![]() BIL demonstrated stamping with the original brick-red clay powder (zhu sha) which was much more pigmented but we just used a regular stamp pad. (See another unusual use of Color Box 3 in our Montessori birthday celebration.)īut where did the calligraphic seals in the ten-compartment box go? They were used for a stamping activity. I chose reds, pinks and oranges as these are considered auspicious colours in the Chinese culture. The color tablets from Color Box 3 were the perfect size for the ten-compartment box, so I extended the work by having the children grade the tablets by shades of color. My child helped by counting to ten for the younger sibling. We used the box as a ten-frame, for one-to-one correspondence, where she had to match one color tablet to one compartment. “Forced him to give it to me” is more like it □) Believe it or not, it has been very hard to find a box with ten compartments so I was thrilled when I found this vintage fabric box that my BIL had been using to store Chinese calligraphic seals. dimensions of Pink Tower) and Maths works are based on 10. The number 10 is important in Montessori, it is the basis of the decimal system and therefore much of the Sensorial (e.g. The children helped me hang the lanterns on a string I tied to the windowgrill, so it would resemble the rows of lanterns hung on lampposts in Chinatown. It takes lightness of touch to open the lanterns without crushing them (see how the pink one got a little crushed in the follow shots)! ![]() Festivals are an important marker of time and a window into a culture, plus Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival happens to be one of our favourite celebrations! These Montessori-inspired activities are authentic to how we celebrate Mid-Autumn in Singapore and use authentic Chinese materials, but I have designed them so that you can replicate them easily with a visit to your local Chinatown or dollar store.Ī variation on the Montessori bead stringing/ lacing activities.
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