Montessori Handwork

It’s walnut season here in New Zealand so my students have been visiting our walnut tree every morning to collect its fallen bounty and...

My class have pompoms on the brain at the moment, I don't really know where the craze has come from, but I have a group of children who...

In a post last December I wrote about our plans to produce all of our own food for this years school camp from scratch. Properly from...

Often in schools we are given odd balls of yarn with no labels, and we therefore don't know what size it is or what fibre it is made...

As promised in the Felt Balls Lesson post, here is the story I tell when introducing felt to children for the first time. I like to give...

The New Zealand school year is just about to begin and as I was wondering what activities I should offer the children to keep them going...

It probably feels hard for those of you battling heavy snow and mega storms to believe, but down here in New Zealand we are still on...

Once my students have grasped the basics of knitting, I encourage them to think about ways they can use their new skill to help others. ...

Ladies and gentlemen, I have, what is for me, and hopefully for some of you, some very exciting news: I have my first two Montessori...

Handwork fulfills any number of roles as a part of Cosmic Education. In the Elementary, one of these roles is to pick up where Practical...

Wet felting is a little bit like magic. You take some loose fluff, rub it with some warm soapy water and almost instantly, you have a...

Our school PTA has recently given me a very generous sum to update the Handwork supplies in each classroom. Aside from being tremendous...

This week Hindus all around the world will be celebrating the festival of Diwali. Our class thought it would be fun to use the...

Dr Montessori believed that if a child had a general understanding of the elements of the natural world, they could feel at home anywhere...

In my last post I shared the lesson I use to introduce the concept of weaving and get children thinking about types of weaving looms. In...

Once you have told The Story of the History of Wool, children will be keen to experiment with this beautiful fibre for themselves. I...

As those of you in the Northern hemisphere begin your new school year your minds will all be turning to the Great Stories which set the...

In all my excitement with the snowballing progress of my Handwork Album, I have overlooked something very important. It was pointed out...

Reflections of Montessori teacher from New Zealand who traveled half way across the world to get a step closer to peace.

Finger knitting is one of those things that you really only need to teach once – ever! Once a few children in your class know how to do...