The Infant Coin Box is a Montessori material found in the 0-3 years environment. It is generally given to children around 13 months of age. I did a DIY for the Coin Box and introduced it to My Munchkin in Month 12 to see if it interested her and it did.

For the DIY, I used an empty pickle c...

Introducing sounds to your Munchkin.

In our day-to-day life, children hear various types of sounds – birds, dogs, music, sound in the kitchen and more. Each sound is of different decibels.

Natural sounds are the best for your Munchkin. I normally take My Munchkin for a walk and she watch...

In my post on Month 12, I discussed about Object Permanence. You can read about it there.

For a long time, if something moves out of a babies’ sight they forget about it. For them, that thing stops existing. Around 10 to 12 months, they begin to develop an understanding that something exists eve...

Blocks are very good for development in children. The first blocks we introduce should be soft and made of cloth. Later on we introduce wooden blocks to them, large ones followed by smaller ones.

Making the soft blocks at home is quite simple. Well, it wasn’t simple for me but was for my mo...

Introducing colours to your Munchkin.

When children are born, they do not see in colour, which is why it is recommended to show them images in black and white. Slowly they develop their senses and start seeing in colour. They observe it around them in various forms, but, we should try and give t...