Montessori Food Prep Ideas
For 2 years above
Materials: Eggs
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Jean Marie at Voila Montessori has awesome demonstration videos on how to present peeling eggs and slicing eggs. (The egg shells can be used for another work for the child; crushing with mortar and pestle.)
**strawberry can also be used with egg slicer.
Materials: Bananas
Again, Voila Montessori has awesome video instruction on how to prep banana work for your young children. Watch it here. and here’s a video on how to do banana cutting with your children by Voila Montessori.
Also read how how we montessori’s progression with banana activities from toddler and growing up!
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Please check out Montessori on a Budget’s post as well to do these activities with children at home. I shared in ig story once how I rarely do food prep activities in tray instead just do it like how we normally do it in the kitchen. She sums up nicely how I did it.
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Another blog post by Rhythms on Play on banana activities and how she emphasize the cleaning up is as important for the whole process.
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