MONTESSORI AT HOME: Open Ended Play (+ Our Top 10 Favorite Materials!)
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- MONTESSORI AT HOME: Open Ended Play (+ Our Top 10 Favorite Materials!)
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Love that you mentioned open ended play with the Montessori materials. It was always so fascinating for me to observe the difference in students between their day time work cycle and their afternoon open ended play cycle. They had access to the same materials + just a couple of open ended toys like the ones you mentioned...but the things they did with these items were so varied! They knew exactly what to do with them to "work" with the materials during the mornings, but really let their imagination take over in the afternoons! I've heard some say that Montessori doesn't allow for enough imagination and creativity and that right there was proof that nothing could be further from the truth!
0:01-6:39 Intro, Definition of open ended materials and differences between open and close ended materials
6:40 Wooden blocks
7:32 Magnetic tiles
8:04 Duplo / Lego blocks
9:14 Play silks
9:49 Animal figurines
10:56 Vehicles
11:43 Dolls
12:49 Sensory building materials
13:28 Arts and crafts supplies
14:30 Sensory bins
15:20 Balls, clothing, stacking blocks
Thank you
Please pin this post!
Yessssss ! This should have way more likes
Thank you!
Thank you so much! Sometimes her intros are a tad too long but her content is great
I accidentally came across this channel and now I’m obsessed with the idea of Montessori. I can’t wait for my baby to arrive... ☺️
Me too . . .
Same here! 🙈
Ashley i have been watching your videos for quite sometime now my baby is 15months old. I just wanted to write a comment after watching this video, you are really one of the best content creator out here in youtube. Its full of much valuable information and your way of explaining things, your usage of vocabulary and simplicity of presenting the content is absolutely amazing. I hope you reach millions and millions of subscribers because you totally deserve it. Thanks all the algorithms that brought me to your channel. Im from the other side of the world, Istanbul and watching your videos during toilet breaks, sleep times etc, was a blast. Thank you again. Keep up what youre doing! Hugs to all of your family❤️❤️❤️
Omg when Mia nurses her baby 🥺 that was so cute I had to replay it!! My heart melted 😄
They are so perfect 💙 My toddler asked if he could breastfeed his little sister earlier hahaha They really take it all in 😍
I used to wear scarves to work as an accessory. Now that I don't go into an office, my daughter plays with them constantly! They are a variety of size, shape, color and texture.
We do starter sets for those very reasons. As he has gotten older & wants bigger buildings/towers whatever it’s always an easy way to ask for birthday/Christmas gifts. Being able to say “he really loves these & would love an add on set” helps prevent the electronic toys that we don’t want bought.
I used to do the same thing. When I was about five, I saved up $100 to buy myself a Fisher Price Dollhouse. For my Birthday, I wanted accessories and materials for my new dollhouse.
Even now, I try to do the same thing when I give gifts to kids. In addition to giving books, I like to add onto existing collections/toys. Maybe I'll gift the Magnatiles Car expansion set or a set of animal figurines the child doesn't have (especially if they have a collection of different Safari Ltd figurines). Maybe it's something as simple as noticing that they have a "mommy and baby" cow, sheep, and goat, but no baby pig with their farm animals, or seeing that they have a male lion figurine, but no female lionness in their wild animal collection.
It was a good point you raised about the home not being a classroom. Some Good ideas. Though I'd love some ideas for older kids though I know you're not at that stage yet!
Yes! Blocks, vehicles, trains, and balls make up about 80% of our play (2 under 3 here) 🧸
There's so much pressure on parents to buy the latest "educational" flashy toys, when the simplest things have the biggest impact 💚
Thank you for sharing x x x
I’m a nanny/babysitter and I love incorporating Montessori activities with my kiddos
This is really helpful. My daughter is almost 16 months and I am trying to make sure that we give her the tools to engage in all areas of growth. Thanks for sharing this list
Thank you for all your suggestions! I love your channel!
Just refreshed my page, what a nice surprise to see a new post from you! Hope everything's going well with the book and the stairs🥰
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. I love watching your kids playing.
Feeling empowered!! Thank you for another awesome video!
The new camera is looking good!
With using things for their unintended purpose, i would use a stepping stool as a desk when i was little, it was one of those stepping stools that transforms into a chair, id sit on the first step and use the top to draw.
I was happy to see that we have all, but one of these in our home. It was reassuring. Great video.
Thank you Ashley. This is very helpful! Really appreciate it 🙏🏽
I was so glad to see I actually own most of the items you mentioned(whoohoo, saving$) thank you for another great video and explaining the meaning and use of toys.
Love your videos. Thank you so much and by the way the quality of the video is great. ❤️❤️❤️
I love your content! Please keep them coming! Blessings to you & your family. Saving up to be able to do your ecourse 🥰
perfect ideas , love them all!!! thank you😍🤗
Thank you so much for this highly informative video!! My baby is 11 months old I needed this!!
Fantastic video! So so helpful! I definitely need to get more open ended toys! You’ve inspired me ❤️
This was an amazing video. I always see people stressing about not using creative play or encouraging imagination because it is not a Montessori approach. I appreciate you saying that your home is not a classroom. I loved the list and I can’t wait to show it to my partner.
Your resources are SO helpful!!
Glad i found this video ! Thank u for this! My 22 month old loves cars, i will definitely buy those vehicles. ♥️
I love Montessori but I love open ended play so much❤️❤️
Such a great list! Need to get my hands on magnatiles and diplo blocks!
Thank you so much for this video! It was super helpful ♥️
Omg the lighting!
What fantastic ideas, thank you for sharing 😊
Thank you! This video was very helpful!
Thanks! Looking for great birthday gift for my almost 2yo!
So helpful as always! Thank you. Best wishes from Dubai xx
The new lens looks great!!
Great list! I would also add stuffed animals and tents
Yes! Some of my favorites!!
Thanks a lot, so helpful! My problem with the whole idea of putting toys out open on shelves/ wherever and putting others away is that I don't have space for really putting bigger things away...
THANK YOU!!! So helpful 🙏🏻🙏🏻
Very educational.
Thank you ❤️
Love this video!
This is amazing 👏
Another inspiring video, thanks. I have ordered those more realistic animal figures, they're are a bit more expensive but they look great.
Thank you!
❤️ it!! Thank u
My kids do mostly open ended play at home. Also with their activities. Lacing beads are used to bake cookies for example. I think it's also because both go to a Montessori (pre)school (when the schools are open that is😆). They do Montessori work during the day and they just want to play and process their day once they are home. Which I think the home is for! So I've decided to stop buy or DIY Montessori activities. Follow the child! 🤗
Here I go heading over to amazon again, oh no! 😂
If your wanting to buy a lot of these items look elsewhere then Amazon. Montessori\ Waldorf toys are sold at an extreme premium. Example grimm’s rainbow is 209$ on Amazon verses most small companies sell it for 69$-98$. Also Montessori classroom items are very expensive on Amazon, the cheaper options on Amazon can work but many times are missing important details and are very tiny. Making it unsafe around the younger age range they should be introduced. Just a heads up
Can you please share where you find lower prices?
Love this video ! Could you do this for language and math !
Your videos are so inspiring to me! Can you please do a video on how to address whining/sibling fighting? I gave a boy and a girl and we struggle with them playing together and irritating each other so much.
❤️this!
I spy an Amazon order in my future😂 thanks for all of the suggestions
Thank you 🙏 Ashley for taking time to share the recordings of your daughters for us to visualize how they use their materials.
Where are the small rugs from?
Where are the road tracks from? Black and white
Where is the baby doll stroller from?
Question to anybody who can answer this please:
I’m trying to budget a bit here...
Does anyone else recommend leapbuilders blues clues jumbo blocks?
Please do video to introduce alphabet and writing .ur thougjts and idea acckrding to montessori.i know already some r there.pls do updated version if possible
Hey Ashley, I just love watching you! My husband and I are a big fan. We are really interested to know what Kylie and Mia do when they are not playing an activity, or helping with house chores, and just at home? What do they do in their free time? I am looking for some ideas to fill the time gap for my kid. Thanks a lot!
I have a checklist of possible activites with coloums for each day of the week and I check them off the days that we do the activites to keep track of how we are growing our daughter. The Montessori Toddler book has frugal activities for your child's shelves. We do a morning outing 3x a week where we leave the house for a 2-3 hour adventure: to the park, the beach, the market, the children's museum etc. Its important to get out of the house, make sure to pack snacks. After an outing day is a quiet "down day" to regain our calm.
Daily rhythym after breakfast:
Morning walk for 45 minutes for gross motor development. Sometimes we walk to the nearby playground and spend time burning off energy
Free Play 45 min
Shelves have rotated toys and activites that are interesting to her
Music, Singing and Dance and then Snack
Free Play 45 min
Story time and Lunch
Nap
Free play
Outside time (Backyard)
Story time, or learning time. Its flexible
You should also make a close-ended video version!!!!!
_thank you, beautiful!_
Hi Ashley,
Thank you so much for sharing all the tips and experiences you have with Montessori and raising your kids. They are beautiful and well taught. I love your channel and watch them almost everyday and I learn so much from watching them.
Do you mind I ask what is the brand of the African doll you have. I’m in Australia and I click into the link you share but it didn’t show specific one , but sent me to Amazon in general. I love how soft looking the doll is. Appreciate your help :)
Mia nursing her baby is so adorable! 😍
My son puts his toy baby on my chest: the baby on one breast and he on the other... 🤭 I am doing tandem breastfeeding without knowing it! 😂😂😂
My daughter is special needs and we use more open ended play versus actually Montessori based activities.
What blush do you use?! ☺ so beautiful and natural.
That’s a great list! Definitely adding some to my list for the future/birthday ideas. Couple things: do you have another suggestion for wood blocks? I have a plastic set that was a present but really wanna switch to wood, however the one on your list is pretty pricy for us ($90?). And the metal insert link is not working, do you have another link?
Hi Ashley! I just recently discovered your channel and have quickly become consumed with all the great things Montessori has to offer. My husband and I are revamping our play room! Thank you for the work you’ve done to make this easier for other parents to learn when time is so limited.
Quick question! Would you put these open ended toys on the shelf as an activity or is this something that you would place somewhere else in the playroom and rotate as needed?
I usually place them elsewhere, little baskets, tucked in corners, just wherever I find a place. But I don’t see why you couldn’t put them on your child’s shelf, too. ;)
@@HapaFamily thanks, Ashley! So helpful :) I’ll be adding Magnetic Tiles to our littles’ Easter baskets.
I've checked hamleys figurines and they too look realistic. An affordable option for budget families
Please link
Hamleys store has a wide range of collections. I visited physically in Bangalore.
Also they're online, can also buy them on Amazon. But I dunno the quality check of the items
@@cutielittle1 I tried. It is not coming
@@kailashmendiratta6178 I too had a bad experience recently with hamleys store through Amazon as they sent an used product. I had to return it. :(
@@cutielittle1 Amazon is like this only. I ordered a T shirt and they sent us a torn old T shirt
do you ever have conversations with your daughters about what they did that day? like just to review how their day was and such (even if you were there the whole time)
Vielen Dank für das interessante Video! See you
My daughter loves pretending the climbing frame is an ice cream shop. Do you have toy libraries where you live, Ashley? Our toy library has a great selection of open-ended toys ❤️
Hrmm, if we do, I’ve never heard of one! Definitely something for us to look into for the post-Covid future! 😚
My kid is always is making up situations with her stuffed animals where they have to apologize or when she can say "no" to them.
Does the Lego link under your video have all the exact blocks shown in the video? I love the transparent ones asw
Hi Ashley, do you have a link for the scissors in the video? Thank you!!
Hi Ashley, what is the size of the play silks which you use?
Hello Ashley! I am a huge fan of your channel. I wanted to ask you if have any favorite books that you can recommend about at home Montessori? It will be super helpful.
Check on her description box.. I think she did provide the link.. Or if there is none, one of her video did mention it
@@maxsfamily9830 Thank you I found the links
Can already tell I'm gonna struggle with wanting to buy Everything for my baby (toys, clothes, activities) etc. Have to find a way to reign it in for the sake of my wallet and home space! (And them!) 😅
Is there an alternative play silk for those if us on a budget? The ones I looked at were 16 for one piece. I would need about four and that gets pricey. Could I do the same concept with a cheaper material or receiving blankets or the like?
I'm a little confused. So in closed ended activities is it encouraged for parents to model how to do the activity...like stacking the tower blocks in order or putting the coins in the slot? I remember a video I watched in the past saying you shouldn't tell them actually what to do and let them figure it out so you aren't taking away from their success. What am I missing?
Love your videos by the way!💜
I have some magnetic tiles but they are very frustrating, I think I need to replace them with this kind as the one we have a very easy to fall over and my 4 year old gets so mad when she’s spent so long on a project and it falls apart but yours look much more study. Also need to get some silks.
I also bought magnetic tiles that are all wibbly wobbly and don't stand up. Really frustrating - even for the adults who are trying to play with them for noooo other reason than to help the 19 month old learn, even when she's sleeping. ;-)
Never mind!! You answered it in the video! Haha
Bit late to the party but I wonder how often do you recommend doing a toy rotation?
How do you play with the kinetic sand? I got some but it just seems so messy! Lol
What size play scarfs do you recommended, the mini or the regular sized?
Love the video! 🥰 How do you get your child to stop hitting you with the big pieces of the rainbow? It kind of hurts sometimes 😂
Janet Lansbury's "No Bad Kids" covers this, Janet would say "I won't let you hit"... while removing the rainbow from their hands.
What’s your advice if I am going to introduce these open ended toys to my 2 year old? If it’s the first time should I show her one at a time? And do I play with her once to show her or do I just lay them out and give her free reign?
Can you please tell me what is phenomenon of the incornation
Hi Ashley, thanks for this really informative video. The Schleich animals you mentioned have a recommended age of 36 months plus. Do you feel these would be safe for my 14 month old to play with, under supervision, or are there small parts he could choke on? Thank you 😊
All ages play with them here in my childcare setting, there's no little parts on the ones we have.
Same, my two year old plays with them. I would say that there a couple smaller ones like bunnies I would wait until a choking hazard is past, but the bigger ones are safe for younger kids.
Hey! What about stuffed Animals? What do you think about them?
Hello can you please share the link for the black race track.
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I have all of these things for my boys. I feel like I passed the test lol
I have all these things for my children and more but my 2 almost 3 year old still won’t really engage longer than 10 minutes. I hope this will increase soon.
I am keen to know what your thoughts/the Montessori philosophy is on music/singing and musical instruments, ie: to what kinds of music do your kids listen and when, how are they encouraged to engage with it, and do you have musical instruments for your girls to play with? Also, is learning a specific instrument (piano, guitar etc) something that is on your future 'wish list' for your girls?
Thank you for the video! Do the girls ask you to draw for them? Mine always does but I don't want him to think my way is the right way of drawing something... Any tips?
I think part of learning to draw is copying those better than you. To be a better artist you copy the masters. I wouldn’t worry about it!
When I worked in the 3-6 yo class, the kiddos ALWAYS asked us to draw for them in theafternoons. We would often have them join us, or other times they would want the beginning of a drawing to add on to (a bird that they can draw a forest for, for example). Like Megan said, copying is one of the methods of learning to draw. Modeling is an important aspect of Montessori. On a way, you are modeling the different drawing techniques as well for them. If you are worried about them assuming only your way is correct, introduce to them other drawings of the same item. So if you drew a bird, also show them other drawings and paintings of birds, so they can see how many various options there are, and they may draw inspiration from all of them 😄
Thank you, Ashley! This video was so timely for me. I am on the search for some great open ended toys. Can you redo the shape insert link? I’m not sure it is working.
This is also a what’s hapa ing question but I would love to see some wedding photos! It is fun to learn about you and mike!
Bummer, it looks like the specific ones that we own of the metal insets are sold out and Amazon has taken down the listing entirely for some reason. They are sold by the brand Amazing Child Montessori and are very budget-friendly (perhaps why they’re sold out). I did find this other version, although I can’t speak to their quality since I’ve never purchased them: amzn.to/3pOdKhi
@@HapaFamily oh no! Hate when that happens lol thanks for the follow up! I’ll check this out!
Hi Ashley, what if they use the close ended toys as open ended toys? Should we let that happen?
That is completely fine-as Ashley said, the Montessori activities can also be used as open ended toys. In our Montessori class, the kids had access to all the same activities in their afternoon open ended play time, plus a couple of the open ended items like the ones Ashley mentioned. The most mesmerizing part for me was observing children who were intently stacking a pink tower or aligning brown stairs just earlier that morning during their work cycle, suddenly use the same material to build a bridge for their train tracks to pass under! When in doubt, remember the golden rule-Follow the Child 😊
Considering purchasing a Yoto player for my 26 month old and 3 year old and just wondering if anyone else has one and if there are enough recommendations of montessori friendly cards?? Anyone? Recommendations before I purchase please? 🙏
Proverbs 12:25
Anxiety in the heart of man causes depression,
But a good word makes it glad.
Where can I get that barn toy?
Where does these things go? Like do you have this on shelf or somewhere else.
Typically the shelf is for presenting the actual Montessori materials that the child is working with to master a skill at that time, and these items might be stored in a different cabinet, or a different shelf nearby, just to separate the two. But if you're limited on space, putting them on the shelf isn't going to hurt anyone really👍
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Isnt the water beads dangerous? Toddlers being always curious, they might try to put it in their mouth and choke on it?
I found your channel. I have a question, do you homeschool your kids only? I'm thinking about doing homeschooling.
I think kylie was due to start a nursery but the covid situation changed Ashley's mind so they're homeschooling for now. Like the rest if us. In uk our kids can return to school on 8th March.
@@anneslovingtodiy7512 Oh I see. I appreciate your reply. I was concerned to start a specific method and then have it changed or affected by the school. I'm in US and there is a lot of bullied kids in our schools and so much more that I feel is not addressed properly many time (I know the problems are in many other places and not just here). Pandemic has hit hard sadly.