The Continent of Africa - Trillium Montessori

We’re learning about the continent of Africa this month!

Here we have our materials for the study of Africa displayed on our Geography shelf.

I’m lucky to have a sister who travels a lot and brings back treasures for the classroom!

So many fun things to touch and examine here! These items are displayed around the classroom.

These smaller items are placed in our Continent Box.

I photographed each object and made a lift-the-flap card to go with each. With the flap closed, you can read the name of the object and use it as a label. Lift up the flap and you see the picture, which you can use for picture matching. I’ve also added some more information under the flap for the advanced readers in the class. A little map is printed inside with the country of origin highlighted.

This little girl was so inspired by these materials that she grabbed a piece of paper and made a “shopping list” for her mom!

Clothing

African textiles matching cards

Here’s a fun pin-punching activity with African textile printed paper

This is a great matching activity using paper dolls. The paper dolls are available on Amazon.

I made the mats by collecting photos of people wearing distinctive regional clothing from google images, and tracing around the clothing from the paper dolls set. There is also an outline of the countries where these clothes are typically worn. The children can match them up with the Africa puzzle map pieces.
(Sorry, I do not have copyright clearance from the photographers to offer these mats as a printable.)

Animals from Africa {Free Printable Download}

We have some lovely African animal models and we made some 3-part cards to go with them. All of our free printables are available in the Resource Library.