Treasure Basket

If you have read How To Raise An Amazing Child the Montessori Way by Tim Seldin, you may have come across the Treasure Basket. Creating a Treasure Basket was one of the first Montessori things I did. It's simple and doesn't cost a lot to put together, just some thought in gathering the items together.

Above is our Treasure Basket. The basket came from Sam's Warehouse for $8 and everything else we already had in the house. Below is a picture of what is in our basket at the moment

• rattle
• shoe
• bowl
• baby wipe wrapper (see below)
• stainless steel egg cup
• silicon egg ring
• wooden spoon
• stainless steel sugar bowl
• box

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Shoe - A&G are fascinated by shoes, they don't have shoes at the moment, so I brought a pair placed one in their basket. This shoe has been closely examined by them on numerous occasions and is often the first item to be extracted.

Rattle - I know it's plastic, but they love it. It came from a charity shop, they use to just shake it, but now they roll it across the floor. They are also very enthralled by the small balls rolling around at the ends.

Sugar bowl - Feels different and has an interesting lid with a small handle at the top to practise their pincer grip. They like to lift the lid up, then let the lid go and listen to it clatter. Oh wow, what an interesting noise that makes. Let's do that again. On occasions they have been known to fight over the sugar bowl.

Bowl (Green) - A new addition to the basket and by far their favourite . It makes a very interesting noise on the tiles, and is the right shape and size to spin across the tiles.

Black box  -  Another  new addition to the treasure basket it contains three items inside which rattle, A&G are practising taking the lid off the box. It take a lot of concentration.

Lastly the baby wipes. This is a empty packet, which I have cloth wipes inside. They like to take tissues out of box, and this is a variation. At home with Montessori covered this in her blog where they used a pringles tube. .