prep time: 10 minutes

Difficulty: Hard

Estimated Cost: Various

Mess level: None


What you need


Fabric Map ,Animals,Endangered Land,Animals (Includes panda and gorilla),Monkey and Apes,Dolphins and,Whales,Exotic Birds

Instructions:


Use a map and place it on the floor/low table and you can either use modeling behaviors first or depending on their age they can work out on their own where all the various elements go.


Benefits:


I love how Montessori encourages using hands-on materials for learning. Geography material can be abstract for a child, but it doesn't have to be! For this concrete activity here children are learning all about animals and continents.


How to adapt:


Depending on the age of your child you can adapt this to add the following for them to place on the map

  • Trees/Rain forest

  • Sand/Desert

  • Ice/Arctic and Antarctica

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