By Deb Chitwood from Living Montessori Now
You’ll find many activities for preschoolers through first graders throughout the year in my
previous posts at PreK + K Sharing. You’ll also find ideas for using free printables to create activity trays here: How to Use Printables to Create Montessori-Inspired Activities.Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links (at no cost to you).
Montessori Shelves with Gingerbread-Themed Activities
You’ll find Montessori-inspired gingerbread numbers, letters, and and more (part of my subscriber freebie pack, so just sign up for my email to get the link and password … or check the bottom of your latest newsletter if you’re already a subscriber)
Free Montessori-Inspired Gingerbread Pack
Montessori-Inspired Gingerbread Pack for DIY Cards and Counters, Number or Letter Matching, Number or Letter Basket, Bead Bar Work, Hands-on Math Operations, Number or Letter Salt/Sand Writing Tray, Letter Tracing, DIY Movable Alphabet, and Creative Writing (subscriber freebie, so just sign up for my email to get the link and password – or check your inbox if you’re already a subscriber).
More Gingerbread Resources
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- You’ll find lots of free gingerbread printables and activities in my Free Gingerbread Printables and Montessori-Inspired Gingerbread Activities.
- I have gingerbread-themed activities in my Montessori-Inspired Christmas Language Activities and Free Christmas Printables.
- A Montessori-inspired gingerbread activity that’s simple to prepare but doesn’t use a printable: Montessori-Inspired Christmas Gingerbread Man Fine-Motor Activity or Craft.
- You’ll find lots and lots of Christmas activities of all kinds in my post with hundreds of December holiday activities for kids.
If you’d like ideas for calendar-based themes throughout November and December, see my November Themed Activities for Kids and December Themed Activities for Kids.
Deb Chitwood is a certified Montessori teacher with a master’s degree in Early Childhood Studies from Sheffield Hallam University in Sheffield, England. Deb taught in Montessori schools in Iowa and Arizona before becoming owner/director/teacher of her own Montessori school in South Dakota. Later, she homeschooled her two children through high school. Deb is now a Montessori writer who lives in San Diego with her husband of 46 years (and lives in the city where her kids, kids-in-law, and grandkids live). She blogs at Living Montessori Now.