Summary: Help your child identify items through the mystery bag game. Learn how to use the mystery bag to teach in this free educational video clip about Montessori preschool methods.
Tami Elliot is the owner and a teacher at the Northstar Montessori Preschool in Saline, Michigan. She has over twenty years of experience working with children, and she has owned and...read more
"This is called the mystery bag. You can use any items in the bag that you would like. I am going to use our miniature geometric solids. Make sure you have two of the same item. I am going to start by putting one set in the bag. You have the child reach their hand in the bag, and you say "Can you find the spear?". Have them reach in the bag. You can't look. And pull out the spear and it matches. "Can you find the cube?" If they pull out the wrong item, what I say is, "Oh, I see you found the prism. Can you find the cube?" That is a cube. This is a cylinder and this is a cylinder. And that is the way that you play mystery bag."