I have never seen my daughter more focus than when she is working on Montessori-inspired practical life activities. She does truly enjoy what most adults really dislike: cleaning and organizing. She can spend hours cleaning her working table, helping me cleaning around the house, and working in the kitchen.
I’ve been meaning to set up some practical life activities in our garden for a long time and when we bought this tricycle for Tutu’s second birthday I knew washing it was going to make an amazing practical life activity.

Last weekend we finally had spring-like weather, we reached 20 °C, making it the perfect opportunity to set up this activity. After the nap we prepared two buckets of water and brought them outside together with soap, a kitchen sponge and a kitchen towel.
Then I let tutu pour some soap on the water and mix. She really enjoyed this step and would have just poured all the soap into the water if I would have let her (this girl is seriously addicted to soap and foam!).

We brought the tricycle to our parking spot and without any directions she started to clean. By the way I should apologize that is so messy on our parking spot but my husband and my dad were reconstructing our front yard.

She started working on her tricycle, washing it with the sponge and soapy water, completely concentrated and determine to have it spotless. Then, she rinsed it with the wet kitchen towel. She worked on her hand muscles by squishing the towel and the spo...