Here is a nice series of pictures of using the Montessori tying dressing frame.
Step one untie the bows and knots.
Step two open flaps of dressing frame and put one side back and pull back the ties, do the same for the other side.
Step three tie a knot.
Pull up middle of crossed over ribbons and pull through top ribbon.
This is a good place to stop for a first step. If your child is able, go on to making bows.
Step one-Place two fingers on middle of ribbon
Step two-make a bow around your two fingers.
Step three-loop the other ribbon loosly around the bow.
Step four-Pull folded white ribbon through the loop. Pull gently on both bows until secure.

If you are using shoes instead of the dressing frame just use two different colored shoe laces. Find ones that are thick as possible. Also, make sure they are the right length-not too short or too long.
Here are some more ideas-How to Tie Your Shoe

Toddlers can do activities on the line besides walking on it. You can have your toddler sit on the line or next to it, crawl on the line, and run their hand along the line. Keep in mind the physical development of your children to help them use this exercise in a fun and positive way.
If you have cars in your toddler environment, make a double line that can be used as a road. Use a different color tape for the road to avoid confusion. Pushing a car along a line is a great exercise for eye-hand coordination, control of movement, spatial & physical exercise of keeping the car on the line, and it is just plain fun.
For a more advanced exercise, make roads with roundabouts that go onto a road in another direction. My older children loved making tape roads and designs on a special “road rug.”

Some Montessori preschools introduce walking the line with a half a circle or a curved line. After introducing the curved line to our students, we found that many of the children were unable to turn their foot continuously on the curved line! We tried a straight line, and it worked great. After mastering the straight line, we then made a curved line for walking & balancing exercises.

Paper Flowers are so much fun to make. They are so easy that even young children can help make them. This foil flower has easy to follow, illustrated directions and it’s made from ordinary (aluminium) foil.

This site has fun and easy math activities to do at home or school. The lessons target children from preschool to grade school.
Here are some of the fun things to do-Math at Home, Math at the Grocery Store, Math on the Go and Math for the Fun of It.
These activities are very Montessori like!

We’ve been writing and drawing lately. It seems almost sad that after a certain age we quit drawing, and even writing ! I think that we give way to the rigors of writing and drawing, so much so that we loose our desire to draw and write. We usually quit drawing around the age of adolescence.

Maria Montessoir believed we should study those who write or draw to find out the science of the human writing, not have the method of writing dictate how the human should write.
In the Montessori Method she states:

Let us observe an individual who is writing, and let us seek to analyse the acts he performs in writing,” that is, the mechanical operations which enter into the execution of writing. This would be undertaking the philosophical study of writing, and it goes without saying that we should examine the individual who writes, not the writing; the subject, not the object. Many have begun with the object, examining the writing, and in this way many methods have been constructed.

But a method starting from the individual would be decidedly original–very different from other methods which preceded it. It would indeed signify a new era in writing, based upon anthropology.

A good book to get you back to drawing again is Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. It has activities and insight on how the creative process works.

Here are my favorite bingo game printouts. They include the American Montessori Grammar Bingo Game, Math Bingo and Alphabet Bingo. You can print out this clock worksheet and use it for a clock bingo game too! Bingo is a great way to learn concepts without the tears and boredom of memorizing facts.

This site has a great interactive lesson on the sounds of the alphabet A through Z. It’s a great review for adults too. Just sit back a listen for each sound.