Color Wheel Mixing (M): Print on sturdy cardstock and laminate (best suited for thick lamination). Make available with 3 droplet bottles: one with yellow water, one with blue water and one with red water. You can use food coloring mixed with water but for the most vibrant colors, use liquid watercolors. Place one droplet of each color on the colored dots, mix inside each circle using a toothpick. Using a sheet of a white paper towel, lay it over the wheel. I like to use a 1 minute sand timer to offer a little time for the paper towel to soak up the dye.

Color Wheel Cut and Paste (L): Print the 2 pages and have available with scissors and glue.

Color Scavenger Hunt (M): Print/laminate and cut small pictures. Hide them around your environment by sticking them to the walls or furniture using blue tac. Provide student sheets in a folder. Child can use a clipboard to clip one student sheet and grab a pencil. Child hunts around environment.

Color Riddles (L): Print onto cardstock, laminate, and cut out these cards. Read the riddle to the child and have them match the answer. Consider having them trace the word on the color card with a dry erase marker to extend the lesson.

Color Box 3 (M): This is a printable version of Color Box 3. Even though I have the actual Color Box 3 in my classroom, I still offer this as a separate work to go along with the Color Tablet Matching Cards. Print and laminate, I like to round the edges to make them even more realistic.

Color Tablet Matching (M): Print and laminate. I have these mounted on sticky back cork in my classroom, but they work fine as just a card. I offer these in the same basket as the printable Color Box 3 tablets. Lay out each picture on a work mat. Take the stack of printable Color Box 3 "tablets" spreading them out like you would a deck of cards along the bottom of the mat. The child then searches for the colors that are in each picture card.

Silhouette Matching (M): Print and laminate - attached the two black and white sheets together either before or after lamination (depending on the size of your laminator). You may want to mount it on cardboard or cork so that it has sturdiness. Cut out "objects" along their edges, perhaps mounting on sticky backed cork or foam paper to give them a bit more weight. Children can match objects to their silhouettes.

Environment Labels (L): Use these cards to label the environment. I suggest reading the word to the child and have them tape the word to an object they feel it describes. These are words used within the sensorial curriculum and it brings an awareness off the shelves and to the larger environment.

Geometric Sorting Cards (M): Print, laminate and cut out. Store them mixed up in a basket. These go along with the Geometric Solids. Lay out the solids on the top of a work mat. Have the student sort the pictures by laying them underneath each object. 30 pictures in total, 3 for each shape.

Geometric Solids Scavenger Hunt (L): Print/laminate and cut small pictures. Hide them around your environment by sticking them to the walls or furniture using sticky tack or tape. Provide student sheets in a folder. Child can use a clipboard to clip a student sheet and grab a pencil. Child hunts around environment and marks off as they find them.

Geometric Solids Riddles (L): Print onto cardstock, laminate, and cut out these cards. Read the riddle to the child and have them match to the answer.

Small, Medium, Large Sorting Cards and Labels (L): Print/laminate and cut. These cards not only challenge the child to sort by size but also by category (ie. buildings, reptiles, boats, etc.).

Constructive Triangles (M): Print and laminate. If you wish, mount these on cardboard or cork. Sort them by each box (triangle box, rectangle box, small hexagon box and large hexagon box).

Constructive Triangle Box Booklets (M): Includes the Triangle Box, Rectangle Box, Small Hexagon Box and the Large Hexagon Box. Use this alongside the printable triangles or with your wooden boxes in your learning environment. This can be a tool for the teacher - read each page to your student and allow them to follow the directions. They also serve as a visual for the child when laid out in sequential order as cards. I make them into booklets using a 1/2" book ring and store them on top of the corresponding Constructive Triangle Boxes.

5 Senses Scavenger Hunt (L): Print/laminate and cut the small pictures. Attach the eye, ear, nose, mouth, and hand to objects around your environment that use that sense. For instance, the ear on a drum or the eye on a kaleidoscope or the nose on a vase of flowers. Provide student sheets in a folder. Child can use a clipboard to clip a student sheet and grab a pencil. Child hunts around environment and marks off as they find them. I have included 2 documentation sheets, 1 that has only one space for each sense and another that has 4 spaces. For younger children start with the single.

Hole in the Bucket Song and Prompts (L): Print onto cardstock, laminate, and cut. I suggest mounting the pieces onto popsicle sticks. If you don’t know the song, you can learn it from Leah on her IGTV (@bluebirdmontessori) or You Tube (Bluebird Montessori). Based on the book by John M. Feierabend

Bluebird’s Friendship Rolls and Honey Butter Recipes (L): Here are two Bluebird favorites!

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