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Home » Montessori » Curriculum » Practical Life » [Montessori at Home] Fine Motor Skills Nuts & Bolts Basket

[Montessori at Home] Fine Motor Skills Nuts & Bolts Basket

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In order to continue integrating Montessori at Home, I created a Fine Motor Skills Nuts and Bolts Basket. Like many of you, we carry a vision with every activity we plan. This vision doesn’t always play out. This diversion, of course, is a wonderful part of the activity, perhaps highlighting the whole point of the activity!

Montessori at Home: Fine Motor Skills Nuts & Bolts Basket

nuts and bolts tray

In our case we traveled to the hardware store and sought out a variety of nuts, bolts, a padlock, a carabiner, and other miscellaneous hardware. My favorite part of the excursion was when the check out person said to me, Wow, I am impressed at all your hardware! I thought for a moment about saying, Oh, it is nothing, just a little project I am doing at home but I opted to tell her the truth. The coolest part? I think she was MORE floored and impressed with the idea that these pieces of hardware were for my children to play with and explore.

Nuts and Bolts Fine Motor Work

He went crazy screwing and unscrewing, which was the main intent with fine motor skill development. Then, however, his 2.5 year old imagination turned on like wild fire.

He built a faucet, a “water fountain” and finally a water tower explaining the whole time how it all worked…

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Extraordinary to observe him explore, create, and work with the materials. Next to spiders, children are the original tinkerers!

Thank you for visiting. I hope I inspired you just a bit today. Come back soon.

Marnie

Tagged With: Infant & Toddler, Preschool

About Marnie Craycroft

Marnie hails from Maine where she spent summers buried in sand and winters buried in snow. She is the daughter of a nearly four decade veteran of the public school systems. Teaching has always been a part of her life. She founded Carrots Are Orange in 2010.

Carrots Are Orange is a Montessori learning and living website for parents and teachers.

Marnie graduated from Wesleyan University in 1999 with a BA in Economics. She spent nearly a decade working in investment management. In 2006, she earned her MA in business from the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business.

Marnie moved to the west coast in 1999 and currently lives in Boulder with her husband and three sons. She is Montessori trained. Her work has been featured on Apartment Therapy, Buzzfeed, PBS Kids, BabyCenter, the Melissa & Doug blog, Huffington Post, and WhattoExpect.com. Besides writing, passions include running (usually after her three sons), photography, and outdoor adventures.

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