| Childhood memories of building blocks and matching | | | | forty years ago, Montessori toys teach children how |
| shapes with colors and size in wooden sets of | | | | to organize, be creative and have fun while learning |
| Montessori toys are set in the minds of those that | | | | increased fine motor skills and speech patterns |
| engaged in play with parents. Montessori toys, like | | | | through their play. With a digital world of video |
| counting with an abacus and learning the basics of | | | | games and internet access at their fingertips, children |
| spelling from arranging lettered blocks, taught children | | | | are falling behind in their early development without |
| some of the early development skills in a preschool | | | | the aid of toys to teach them how spatial |
| environment. Placing letters into their appropriate | | | | relationships work, or working with a series of blocks |
| cutouts while sounding out the letter taught young | | | | to discover balance and form. |
| children skills in recognizing the alphabet and | | | | Even with the advanced learning of a digital age, toys |
| precognitive reading. | | | | are the best foundation for educational learning and |
| Even simple unsophisticated toys that do not require | | | | early childhood development practices. Forming |
| batteries and allow the imagination to magically | | | | patterns with brightly colored wooden shapes or |
| transport children to kingdoms where building blocks | | | | pushing the beads of an abacus to learn how to |
| become castles, and where knights battled dragons | | | | count and measure are skills that every child can |
| to save princesses. These toys have aided in the | | | | benefit from. Building open, creative, free thinking |
| early development of children's minds as they | | | | mind is the basis of imaginative learning that comes |
| prepare for schooling. | | | | from playing with Montessori toys. |
| Just as effective today as they were thirty and | | | | |