How I would have loved these resources during my years teaching in Montessori schools or in my own homeschool! I still find it amazing that there are so many free Montessori materials available online today. What great resources for parents and teachers alike!
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Note; I went through every link here before updating and republishing this post. If you have materials I should add or see something that should be changed, just let me know!
The little experience I had with using free online downloads for teaching was wonderful. I had WAY too much fun during my 2006-07 master’s program in early childhood studies. Because I had completed my B.A. so many years ago (and before the Internet), it was almost magical for me to do much of my research online and find free Montessori materials online to use in my school placement at a day nursery.
With free online downloads, it’s easy to create professional-looking Montessori materials. For school or home use, all that’s needed to prepare most of the materials is paper or cardstock, printer and printer ink, paper cutter or scissors, and lamination (which is preferred but not essential for home use). Montessori Print Shop has some great instructions for preparing Montessori materials.
Following is a listing of sites with free Montessori downloads.
Note: Almost all of these sites also has Montessori printables available for sale as well. I’m just sharing the free printables here, but if you look around on the sites, you’ll find the printables available for sale, too.
The Pioneers of Free Montessori Printables with Large Collections:
Number Rods Control Chart and Number Cards from Montessori Print Shop
Montessori Print Shop was one of my main sources for free Montessori materials during my school placement. Along with many materials for sale, it has a very nice selection of free Montessori materials.
Montessori for Everyone was another great source of free Montessori downloads for me. The site also has an extensive selection of downloads for sale, both at the preschool and elementary levels.
Montessori Materials was started to help homeschool moms and has a wide selection of free downloads (the downloads with purple links).
Wikisori encourages collaboration among Montessorians and has many free information and downloads.
Montessori Mom has another extensive collection, and everything offered through the site is free.
Free Montessori Printables from around the Blogosphere (organized alphabetically by my computer):
Free Backyard Birds 3-Part Cards from 1+1+1=1
1+1+1=1 has a section of free Montessori printables along with lots of other free printables.
At Bits of Positivity, I have lots of free Montessori word art/quote printables (instant downloads).
Carrots Are Orange has a free Montessori printable each month for subscribers plus free printables at Teachers Pay Teachers.
Chestnut Grove Academy has many free printables, both instant downloads and subscriber freebies.
Confessions of a Montessori Mom Blog has a free Montessori homeschool PDF.
Free Life Cycle of a Star Printable from Counting Coconuts
Counting Coconuts has many free printables (instant downloads).
Cultivating Dharma has free downloads of timelines and other cultural activities.
E & O Montessori has free sample pink and blue picture word cards and labels.
Dinosaur Unit with Free Printables from Every Star Is Different
Every Star Is Different has many subscriber freebies (Go to Free Printables tab at the top of the Every Star Is Different blog to see the related blog posts.)
Foresight Montessori (includes the former Helpful Garden) has many subscriber freebies.
Förskoleburken has a free extension of the knobless cylinders.
Free Montessori Resources has many free resources (instant downloads) for both primary and elementary.
Green Tree Montessori Materials has a number of free Montessori printables at Teachers Pay Teachers.
Homeschool Escapade has free geometry, math, and English Montessori instant downloads.
Homeschooling My Kinetic Kids has many free Montessori 3-part cards to go with Safari Ltd. TOOBS (along with other printables).
Honey’s Life has free 3-part cards on India, symbols of America, and parts of a bird (instant downloads).
Free Beautiful Places on Earth Cards from I Believe in Montessori at Teachers Pay Teachers
I Believe in Montessori has free printables available through Teachers Pay Teachers.
Free Montessori Continent Cards from Imagine Our Life
Imagine Our Life has many free Montessori printables.
Just Montessori has some free printables at Teachers Pay Teachers.
Free Rocks and Minerals Classified Cards from Little Schoolhouse in the Suburbs
Little Schoolhouse in the Suburbs has free Montessori checklists, natural science cards, Great lessons, human anatomy, and magnetic puzzles (all instant downloads).
Magical Movement Company has a freebie collection (subscriber freebies) of Montessori music and arts downloads. Magical Movement Company also has free printables at Teachers Pay Teachers.
Free Shell Matching and Classification Printables from Making Montessori Ours
Making Montessori Ours has many free printables (instant downloads and subscriber freeebies).
Mama’s Happy Hive has many subscriber freebies along with free printables at Teachers Pay Teachers.
Midwest Montessori has a few free printables (instant downloads).
MindSprout has a page of free printables (instant downloads).
Montessori Album has a page of free printables (instant downloads).
Montessori Assistant has some free printables (instant downloads).
Montessori for Learning has a whole page of free Montessori printables.
Leaf Insect from Types of Insects Cards at Montessori Helper
Montessori Helper has free materials available by registering.
MontessoriKiwi has free printables in the MontessoriKiwi shop and at Teachers Pay Teachers.
Montessori Nature has many subscriber freebies and a freebie at Teachers Pay Teachers.
Pictures and Letters for the a-e Sound from MontessoriSoul
Montessori Soul has many free Montessori printables (instant downloads).
Montessori Up! has a page with many free Montessori printables (instant downloads).
Montessori Workjobs has free work plans with pictures for non-readers and free nomenclature cards (all instant downloads).
Mummy’s Homeschool has a page of free Montessori printables (instant downloads).
Natural Beach Living has a variety of free printables, both instant downloads and subscriber freebies as well as free printables at Teachers Pay Teachers.
Our Worldwide Classroom has a number of free Montessori printables (instant downloads).
Research Parent has lots of free printables (instant downloads).
Savy Activities has free printables (subscriber freebies).
Sugar, Spice and Glitter has free CVC worksheets (instant downloads).
Teachers Pay Teachers has many free Montessori printables. You have to register to download the printables.
Temple of Ganesha Montessori has an upper elementary unit on leaves available in a free download.
The Helpful Garden has joined with Foresight Montessori, which doesn’t have instant downloads but has many subscriber freebies.
US Landmarks and Symbols (Photo from The Homeschool Den)
The Homeschool Den has pages of free printables (instant downloads). Many of them are Montessori printables.
A number of my monthly themes include a free culture card (instant download) from The Montessori Company.
The Montessori Notebook has a variety of free instant downloads.
The Natural Homeschool has a page of free printables (subscriber freebies), including many Montessori printables, along with free printables at Teachers Pay Teachers.
Shark Matching and Fact Cards from The Pinay Homeschooler
The Pinay Homeschooler has a page of free Montessori printables plus free printables at Teachers Pay Teachers.
Training Happy Hearts has a number of free Montessori-inspired printables.
Parts of a Kangaroo Nomenclature Cards with Definitions from Trillium Montessori at Teachers Pay Teachers
Trillium Montessori has many subscriber freebies as well as free printables on Teachers Pay Teachers.
Volcano Mama has instant downloads and subscriber freebies.
Free Montessori Printables Found in More Than One Language:
Eltern vom Mars has a page with a variety of free Montessori resources (instant downloads) in German.l
Escuelita Montessori has a number of free Spanish Montessori downloads at Teachers Pay Teachers.
Leptir has a page of free downloads. Many of the materials are in Croatian, but the lines for cutting paper and some of the other activities work for any language.
Montessori en Casa has some free printables in English and Spanish.
Montessori en El Hogar has free printables in Spanish.
Montessori EtCie has free Montessori printables in French and English.
Montessori Materials (a Swedish blog) has Montessori printables in Swedish, some in English, and some without words. (I think you have to email for the printables.)
Welcome to Mommyhood has Montessori themes and other free printables in English and Russian (subscriber freebies) plus free printables at Teachers Pay Teachers.
Wise Owl Factory has Montessori printables that are instant downloads as well as ones that are subscriber freebies. Some are available in more than one language. Wise Owl Factory also has a variety of free printables at Teachers Pay Teachers.
Z lesa has some Montessori materials in English and Czech. Some of the printables can be used without words.
Free Montessori Albums and Lesson Plans:
Cultivating Dharma has Montessori elementary albums.
Maitri Learning has some free Montessori lesson plans.
Miss Barbara has lesson ideas and links for the Great Lessons.
Montessori Album has a growing collection of Montessori lessons.
Montessori Helper has some free Montessori lessons.
Wikisori also has Montessori albums.
Free Montessori Elementary Materials
Although you’ll find any free Montessori elementary materials through this post, I have a post with specifically free Montessori elementary materials online.
More Free Printables That Can Be Used to Prepare Montessori-Style Activity Trays
I tried to put the sites I knew have free printables on the Free Montessori Materials Online list or the Free Preschool Printables for Activity Trays list. Many of the printables on my Free Preschool Printables list are great for preparing Montessori activities even if they weren’t designed specifically as Montessori printables.
Free Printables at Living Montessori Now:
Karen Tyler, who is retired from her KHT Montessori online course gave me her wonderful AMS-style, 177-page Montessori geography album to give free to anyone who signs up for my mailing list (see sidebar). Thanks, Karen!
I have lots of posts with free Montessori printables that are instant downloads, such as my free themed cutting strips and free themed do-a-dot printables.
I have a subscriber freebie library with an exclusive Montessori-inspired free printable pack for my email subscribers each month. Learn more here: Sign up for the Living Montessori Now newsletter and get monthly subscriber freebies.
I’m also updating this post as I find new free Montessori materials online!
Do you have a favorite free online Montessori download or source for free downloads? If you have free Montessori printables that I missed, please let me know!
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Do you happen to know anything about Miss Barbara and the Great Lessons pages? – her site seems to be down as well.
Thanks for letting me know about that, Suzanne! It’s so frustrating when that happens. I’ll leave the link up for awhile in case it’s just a temporary problem. I’m worried the site may be down permanently, though. Deb
i really appreciate your materials. thanks
Thank you!! Huge help! Love that you include other languages as well. Thank you!
I’m visiting from the Learn and Play link-up on Every Star is Different. I’m new to Montessori but I love making printables. I have over 80 printables for free on my blog (inourpond.blogspot.com).
Thanks for the list. I have a bunch of tabs open for new websites. I visit this one frequently from Pinterest. You always have so many good ideas for my own “Mommy School” lessons. Thanks.
Hi,
I’m Lily from Malaysia. I would like to set up a Montessori space for my babies and slowly develop it to becomes a Montessori pre-school (hopefully). It’s so great that I’ve found your website and it is really helpful! I am really appreciate it. Thank you 🙂
Thank you so much for all the links! I’m a new homeschool mom who’s a little overwhelmed. I’m just trying to do my best and find our groove. After reading and studying my daughter’s personality and learning style I feel like montessori will be a great fit for her. She was in a montessori type public school class for the first 5 years of school and thrived and then it was discontinued and she crashed at which point we decided to homeschool. Sit down, be still and be quiet definitely doesn’t work for her. Your site has been a God send.
HI Deb,
I wasn’t sure if this would be the place to contact you about my new “Subscriber’s Freebie Collection” at my website. I set it up a few weeks ago and I have some very nice Montessori materials there, including my newly revised eBook. I also just added a page at my website where my newest feature, Montessori Magic Fridays will be archived from my FB postings. For the past several months, I have been posting a free resource each week that goes along with my theme of the week that includes articles, youtube videos and activities from around the web, including my own activity downloads and my mp3 music downloads. I would love to be included in your resource list above. Please let me know if that is something for this list!
I enjoy reading your posts etc. I just have one question.
Is the updated way of making n/c cards. The correctly highlighted part instead of the red, accepted by the Montessori international association?
Reason for asking, I would like to start changing the ones I have made