Do you ever wonder where to find the best sources for Montessori materials? Amazon is a great source to find anything, including Montessori materials! In fact, I am an Amazon affiliate and often recommend Montessori materials and educational products that I use effectively with my students. I purchase them from Amazon myself because it’s so convenient.
However, the materials offered are limited to a select few.
Where do you find a full curriculum of Montessori materials? Where can you find the interesting activities you see in Montessori classrooms, on Pinterest, and Instagram?
I curated this list of the best sources for Montessori materials revealing the secret haunts of Montessorians everywhere!
Best Source for Montessori Manipulative Materials
Alison’s Montessori sells quality products at an affordable price. A traditional Montessori company, they have been around for many years. They offer manipulative materials for traditional Montessori lessons like the Bead Bars and the Moveable Alphabet, as well as extension lessons like cloth number lines, and coordinate plane mats. They also offer many task cards to support the manipulative materials.
My years of ordering materials from Alison’s for classrooms and homeschooling have been an overall good experience.
They offer an economy line, a premium line, and a homeschool line at different price points. Occasionally I see Alison’s materials on Amazon, which is very convenient!
Best Convenient Source for Montessori Manipulative Materials
Elite Montessori is fast becoming a favorite because of its quality, accessibility, and price point. As a small business, they offer materials via a storefront on Amazon. Everything I have ordered from them is beautiful, well-made, and arrives promptly.
While they make beautiful materials, Elite Montessori is limited in the materials they offer because they are a small company.
Best Source for Child-Sized Montessori Materials
Montessori Services specializes in child-sized tools for the kitchen, outdoor work, and handicrafts. Child-sized tongs, spoons, ladles, and pitchers facilitate the gross and fine motor skills in transferring objects, scooping, pouring, and tweezing. In addition, they sell child-sized trays and organizers for those activities. They offer everything needed for Practical Life exercises like food preparation, sewing, yard and garden, and woodworking.
In addition to practical life implements and activities, Montessori Services offers work rugs and mats, baskets, boxes to organize curriculum materials, book displays, and furniture.
Montessori Services provides curriculum for infants/toddlers through upper elementary. Curriculum areas include art, music, history, geography, math, and language. Two of my favorite materials are the collection of language objects and the cloth multiplication checkerboard.
Finally, they have a books and resources section for parents and teachers.
Best Source for Biome, History, Universe, and Reading Materials
Best known for their biome work correlated with the needs of people, Waseca also offers a reading phonics program, continent study, and grammar.
Stunningly beautiful wooden materials and cloth mats set Waseca apart from other companies.
Their A-Z PDF library offers FREE downloads of cultural materials and phonics workbooks that complement their manipulative materials.
Best Source for Timelines, Math, and Language Nomenclature Curriculum Materials
ETC Montessori produces beautiful interactive history timelines.
They offer full curriculum nomenclature sets for preschool through 6th grade in all subject areas. Nomenclature is the naming and describing of things in a particular field of study. Students use pictures, labels, and description cards (the nomenclature work) instead of textbooks in a montessori classroom. ETC also offers containers to organize the work on the shelves.
Best Source for Math Task Cards
Conceptual learning task cards complement the physical manipulative math materials. However, they also work for children who work at the abstract level. The cards give depth to a child’s work with the materials and help him/her to think mathematically about the processes.
Best Source for Math and Language Extension Materials
As it’s name implies, this company stands out for the unique extension materials used with traditional manipulative Montessori materials.
Beautiful quilted mats for math work give a soft, comfortable experience. Unique dice and stamps for math and language vary the work experience.
This list of the best sources for Montessori materials is not exhaustive. Other wonderful websites and creators sell beautifully made materials I have not listed. These are my favorites. The ones I return to again and again to strengthen and enhance my teaching. I hope you find something useful to light your way.