Guide

Montessori at home

About HeyMontessori

HeyMontessori helps parents move from reading about Montessori to running a week of it at home. Everything published here is reviewed before a parent sees it.

What this site is for

Montessori is easy to read about and hard to start. HeyMontessori exists to close that gap: you answer four questions about your child and your week, and you get a short week you can actually run — what to put out, one change to make at home, and one thing to watch.

How the week is built

Every week is assembled from reviewed records: activities, materials, home changes and observation prompts. Nothing is generated from thin air, and nothing appears in a week until it has been reviewed and approved.

The week is deliberately short. One activity a day is a full week, and "nothing happened" is a normal outcome you can record at the end.

Household things first

Most of what a child between two and six needs is already in your kitchen. Where a purchase genuinely helps we say so plainly, and where a household substitute works as well we say that instead.

How we handle claims

We do not make claims about development we cannot support. Where a statement rests on Montessori's own written work, we cite it. Where the previous version of this site made a claim we could not support, that claim was removed rather than softened.

No accounts, no email capture

You can build and keep a week without creating an account. Your week lives in its link, and you can save that link to come back to it. We do not ask for an email address for something we cannot yet send.

Who this is for

Parents of children roughly two to six, at home, with limited time, ordinary houses and no training. Homeschooling families use the same week builder in a homeschool framing.

Corrections and questions

If something published here is wrong, we want to know and we will correct it. Every record carries the reviewer and the date it was reviewed, so a correction can be traced to the version it changed.

Put this to work this week

A week gives you what to gather, one change at home and one thing to observe. It starts with four short questions.

Sources and review

Nothing publishes here without a named reviewer and the sources it rests on.

Reviewed by Editorial review · August 2026

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