For Montessori homeschools, many of the traditional Montessori materials work well as DIY materials. To save money, many Montessori homeschoolers make their own Seguin (teen and ten) boards.
DIY wooden teen and ten boards can look very professional, but there are simple-to-prepare teen and teen boards that could work well, too. You could just choose whichever type fits with your level of comfort with woodworking and the amount of use you expect the teen and ten boards to get.
DIY Teen and Ten Boards
Teen Boards (Photo from Making Montessori Ours)
Making Montessori Ours made wooden teen and ten boards and boxes.
2 Little Seeds made wooden teen and ten boards.
Teen and Ten Boards (Photo from Walk Beside Me)
Walk Beside Me made wooden teen and ten boards.
LaPaz Home Learning made inexpensive teen and ten boards using remodeling project scraps.
DIY Teen Boards (Photo from A Handmade Childhood)
A Handmade Childhood made teen boards using poster board and permanent markers.
Teen and Ten Board Printables (Photo from Livable Learning)
Livable Learning has free teen and ten board printables for super-simple-to-prepare teen and ten boards.
I have a roundup post on DIY Bead Bars for making bead bars that can be used with the teen and ten boards.
Teen and Ten Board Presentations
My Works Montessori has “Montessori Math Lesson – Teen Board.”
Click here to view the embedded video.
Montessori Primary Guide has presentations for teens and tens.
Shu-Chen Jenny Yen’s Montessori Math Album has presentations for teens and tens.
Montessori Album has an overview of Montessori math, teen board presentation and a price comparison of teen boards from various companies, and ten board presentation and a price comparison of ten boards from various companies.
For a list of all my roundup posts with Montessori-material-making tutorials, see my DIY Montessori Materials post.
Montessori Monday Link-Up
If you have some Montessori activity trays/lessons to share, please link up below. It’s fine to link up a post from your archives – and you may link up anytime during the week! Your post may be any Montessori-inspired activity or idea. It doesn’t need to be related to my Montessori Monday post.
Link up your exact post URL so that we can find your activity if we return to the linky at a later date (which I often do when I’m looking for activities for a roundup post). I publish the Montessori Monday post and linky at 6:00 a.m. EST each Monday and keep the linky open throughout the week.
Please place the Montessori Monday button (using the code from the right sidebar) in your post or put a link back to this post. Let’s use Montessori Monday to gain inspiration/ideas and to encourage each other! If you would leave an encouraging comment on the post linked up ahead of you (along with any other posts you’re drawn to), that would be awesome! Thanks for participating!
Notes:
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