My seven-year-old was sweeping the kitchen, and we kept fussing at her for doing it all...crazy. She was all over the place. So, I remembered the "sweeping the bean" activity I saw in a Montessori pre-school. Now, she's genius at it.
Materials Needed: masking tape, broom, dust pan with brush, cereal or beans
Set-up and Presentation:
1. Tape a three sided square on the floor. (I hope you have better luck with your tape than I. See below.)
2. Throw Rice Krispies on a limited area of the floor.
3. Retrieve broom from it's "home."
4. Demonstrate how to hold broom, plant feet, and sweep around self, drawing all debris back to the taped square.
5. Demonstrate using dust pan and dumping contents into the trash.
6. Throw Rice Krispies down again and let them try.
7. Instruct child to repeat as often as desired, as long as the floor is clean once she is finished.
My seven-year-old repeated this on her own several times. In the end, we taped three squares all over the kitchen so that she could effectively sweep an actual floor. We explained that in the future, she choose an imaginary square in each area of the kitchen to sweep into, rather than dragging all the dirt across the floor to the square on one side of the room.
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