A while back I purchased the Montessori stamp game to keep as a math manipulative for my children as they get older. The game basically has small wooden squares with ones places, tens place, hundreds, and thousands. Although I do not have any formal Montessori training, I have watched several videos on all the different ways you can use this educational tool. My kids are in public school and are learning a different way, but they do love math (they get it from their Math teacher father and not me lol). It has been a great tool to explain adding and eventually subtracting larger numbers. It’s even helping me to fully understand division. Some people learn better with visuals and this stamp game is just that. In true Montessori fashion, I wanted to create some kind of a mat for the game to go on. I searched the internet for the different ways people set it up and presented it to children. I decided to create a mat out of felt (if you’re a follower, this will not surprise you!) with the 3 different colors matching the wooden squares. It is another visual cue for kids to understand where the places are. I also created a long black felt horizontal line and repurposed some math signs from a different toy for them to set up the math problem. I am even including the free print out I made with the same color matching. This can be used as a full sheet of paper or cut into smaller squares and presented with the game. Check out my video below and see how easy it is to make your own stamp game mat.
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Jennafer Pellerin Home is a family lifestyle and design business helping clients to create beautiful, functional, and simple homes. Jenna’s love for design landed her at New England Institute of Technology where she received a BS in Interior Design. Since then she went to work with a local decorator helping to pick fabrics and finishes for her clients and learned the ins and outs of a small design business. She also worked in the fashion jewelry and home décor product development industry where she learned the marketability of products in the design world. After welcoming her first of four children in 2015, Jenna took a step back from her career and spent most of her time raising her children. She started her family lifestyle and design blog, Jennafer Pellerin Home back in 2017. Jenna will share all of the things that work for her family and will continue to pursue her love of design, gardening, and organization in a new and simplified way.
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