Recycled Kitchen

This is my very first link up to Montessori Monday-

#1 because I’m new to the Montessori blog addiction and integration into our home classroom.

 

#2 because I steal everyone else’s ideas

This-technically I got from a friend after having coffee with her last week.

My children: Ladybug, Thing 1 and Thing 2 and Jack-Jack NEVER played with their play kitchen.  They have tons of foods and play plates, etc to go with it-occasionally I would see one of them using it, but not often enough to keep it.  Until after I was at M’s house-her In-Law’s had given them a small wooden play china hutch and she put a few of her girls’ dishes in there so they felt like they were helping Mommy.  GREAT IDEA.  So, much like everything else I read-I did the only honorable thing left to do.

I stole it.

The idea, not the girls’ new china hutch.

I moved my new tea cart to the hallway and slid the kids’ kitchen into my kitchen.  I added the napkin holder and cleaned out all the drawers and added all of their dishes. 

I put their placemats on the top and now each child has to do something at meal time.  In the mornings, by the time they get up-I’ve finished the dishes and one of them (generally the older 3) but Jack-Jack also likes to help sometimes –has to put away their dishes in their kitchen.  After a week-they now do it without being asked and one of them assigns another to a task and together (all 4) they set the table with their items.