These Montessori inspired beginning sound baskets are inspired by a very typical Montessori phonetics game: matching small objects to their corresponding initial sound sandpaper letter.  In this game a group of 3 or 4 sandpaper letters are placed on a rug and group of miniature objects are sorted according to their initial sound.

This game is targeted to children between 3 and 4.5 years old. My little girl is only two and is only starting to learn letter sounds since a couple of weeks so this game would be just too complicated for her. However, Tutu LOVES matching games and so I decided to approach a simplified version of this phonetic game.

For our baskets I select 5-6 objects that start with our letter of the week and that I have on hand (toys, miniatures I have around the house, fruits). I make printables that match these objects and put them together in a basket. I also included some other common objects in my printables in case that you have around different items than I have
I also made some uppercase and lowercase wool letters and sandpaper letters for these baskets. And included a magnetic lowercase letter and a rubber with the uppercase letter. The idea behind this was just to familiarize her with the letters and their sounds but she even wants to match these ones!

Two weeks ago we started working on the letter Aa sound and she really enjoyed the basket. Right now I am just introducing the letter sounds in english because I plan to introduce the letter sou...