60 TODDLER PURPOSEFUL PLAY IDEAS! MONTESSORI ACTIVITIES FOR 16-18 MONTHS OLD \\ Montessori at Home

See all the brilliant activities our toddlers are capable of! Montessori activities for 16-18 month toddlers become creative, challenging, fun, and exciting. Equally so for the Montessori parent/caregiver and Montessori toddler! These Montessori at home activities are easy to set up, help our children develop their language, math, science, art, and musical skills, all at their own pace! Playtime takes on a new form as our toddlers enter the world of pretend play and role playing! We can provide additional Montessori activities to support our toddler's interests in pretend play, as well as practical life activities. You may be surprised to find all the things your toddler is capable of, whether you practice Montessori at home or not! Give these toddler activities a try and let your child surprise you!

We cover a variety of Montessori activities suitable for 16-18 months in this video, but keep in mind that the Montessori activities we discussed for 14-15 month olds will still be applicable at this age! Our children are continuing to perfect those skills, while discovering new ones. Think of these Montessori play ideas as additional activities to add to your toy rotation, without displacing the activity ideas for 14-15 months!

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[MariaandMontessori]

❗A few notes!
🌟You absolutely do not need ALL of these materials - take this as inspiration for what your little one may be interested in!
🌟Your child may be interested in these activities at an earlier or later age, and that is the beauty of Montessori 🥰 Activities from 14-15 and even 12-13 months are still relevant!
🌟I've tried to link everything in the description box but let me know if you're looking for something that's not there!

[alenkab]

I visited so many accredited Montessori School and am not sure that they have so many wonderful materials in their toddler classes. Your ideas are just phenomenal! Stella is lucky! 👍👍👍

[Dragonfly]

Thank you for the great ideas, Maria! Stella is fortunate to have you (and so are we on YouTube)! I appreciate the care and thoughtfulness you put in your videos. Sometimes, we get too caught up on weekend chores. This has reminded me and inspired me to refocus on activities for my daughter. Hugs!

[AmmaraSHAH]

Awwhhh love the slippers Huda's just about learnt to wear her teddy slippers now i bet stella likes taking them off and putting them away.

All these stacking matching activities are really good for the positioning schema too

I love using items around the house for sorting like sea shells and cutlery
Thanks again we got the nuts and bolts after your short clip and Huda is keen on it

Omf Threading beads!!!! The current fave! The textiles genes within her are activated lol
We had some difficulty with the keys so had to delay that activity a bit but watching stella with it i have hope soon she'll try again.

Awwwwhhh the night light or flash light is the cutest thing Huda loves using the sequined scarf taking it right under the light or in the sunlight to manipulate it so this will be great.

Huda appreciated the glue stick activity which i copied from stella lol

Awwhhh I'm so happy i got the baby yoga book as we have been doing it for a while now but when we went to my cousin/best friend's house this was a great group activity Huda kept making evryone do that cat pose and ran away when we did the cow pose. She learnt the names of a bunch of them so it really helped.

All of the practical life activities are great and i think actually seeing Mia do the coat flip helped so i might show her Stella doing some of these activities.

Can't believe how quickly they've just started to do all these things we have been working on and it only takes a few attempts when we show a new activity for them to grasp it. Its so cool to watch Stella handling all these materials and accomplishing so many tasks.
I loved how long this video was assuming it because she's just doing SO MUCH now hahahah.

[NataliaNewZealand]

Wow this is such a comprehensive list, thank you so much!

[mixed_and_nerdy]

The ball tower is STILL one of Zanders favorites! Simple can be fantastic sometimes. That bunny light is so cute as well

[DMM.DreamMoodsMusic]

This video is wonderful. I’m sure you’re always busy with Stella but could I suggest making an Amazon storefront for all of your links. Continue the good work.

[은숙이-pe]

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[tayliaready]

Fantastic video! So helpful, thank you!
I love how genuine you are and wanting truly help❤

[hollyhill]

I totally forgot about the cards in a wallet activity! So simple but loved! There are a lot of activities that my 14 month old would like! Thanks for all the ideas!

[nursetobe]

What a tremendous amount of work you must have put into this video. Im always trying to stay one step ahead of my girl to make sure we have the materials she will need to stay engaged and challenged. Your videos are so helpful and full of great ideas!

Two questions: How many shelf activities do you have out for Stella at a time? And how often do you rotate activities?

[mitsoukamaignan]

I’m so glad I find your page😻it’s very helpful thank you

[Arielpree]

I found you from Reddit just subscribed ! Love all the ideas you gave.

[vvviiiiiicccc]

Love your channel and content. Always my to go when looking ahead to see what activities or toys to buy for my son. Ty!

[vanessasanchezq]

cute thanks i thanks my baby is 15 months old

[AmmaraSHAH]

Ahh i couldn't find the animal sound puzzle its great for realistic pictures too idk if you have any recommendations for an alternative?

[AmmaraSHAH]

Ohhh i forgot to share the funny moment whilst we were playing with magnatiles, Huda brought over her fridge magnets which i was suprised by but then she got soooo excited and said 'Huda Idea idea idea!' And ran over to fridge with the magnetiles i was suprised because i hadn't even thought of it like you did😅 Truly these moments are the most rewarding seeing her 'ideas'😆 completely worth doing all our preparation and slowing down in our activities with them investing in all this time and effort so they can have moments like this Montessori has been a great blessing 🙌🥰

[supreetkaur]

Hello! Really nice video! I would like to know from where did you get the sofa ramp for your kid to roll down the cars.

[jisun]

Late to the video but where did you get the bunny?

[laurifr]

I heard you mentioned Montessori and me. What is that?