Free Peace Printables and Montessori-Inspired Peace Activities

Peace education is an important part of Montessori education. And peace can never be emphasized enough. So I decided to devote my unit this month to peace education. I’ll be sharing free peace printables, including our new Montessori-inspired peace pack (subscriber freebie).

And I’ll be sharing lots of mindfulness activities and resources at my BitsofPositivity.com blog, since peace within makes peace in the world much more likely.

The links are for free peace printables for preschoolers through 1st graders (sometimes older). I don’t share coloring pages unless a page has a specific educational purpose related to peace. To simplify matters, I won’t be sharing specialized peace printable, such as Martin Luther King, Jr., printables, here today. I’ll save those for Martin Luther King’s birthday observances. And I’ll be sharing mindfulness printables, such as meditation and yoga printables at my Bits of Positivity blog during the next month.

Free Printables + Materials Used in the Pictured Peace Activities for Preschoolers-First Graders

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Montessori Shelves with Peace Themed Activities

You’ll find Montessori-inspired peace themed numbers, letters, and and more (part of my subscriber freebie pack, so just sign up for my email to get the link and password … or check the bottom of your latest newsletter if you’re already a subscriber)

I always have related books available throughout a unit. I have a number of beautiful peace books this unit, including What Does Peace Feel Like?, Peace is an Offering, and Peace. One of my favorite peace books is the gorgeous National Geographic book A Little Peace. It has stunning photographs throughout with just a few meaningful words. At the end are the pages you see open on the right side of the top shelf. Those pages tell about each photograph and where it was taken. I added my continents globe to the shelf to go with the book.

You could mix your peace-themed activities among your shelves according to curriculum area. Or you could have a special peace-themed area something like the one pictured. My shelves have a mixture of skill levels. Many of the activities can be adapted for a variety of levels. If you’re a homeschooler, just choose the activities that work for your child’s interests and ability levels. If you don’t have room for all the activities you’d like to do, simply rotate them.

I typically have a peace activity on one of my shelves each month, but this time I’m devoting my whole unit to the peace theme.

Peace Books and Peaceful Character Work

Free Printable: Peaceful Character from Montessori Print Shop

I love that the 6 pillars of peaceful character are respect, caring, fairness, responsibility, trustworthiness, and citizenship … the same as the Character Counts 6 pillars of character. So this work is easily adaptable for children at a variety of ages worldwide.

This was so easy to prepare. After printing, I placed the materials on a Multicraft tray. Because my 5-year-old granddaughter, Zoey, loves small books, I made the 6 pillars descriptions into a little booklet using a binder ring. I added crayons so she can color each part of the hand according to the character trait listed.

Children Around the World Sorting Activity

Free Printable: Children Around the World Cards from I Believe in Montessori at Teachers Pay Teachers. Update: Unfortunately, this printable is no longer available. This free printable of Children Around the World by Nichole Peterson at Teachers Pay Teachers is available.

Toddlers can use a few cards at a time for a simple matching activity if you print two of each. Preschoolers can sort the cards by continent.

P is for Peace Sand Writing Tray

Free Printables: Peace Symbol Letters for peace writing tray (part of my subscriber freebie pack, so just sign up for my email to get the link and password … or check the bottom of your latest newsletter if you’re already a subscriber)

For the sand tray (see middle shelf above), I used the wooden tray from the Melissa & Doug Lace and Trace Shapes. You can use whatever tray or container work best for you, though. I had gotten some lovely white sand for making kinetic sand and other projects. I used that sand to make it more like a peace garden. I also used polished stones for letter building. Zoey loves these stones, and they give it more of a meditative feel. I added the wooden stick from our wood tracing board for letter writing, although a tool isn’t necessary.

If you would like help with introducing phonetic sounds, introducing objects with sounds, or beginning phonics in general, check out my DIY Beginning Montessori Phonics with Preschoolers.

Peace Word Analysis and Word Building with Phonogram Cards and Movable Alphabet

Free Printables: “ea” peace phonogram cards and “ce” peace phonogram cards (part of my subscriber freebie pack, so just sign up for my email to get the link and password … or check the bottom of your latest newsletter if you’re already a subscriber)

Free Printable: “ea” Sound with Letters from MontessoriSoul

Free Printable: Hard and Soft C and G Posters (reduced in size) from Make, Take and Teach

“Peace” is a tricky word for young children to analyze. So I made two phonogram cards. You can introduce “ea” and/or “ce” (soft c). For this type of work, Zoey will read the “ea” booklet. Then she’ll read the words on the soft c card. After that, she’ll build the word “peace” with the movable alphabet.

I have a post and video on how to introduce words starting with phonograms, even with very young children. There’s an explanation of soft and hard c on that printable. It’s fine to use that explanation for the soft c.

DIY Dove Cards and Counters

Free Printables: Dove Numbers (part of my subscriber freebie pack, so just sign up for my email to get the link and password … or check the bottom of your latest newsletter if you’re already a subscriber)

I love making DIY themed cards and counters to introduce odd and even and add interest and variety to cards and counters. I found these mini doves to add interest. You need exactly 55 doves if you want to do the numbers and counters 1-10. The package contains 144 doves, so there are many for other activities, too.

For Zoey and other kids who are already comfortable with symbol and quantity, I’ll typically use the cards and counters for hands-on addition, subtraction, and other mathematical operations. (See some of my other themed posts for ideas.) But sometimes I like to use the odd and even labels that are in our peace pack. The doves would be fun for addition and subtraction because some could “fly away” for subtraction, etc.

Hundred Chart Counting to 100 and Skip Counting Work with Peace Symbol Charms

Free Printable: Hundred chart from Creative Family Fun

I found these pretty vintage antique silver alloy peace symbol charms (100 pieces) inexpensively on Amazon.

I love using printable hundred charts to extend Montessori hundred board work. They’re also wonderful for skip counting as well as adding and subtracting practice.

Zoey loved the little silver peace symbol charms and had fun counting to 100 while she placed a symbol on each square.

Then she enjoyed skip counting with the peace symbol charms. She used them to skip count by 2’s, 5’s, and 10’s. It was a great activity!

Peacemakers Cards or Booklet

Free Printable: Peacemakers Cards from Natural Beach Living

The cards on the bottom right of my shelves (see above) are some inspirational peacemakers (including Maria Montessori) and short biographies of each. You can use these for matching or make a booklet like I did.

Free Peace Printables for Preschoolers-First Graders

Montessori-Inspired Peace Pack for DIY Cards and Counters, Number or Letter Matching, Number or Letter Basket, Bead Bar Work, Hands-on Math Operations, Number or Letter Salt/Sand Writing Tray, Letter Tracing, DIY Movable Alphabet, and Creative Writing (subscriber freebie, so just sign up for my email to get the link and password – or check your inbox if you’re already a subscriber).

Peace Lesson from Montessori Opportunities
Printable List of Ideas on How to Teach Kids about Peace (subscriber freebie) from The Natural Homeschool
Peace Words for Kids (subscriber freebie) from The Natural Homeschool
Collection of Printable Peace Signs (could work well for pin pushing work) from Clipart Library
Friendship Flower Activities from NAMC’s 3-6 Montessori Homeschool Program
Printables for I See Peace
Peace Printables from ISL Collective
Peace Printables from Teachers Pay Teachers

All My Peace and Mindfulness Activities and Resources

I’m including mindfulness activities because feeling peace within is a great step toward expressing peace toward others.

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