Our Sensorial area is where you will find many of the materials that people generally associate with Montessori. The iconic pink tower, sturdy brown stairs and the beautifully precise knobbed cylinders. However there are plenty of materials you can make yourself that can fit under this category. The idea is for the materials to isolate a sensorial concept. So maybe an activity focuses entirely on smell, like the smelling jars which are extremely easy to DIY or maybe it focuses primarily on visual discrimination like the color mat I have displayed here. In many homes sensory bins are also a staple. Although sensory bins are not really Montessori aligned I do find them to be well loved by children and very useful, if for nothing more than to fill some time for some adult breathing room! I will be sharing plenty of sensory bin ideas along with my DIYs in this area.