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Montessori Practical Life for the Holidays

October 30, 2015 by Marie 6 Comments

We are so excited to join several wonderful Montessori bloggers in the 15 Day of Montessori for the Holidays blog hop! Please enjoy these fun ideas on how to use practical life for the holidays.

A wonderful collection of practical life for the holidays activities on ChristianMontessoriNetwork.com! One of several amazing post in the 15 Days of Montessori for the Holidays blog hop posts.

At the bottom of this post please find the link to tomorrows featured blog post. You can find links to all the posts in the series on Montessori Bloggers Network 15 Days of Montessori for the Holidays page here!

Wonderful 15 Days of Montessori for the Holidays blog hop! Over 15 posts with the common Montessori for the holidays theme!

Practical Life for the Holidays

The Christmas season is the perfect time to work on practical life skill with children. Practical life works bring a real sense of purpose to children as well as strengthening their fine motor skills.

Here are several of our favorite Christmas themed activities to help your child with their practical life skills!

One of our favorite posts for practical life work this Christmas season! Apart of the 15 Days of Montessori for the Holidays blog hop.

Threads in a great way to refine hand eye coordination. Rachael of Racheous used Christmas themed pipe cleaners and a small colander to set up this quick activity for her kids.

Christmas Recipes

Cooking is a VERY fun practical life skill kids love! Last year we put together some amazing Kid Friendly Christmas recipes to share. We hope you will find inspiration there!

One of our favorite posts for practical life work this Christmas season! Apart of the 15 Days of Montessori for the Holidays blog hop.

Strengthen little hands with this fun Christmas activity from Montessori Work. The fragrance this work fill the room with is a great sensorial work too!

One of our favorite posts for practical life work this Christmas season! Apart of the 15 Days of Montessori for the Holidays blog hop.

How much would it be to practice swaddling baby Jesus?!? Check out this great post over at Every Star Is Different for other great Christmas themed work.

One of our favorite posts for practical life work this Christmas season! Apart of the 15 Days of Montessori for the Holidays blog hop.

Super fun practical life idea to help kids with buttoning! There are other fun Christmas themed works on Counting Coconuts too.

One of our favorite posts for practical life work this Christmas season! Apart of the 15 Days of Montessori for the Holidays blog hop.

Another great way to celebrate Christmas by caring for baby Jesus on Growing Hands on Kids!

One of our favorite posts for practical life work this Christmas season! Apart of the 15 Days of Montessori for the Holidays blog hop.

Decorating the Christmas tree can be a lot of fun for kids. Here’s a great idea on a practical life tree decorating tray. The original post in not in English, so we linked to Living Montessori Now where she describes the activity for us!

Flower arranging is a fun practical life activity to help kids stay involved in preparing the home for Christmas on ChristianMontessoriNetwork.com

Flower arranging is a wonderful practical life skill to practice this Christmas season. Check out all the Practical Life Activities to Prepare for Christmas!

One of our favorite posts for practical life work this Christmas season! Apart of the 15 Days of Montessori for the Holidays blog hop.

You’ll want to pick up a couple utensils to be ready for all your practical life work this holiday season. Check out Mama’s Happy Hive’s post for a very helpful list!

One of our favorite posts for practical life work this Christmas season! Apart of the 15 Days of Montessori for the Holidays blog hop.

Gingerbread decorating is a great hands on fine motor work to help your child with their hand strength. Enjoy this before your child helps you decorate your gingerbread cookies!

Speaking of gingerbread cookies! Be inspired to let your kids in the kitchen with you this year for a fun practical life cooking skill lesson and make your own gingerbread cookies.

One of our favorite posts for practical life work this Christmas season! Apart of the 15 Days of Montessori for the Holidays blog hop.

Stringing popcorn is a fun way to add practical life work to the season. Add in the book If You Take a Mouse to the Movies and you have a great winter afternoon activity ready to go!

One of our favorite posts for practical life work this Christmas season! Apart of the 15 Days of Montessori for the Holidays blog hop.

Making gifts is a wonderful lesson in grace and courtesy! Find this fun ornament recipe on Study At Home Mama.

ChristmasConcert(3)

Here is our post from last year with several free printables for a great discussion on grace and courtesy this Christmas season.

One of our favorite posts for practical life work this Christmas season! Apart of the 15 Days of Montessori for the Holidays blog hop.

An inviting transfer work activity from Every Star Is Different.  Use bells and tongs for satisfying music along with this practical life activity.

15 Days of Montessori for the Holidays Blog Hop

We are excited to join many wonderful Montessori bloggers in the 15 Days of Montessori for the Holidays blog hop.  This blog hop runs from October 25th through November 10th. Please be sure to check out all the participating blogs listed below and follow the host, Montessori Bloggers Network, on Pinterest for all the updated posts!

Check out the next post tomorrow on Montessori Unfiltered! 

This is a wonderful set of blog post for Montessori for the Holidays!

Photo Credit to Montessori Messy

The Montessori Notebook ~ Montessori By Mom

When Hippos Talk ~ Little Fingers at Work ~ At Kid Level

Magical Movement Company ~ Christian Montessori Network

Montessori Unfiltered ~ Mama’s Happy Hive ~ Montessori Nature

Welcome to Mommyhood ~ Our Montessori Home

I Believe in Montessori ~ Living Montessori Now

The Kavanaugh Report ~ The Natural Homeschool

Age of Montessori

Filed Under: Holidays, Preschool (3-6 years), Toddler (1-3 years) Tagged With: Christmas, Montessori for the Holidays, practical life

About Marie

Marie is a work-at-home mother of two. After much self-study and with a background in education, she chose to follow her own children in their education and created the blog Child Led Life. She is also the owner of Montessori Bloggers Network. Marie is a baptized Catholic turned Methodist, but currently attends a church affiliated with the southern baptist convention. She enjoys contemporary services focusing on the community of believers and loves meeting God in the great outdoors.

Comments

  1. Vanessa says

    October 31, 2015 at 3:20 am

    This is a wonderful collection of ideas for Christmas practical life works! Thanks for putting this great list together, Marie! 🙂

    Reply
  2. Anastasia says

    November 1, 2015 at 5:37 am

    So much fun!

    Reply
  3. Katherine says

    November 2, 2015 at 6:56 am

    You collected the best ideas for us! All this is very inspiring! Thanx!

    Reply
  4. EmilyJ says

    November 3, 2015 at 2:31 am

    These are fantastically festive practical life activities! Thank you for putting them together, Marie!

    Reply
  5. Renae says

    November 8, 2015 at 2:11 am

    Such a FABULOUS collection of activities! I love it! Thank you for including mine as well!

    Reply
  6. Kim says

    November 12, 2015 at 4:16 pm

    There’s so much here… I love it all. You could easily fill your entire practical life shelf for the entire months of November and December. Wonderful post, thank you!

    Reply

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