The Montessori Materials Sourcing
- Digital Resources: websites to download printables and/or purchases materials.
- Lists of Montessori Materials, from AMS, MEPI, etc.
- Prices of Montessori Materials
- Catalogues of Montessori Materials
- Manufacturers / Suppliers of Montessori Materials
Digital Resources - Websites to Download Printables
A Montessori-inspired resource for parents and teachers with children in primary school, All-Day Primary was created in April 2020 as a Montessori-inspired resource for educators and caregivers as they supported young children during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Montessori for Everyone
Founded in 2005, our materials are now used in schools and homeschools around the world. Lots of great free downloads. Based in the Chicagoland area, USA.
Includes workplans for grades 1, 2, 3, and 4; conference forms, nametags, and other helpful info.
Includes nomenclature cards, word study cards, a consonant blends game, all sorts of pre-reading activities, and grammar and punctuation work too!
Includes a printable book about plants, lots of work for geography, zoology, weather, and more.
Includes worksheets for tracing numbers, geometry word cards, and addition & multiplication practice wheels.
The Helpful Garden
At Foresight Montessori we believe that Montessori is for everyone. Foresight Montessori wants to help you on your journey of lifelong learning so that you can support the future of our world, children. They offer a large collection of extremely helpful free resources.
‘A wiki dedicated to sharing Montessori lessons, ideas, and materials,’ WITH a very useful selection of free Printable Materials in all areas of the Montessori curriculum. Particularly strong on Mathematics, Flags and Art.
Offer free Educational Resources – free at the moment, anyway:
“AMI Digital is in the process of being converted to an accessible and affordable membership service with thousands of high-quality downloadable resources”.
Reminder: “The objectives of the association are to uphold, propagate and further the pedagogical principles and practice formulated by Dr. Maria Montessori for the full development of the human being.”
Offers hundreds of beautiful and affordable handmade Montessori materials designed to engage young learners in a variety of subjects based on the Montessori philosophy.
Based in Washington State, USA.
Dr. Betty Choi, a pediatrician and mom helping families raise bilingual kids against the odds, has many free printables, with an emphasis on Korean and Chinese language materials. Based in California.
Every item you will find in our store is carefully selected according to these important principles: natural materials, beautifully made, ethically made, in small quantities, made locally in Canada and every item follows the Montessori or Waldorf principles and philosophy to help children become more independent, self-confident, and imaginative. Offer a variety of free downloadable nomenclature cards from all areas of the curriculum.
MRD develops, produces, and sells Montessori curriculum materials. Their Recommended Reading is focused solely on reading, but links to five interesting PDF’s. Based in California.
Have some interesting ‘Ideas and Insights’ articles. Recently “Joined the Nienhuis Montessori Family.”
A Singapore-based company specializing in a diverse range of high-quality and affordable educational materials designed for children.
Providing high-quality Montessori Materials for Primary, Toddler, and Elementary Montessori classrooms and parents since 1993. Based in Ontario, Canada.
Inventories of Montessori Materials
AMS considers the use of Montessori materials essential for quality implementation. To support this, the AMS School Accreditation Commission and AMS Teacher Education Action Commission provide lists of recommended materials for each Montessori classroom level. The intent of this checklist is to provide Montessori teacher education programs with a list of traditional developmentally appropriate activities that Montessori teachers […] are generally expected to be able to present in their classrooms. This list is comprehensive but not exclusive or prescriptive and teacher education program instructors may also present other activities.
Have this to say on which materials are required:
‘In order to ensure a prepared environment that is consistent with AMI standards, each Montessori classroom must be equipped with a complete set of Montessori materials. These materials should be purchased from an AMI authorized manufacturer. A “complete” set of Montessori materials is all materials needed by AMI trained teachers to present the lessons in their albums in the way that their training intended. Materials beyond the scope of the AMI teacher’s training may be considered extraneous with a requirement for them to be removed.’
‘Introduction to the Montessori Materials Lists – The three materials lists that follow are offered for reference purposes. The first list is for the Toddler level of Montessori (16 months – 3 years). The second list is a special list for a level that may be used by some schools called Emerging. The third list is for the Early Childhood level of Montessori. The fourth list is for the Lower Elementary (6-9) level of Montessori and the final list is for the Upper Elementary (9-12) level of Montessori.’ Organized and edited by Michael Dorer, a 132-page list.
MEPI have an assortment of practical forms for program directors, which their teacher trainees use during their practice observations/teaching, including an Early Childhood Materials Inventory PDF
“This inventory checklist outlines the basic essentials for an authentic Montessori classroom. The following items and/or procedures are necessary for an appropriate learning opportunity for the student. This is by no means inclusive of all that should be in a fully equipped and prepared environment. Individual classroom Directors and Interns must observe daily, and using their observation data, create new lessons that meet the needs of the children and increase interest in the environment.”
Have created a remarkable 225-page Materials List, containing an inventory of every piece of primary furniture, book, material, etc. that they have in each class.
Prices of Montessori Materials
Practical Life is the cheapest area to stock because a great majority of the materials – mops and brushes and buckets, cups and bowls and spoons, polishes and sponges and towels – are available in any decent grocery or hardware store and reasonably priced. Unfortunately, any savings on the smaller items will be offset by the expense of the Dress Frames: it costs €300 for the stand, and with the frames averaging about €40, a set of 12 comes to €800. Plus postage.
Because there is a clearly defined curriculum with a prescribed list of materials, the other areas are simpler to set up -even if the Language area requires a whole lot of printing, laminating and cutting- but the materials don’t come cheap. A few examples, taken from the Nienhuis Catalogue:
Packs of Materials
Many manufacturers offer collections of materials …
Two ‘Early Childhood Solutions’ – Essential for $12,995Comprehensive for $15,883
Offer a ‘Nienhuis Montessori Starter Pack’ for €3,434.
Number of materials from each area included:
Practical Life: 16 Language: 8 Mathematics: 4 Sensorial/Culture: 7
Have a Early Childhood Complete Classroom Package for $25,733.34 PDF
Have a ‘Premium Classroom Sensorial Package’ for $530.
Catalogues of Montessori Materials
A 1913 brochure printed by the House of Childhood (inc) of New York. One of the earliest commercial American catalogs for authentic Montessori equipment, produced shortly after Maria Montessori’s methods gained popularity in the United States (around 1910–1913). The company emphasized selling the materials only as complete sets ($150) , not individual pieces, to preserve the integrity of the method.
GAM (Gonzaga Arredi) PDF
Manufacturers / Suppliers of Montessori Materials
Montessori Album
“There are many different companies that sell Montessori materials, and the prices of these can vary by a lot.” To help with this, the creators of the Montessori Album website have created an invaluable list of 178 Montessori materials and books, each one a unique link containing either the presentation or a list of presentations which use each material, followed by a list of sellers and their prices.
For example, The Land and Water Globe ……
Little surprised that Nienhuis is only the second most expensive supplier.
| Store | Price |
|---|---|
| Adena | $33.88 |
| Affordable Montessori | $39.00 |
| Alison’snot sandpaper | $38.58 |
| Alison’s | $60.00 |
| Bruins | $93.00 |
| E & O | $67.50 |
| IFIT | $32.00 |
| Lord Company | $25.00 |
| The Materials Co. of Boston | $24.00 |
| Montessori Concepts | $33.00 |
| Nienhuis | $74.20 |
| Thinkamajigs | $38.95 |
| Alison’s | $36.75 |
The following list comes from that Montessori Album supplies page:
| Supplier | Notes |
|---|---|
| A2Z Montessori (Australia) (New Zealand) | Materials in all subject areas |
| Absorbent Minds Montessori (UK and Europe) | Materials in all subject areas |
| Absorbent Montessori | Materials in all subject areas. Free shipping on orders over $199 |
| Adena Montessori | Materials in all subject areas. Classroom package bundles. Free shipping on orders over $200 |
| Affordable Montessori | Materials in all subject areas. Shipping Policy |
| Albanesi Montessori | Materials in some subject areas |
| Alison's Montessori | Materials in all subject areas. Large furniture selection. PDFs in various subject areas. Shipping Policy |
| Big Picture Science Learning | Printed science materials. Science PDFs |
| Bruins Montessori | Materials in all subject areas. Furniture |
| Clocca Concepts | Printed materials. Supplementary materials |
| E & O Montessori | Materials in all subject areas |
| Early School Materials | Materials in several subject areas |
| Educational Sounds & Images | Language materials |
| ETC Montessori | Materials in all subject areas. Printed curriculum |
| Great Extensions | Stamps, dice. Other supplementary material |
| Hello Wood | Wooden Montessori materials |
| IFIT | Materials in all subject areas |
| Juliana Group Montessori | Materials in some subject areas. Large furniture selection |
| Kid Advance Montessori | Materials in all subject areas. Classroom package bundles. Arts and crafts supplies |
| Leader Joy | Materials in all subject areas |
| Lord Co. | Materials in several subject areas. Furniture |
| Maitri Learning | Printed material |
| Mandala Classroom Resources | Printed material for Elementary |
| The Materials Co. of Boston | Materials in all subject areas |
| Michael Olaf | Materials in several areas |
| Montessori 123 | Printed material |
| Montessori Concepts | Materials in all subject areas |
| Montessori Educativos | Materials in all subject areas |
| Montessori for Everyone | PDFs in various subject areas |
| Montessori Images | Printed material |
| Montessori Materials | PDFs in various subject areas |
| Montessori N' Such | Materials in all subject areas |
| Montessori Outlet | Materials in all subject areas. Furniture. |
| Montessori Print Shop | PDFs in various subject areas |
| Montessori Research and Development | Printed material. |
| Montessori Services | Practical Life materials. Books. |
| Montessori Stores | Materials in all subject areas |
| Nienhuis Montessori | Materials in all subject areas. Books. Montessori bells. |
| Pink Montessori | Materials in all subject areas. Small sizes of some materials for homeschoolers. |
| Priority Montessori | Science Materials |
| Waseca | Materials related to biomes |
| Wintergreen | Materials in all subject areas (formerly Mindset, and before that Cabdev Montessori) |
| Young Minds at Play |
Wooden materials https://www.montessorialbum.com/montessori/index.php/Supplies |
The following list of suppliers comes from the Montessori Answers website .
Montessori Materials – free downloadable Montessori materials
Matri Learning- Makers of Montessori book and card materials