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You are here: Home / Activities / Practical Life / Sewing Ideas for the Montessori Classroom

Sewing Ideas for the Montessori Classroom

May 14, 2017 By Seemi

Sewing is a fantastic practical life activity for the Montessori classroom.

A Sewing Curriculum for the Montessori Classroom

Aimee-Fagan-with-her-brand-new-sewing-curriculum-book-at-the-AMS-Montessori-Conference-in-PhilapdelphiaIf you’re looking for a comprehensive sewing curriculum for the 3-6 classroom, be sure to check out Aimee Fagan’s book, “Sewing in the Montessori Classroom: A Practical Life Curriculum” available on Amazon (where the Kindle unlimited edition is free!) Aimee also has a guest post on the Trillium blog with ideas for some easy sewing projects for children, along with a tutorial for how to thread a needle.

If you don’t have the time or inclination to put together a sewing sequence yourself, Montessori Services has some ready-to-use sets that are very handy!

Montessori Services shelf ready sewing activities



The photos below were shared by members of the Trillium Community Facebook group.  I’m sure you will find them as inspiring as I did!  With my deepest appreciation to the contributors:

Afsheen Agha
Beth Bitts
Cathie Perolman
Joelle Moropito Huot
Kristin Anderson
Marla Beggs Nargundkar

Sewing ideas for the Montessori classroom

Beginning Sewing Activities

Sewing paddle

Learning with a sewing paddle

 

Button sewing on a paddle

 

cross stitch practiceCross stitch practice

 

Running stitch on round plastic canvas

Sewing with beads on paper

Sewing with beads on paper

thread and beading project

Button sewingButton sewing

 

Advanced button sewing

 

Sewing Projects

Sewing a paper pouchMaking a paper pouch

 

 

Making a fabric pouch!

 

Making a bracelet

 

Trace and stitch metal inset shapesTrace and stitch metal inset shapes

 

Stitching around shapes and embroidery

 

 

A Sewing Sequence for the Montessori Classroom

Montessori sewing ideas sewing shelf

Cathie Perolman keeps her sewing materials at the bottom of one of her practical life shelves.

Montessori sewing ideas shelf

Top:

  1. Tray for lacing cards
  2. Supplies: yarns with “fake” knots (3/4″ straws and “fake” needles (masking tape wound around the tip of the yarn.)
  3. Supplies: construction paper cards

Bottom:

  1. Necklace sewing
  2. Yarn

Necklace sewing

Necklace sewing: yarn, needle threader, needle, 1″ squares of construction paper (great way to use up scraps), straw pieces, little pillow to poke needle through construction paper.

Card sewing

Card Sewing 1:

  • Meat Tray cards (4″ by 2 1/2″ with 8 holes punched),
  • Yarn rolled on a tongue depressor
  • Needle threader, needle and scissors

 

Two color sewing activity for Montessori classroom

Two color Sewing:

  • Cards with shapes traced and hash marked to show where to poke for the holes
  • Yarn on tongue depressors
  • Needle threader, needle, scissors,
  • Push pun pad, push pin.
  • Child push pins at the intersections and sews a running stitch. Then he sews with another color to make an alternating color pattern!


Burlap Sewing:

  • 8″ square of burlap.
  • 6″ embroidery hoop,
  • Scissors, yarn on a tongue depressor, needle threader, needle
  • Thin black marker

The child traces a figure like a continent puzzle piece, a metal inset shape, or a shape from the geometric cabinet (or the teacher draws an object of his choice). The child stitches then around it.

Children often make multiple squares and they are turned into a quilt or display

Montessori sewing ideas quilt dinosaursLong long ago!

Montessori sewing ideas display vertebrates

 

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