Description

Sieving serves two purposes in the Child’s development. Firstly, it improves gross motor muscles, and secondly it helps develop focus, patience, and concentration.  Using the small tea strainer or sieve will help develop all these skills. Using the small tea strainer, or sieve will develop all these skills. The size of the holes in the sieve determines which materials will pass through it.  The Guide can plan simple experiments, that involve the sieving of different materials.

The small, 500 ml tea pot in the illustration, provides the context to illustrate the size of the tea strainer.

Objectives of the Small Tea Strainer and Sieve

• the Child learns how to sift various products, and to understand what happens to each product when it is sifted e.g. flour, sugar and water
• indirectly, they
  • improve gross muscle control
  • hand-eye coordination
  • concentration
• this activity supports the traditional Montessori practical life curriculum

Features of the Small Tea Strainer or Sieve

• made of strong stainless steel

Dimensions

• 19.5 cm long x 7 cm diameter / (7.7″ x 2.8″)

Related Products

• look at this product, if you are wanting a bigger Strainer or Sieve
• introduce the Child to various utensils, enlarging their vocabulary, with the Baking 3-part cards
• the soft fruit cutter is the perfect first knife

Further Reading and Reference Materials

1. Using sieving in the sensory activities, written by the Prairie Girls’ Guide to Montessori
2. Sifting flour by the Ann Arbor Children’s House.com