DIY Montessori Dressing Frames: Crafting Practical Life materials at Home!
Creating your own Montessori dressing frames can be a rewarding project that not only saves money but also provides custom learning tools for your children.
Using scrap materials like beautiful pine wood from container casings, you can construct durable and attractive frames.
Here’s how you can get started on this DIY project to create essential Montessori materials right at home.
Steps to do it yourself
- A carpenter can made this frames for me from scrap wood(from wood casing of containers, beautiful pine wood, indeed)
- I think you may get the shop that do framing pictures/paintings to sell you the frames. Or, if you can buy the dowels of appropriate size and make the frames yourself. My cousin just cut the wood at 45 degree at both end, and use a big stapler to stapled them together at the corner.
- I cut the materials and sent to a seamtress to surge the edge, a sewing supplies shop in Melaka town did the snaps, the holes for shoe lacing and ribbon lacing.
- I borrowed this stapler from a friend who is a seamtress to staple the finished cloth on the wood frames. If I need to wash the materials when they get dirty, I can just take them off and re-staple.
With these simple steps, you can create a variety of dressing frames that will aid in the development of practical life skills for your children.
This is a DIY Montessori dressing frame video. Although the result is not a suitable Montessori material, it can provide a close solution to the original material. Nonetheless, it is recommended to try to obtain or DIY a material that is as standardized as possible.
This DIY approach not only makes learning tools accessible but also allows you to tailor the educational experience to your child’s specific needs.
Remember that Montessori materials should look good, feel good to the touch, and appear as a unique 'toy,' all of this to capture attention and reinforce the point of interest for the activity. So, you should strive for the best.
Recommendations for Creating Your Dressing Frames
- Source your wood: Look for scrap wood or visit a local framing shop to get pre-made frames that can be adapted for your needs.
- Assemble the frames: You can cut the wood at 45-degree angles at both ends and use a heavy-duty stapler to join them at the corners. Borrowing tools like a stapler from friends or neighbors can keep costs down.
- Choose the right materials: Gather small and big buttons, zippers for clothes and jackets, and shoelaces to add to your frames.
- Prep the materials: Cut and prepare your materials, and have them professionally finished at a sewing shop to prevent fraying.
- Attach materials to the frames: Use a borrowed stapler to secure the cloth elements to your wooden frames securely.
- Consider maintenance: Design your frames in such a way that materials can be easily removed and reattached for washing when necessary.
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