Sensorial

Sensorial materials help children develop and refine their senses, giving them the tools to classify their environment. These activities isolate specific sensory qualities and help build the foundation for more abstract learning.

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Visual Sense Tactile Sense Auditory Sense Gustatory & Olfactory Stereognostic Sense

Visual Sense

Activities that help children discriminate differences in dimension, form, and color.

Pink Tower

Pink Tower

Age: 3 - 4 years

Children build a tower using ten pink cubes of decreasing size, developing visual discrimination of dimension.

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Child working with brown stair prisms in Montessori classroom

Brown Stair

Age: 3 - 4 years

Children arrange ten brown prisms of varying thickness, developing visual discrimination of width and height.

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Red Rods

Red Rods

Age: 3 - 4 years

Children arrange ten red rods in order of length, developing visual discrimination of length.

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Color Tablets

Color Tablets

Age: 3 - 5 years

Children match, grade, and name colors using specially designed tablets, developing color discrimination.

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Geometric Cabinet

Geometric Cabinet

Age: 3 - 5 years

Children explore various geometric shapes through insets and frames, developing visual discrimination of form.

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Geometric Cabinet

Constructive Triangles

Age: 4 - 6 years

Children compose different shapes using triangular pieces, developing understanding of geometric relationships.

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Tactile Sense

Activities that develop the child's sense of touch and tactile discrimination.

Touch Tablets

Touch Tablets

Age: 3 - 5 years

Children discriminate between different textures using their fingertips, developing tactile sensitivity.

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Fabric Boxes

Fabric Boxes

Age: 3 - 5 years

Children match pairs of fabric samples using only their sense of touch, developing tactile discrimination.

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Baric Tablets

Baric Tablets

Age: 4 - 5 years

Children discriminate between tablets of different weights, developing sensitivity to weight differences.

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Auditory Sense

Activities that refine the child's ability to discriminate sounds.

Sound Cylinders

Sound Cylinders

Age: 3 - 5 years

Children match pairs of cylinders with identical sounds, developing auditory discrimination.

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Bells

Bells

Age: 4 - 6 years

Children match, grade, and name musical tones using specially designed bells, developing musical sensitivity.

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Gustatory & Olfactory Senses

Activities that refine the child's sense of taste and smell.

Smelling Bottles

Smelling Bottles

Age: 3 - 6 years

Children match pairs of scents, developing olfactory discrimination and sensitivity.

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Tasting Bottles

Tasting Bottles

Age: 3 - 6 years

Children identify and match different tastes (sweet, salty, sour, bitter), developing gustatory discrimination.

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Stereognostic Sense

Activities that develop the child's ability to identify objects through touch alone.

Mystery Bag

Mystery Bag

Age: 3 - 6 years

Children identify objects by feeling them inside a bag without looking, developing stereognostic sensitivity.

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Geometric Solids

Geometric Solids

Age: 3 - 6 years

Children explore three-dimensional shapes through sight and touch, developing stereognostic sensitivity.

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