Montessori Printables and Where Do I Get Them

When I started changing our home environment to adapt to Kimi’s need for exploration and learning, I began looking for activities that I can offer him. I first discovered Teachers Pay Teachers, which is an online marketplace for printable educational resources. I like Teachers Pay Teachers as the website is teeming with worksheets, activities and printable for various age and levels covering a wide range of topic from Arts and Music, Science, Math, Language and more which is so perfect for teachers, parents or homeschoolers. If you are planning to teach a particular unit to your students or just wanting to supplement your child’s learning of a particular topic, then I found that this definitely addresses that need.

In our case, this is where I got Kimi’s maps printable from (US States, Canadian provinces and country flags) and a plethora of CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words. I will just have to pick whatever bundle I want, pay for it and download the files immediately for printing. Because of the number of choices available per topic though I usually spend most of my time looking through each of them until I find one that would get me the most bang for my buck.

I am a working mom and my spare time does not come in unlimited amounts. Instead of planning, researching for and preparing activities for my child, I want that spare time to be used instead on interacting with Kimi, playing with him and teaching him concepts. I realised I was spending more time with coming up with activities rather than with him. With that, I continued my search for an online resource that would provide me a theme/unit or scope to focus on on a regular basis and would also provide me all the printables related to that theme. I know it was a tall order but I was persistent.

I found the Hands-on Kids Activities (HOKA) Club a month ago by Welcome to Mommyhood. I think I stumbled upon it by subscribing to Katherine of I Believe In Montessori’s newsletter whom I eventually discovered from Simone of The Montessori Notebook when she mentioned this file filled with amazing, vintage biology art prints compiled by Katherine.

The HOKA Club is an online membership community wherein educators/parents are given access to themed resources per month. Each month, HOKA will provide new seasonal printables, new themed printables for thematic shelves and units, a detailed inclusive book list, a visual and hands-on artist study, special challenges and community events and monthly guide for shelf mapping. The materials are usually given every 5th of the month which are to be presented on the following month. That is very impressive. Not only was my tall order addressed but it was also reasonably priced. If you are interested to join, you can go here and join their waitlist. I think they only take in new members twice every year.

I was able to join the club last August and so far was able to try out presenting the theme this September. The theme was about community helpers and it was an instant hit for Kimi. I can say that it tremendously lessened the planning and preparation that I have to do for Kimi’s activities which is what I was after. Not only do I have more free time now to spend with my son but I am able to go back as well to blogging without compromising my son’s learning.

I am excited to show you in the next post how I presented the activities for the September theme and how do they look like in action.