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Summary: Teach your child to develop their olfactory skills with smelling jars. Learn how to use smelling jars 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 a lesson in how to present smelling jars. This particular one is a teacher made activity. I just have four different sets of salt and pepper shakers. Inside them I have a cotton ball. In this one and this one, I have a cotton ball that has vanilla extract on them. Maybe this one and this one, we have a different sent. Just make sure that you have two that are matching in each side. I also have them separated. This is the salt shakers and these are the pepper shakers so I have them separated in that way as well. So this is how you present this activity. Those do not smell the same. Those smell the same. Those do not smell the same. Those do not smell the same. Those smell the same. Those smell the same. Those smell the same. Those are smelling jars. I'm going to put them back so it's ready for my friends."
eHow Article: Smelling Jars Montessori Activity