Black Friday is the perfect opportunity for homeschool moms and Montessori enthusiasts to stock up on essential learning materials, tools, and resources at unbeatable prices. Whether you’re looking to expand your practical life activities, enhance your math and language sets, or refresh your creative supplies, this shopping guide has you covered. With curated deals that align with Montessori principles, you can make the most of this shopping season while staying true to your educational values.
And, yes, learning materials make excellent gifts! If you were a homeschooled child yourself, chances are you received a lot of educational gits for your birthday, Christmas, or other holidays. Let’s dive into the best Black Friday finds to enrich your homeschool environment! I could not believe the deals happening right now, especially after watching the prices of Montessori materials climb over the past few years.
I’ll be adding more as they are published, so check back through Friday.
montessori homeschool & play black friday finds
Amazon
- YOLEO Pikler Triangle Montessori Climbing Gym Set (29% off) is on sale for $99.99, plus save an extra 10% with promo code VADG3YBN. It has been so fun using this with my grandson who has become an amazing climber!
- JeJoue Montessori Moveable Alphabet Set in Wooden Case: Save 20% on our favorite lowercase moveable alphabet set that INCLUDES capital letters for only $27.98 (this is a wow deal).
- Adena Montessori Sandpaper Letters Uppercase Sign Language Edition (20% off) was $35.95, now just $28.76: Children feel the shape and structure of letters through touch, this product enhances their understanding and memory of letters. Incorporating sign language elements on the reverse side adds a whole new learning experience. Sandpaper letters will be used in our language arts curriculum, so now is a good time to grab them at a discount.
- Adena Montessori Lower Case Sandpaper Letters – Cursive (20% off) was $49.99, now just $39.99: 26 cursive lower case sandpaper letters for preparation of writing and reading. Consonants are on pink wooden boards and vowels are on blue boards.
- Asweets Montessori Bamboo Wooden Alphabet Tracing Board (30% off) was $9.99, now just $6.99: 9 x 7 letter tracing for toddlers and preschool kids.
- Adena Montessori Basic Wooden Grammar Symbols with Box (20% off) was $29.98, now just $23.98. These are the grammar symbols I sourced for years for a Montessori curriculum company, a beautiful set!
- Adena Montessori Object Permanence Box (45% off) now just $15.95: I bought this for my grandson last year. The option with wood, plastic, and crocheted balls is neat for observing, feeling, and hearing the difference in these materials.
- Full-size Adena Montessori Musical Spinning Drum with Mirror (28% off): Infants can use this for tummy time and after!
- WoodenFun Rainbow Balls in Cups (31% off): This wooden sorting activity for preschoolers works on color recognition, sorting, hand-eye coordination, and fine motor skills.
- MEROCO Montessori Animal Match (40% off) was $14.99, now just $8.99: Insect or marine animal figurines with matching cards for discovering animal names, letter sounds, word recognition, and reading Zoo, poultry, forest, or farm animal sets are available for just a little more. Like all Montessori materials, perfect for toddlers, preschoolers, those with special needs, and occupational therapists.
- Thoth Montessori Wooden Geoboard Mathematical Manipulative with 36Pcs Pattern Cards and Rubber Bands (30% off) was $19.99, now just $13.99: Learn all types of different 2D shapes and see fractions in a new light. Kids love making shapes, letters, and designs while developing grasp, fine motor, and visual motor skills.
- Adena Montessori Tracker Ball Drop (20% off) regular price of $59.99 is less than I paid last year, now just $47.99, a classic Montessori toy.
Rainbow Resource
Thousand cubes: Want to do the Montessori 45 layout but don’t want to spend $$hundreds on JUST thousand cubes? Supplement your supply with these incredibly economical paper thousand cubes you fold yourself. Regularly $17.50 on sale for $11.48 for 25 cubes! Depending on your child, you might want to add a clear layer of contact paper.
Womple Studios
Save 20% on the entire Womple Studios site with promo code EARLYDEALS. The Womple geography kits make fun gifts and cute supplements to a Montessori-inspired geography exploration of the world. They also have interestingly unique stuffed animals that turn inside out to a black side with glow-in-the-dark bones. A cuddly way to show the skeletal systems of a variety of animals!
subscriptions
Green Kids Crafts
Give the gift of learning STEM and STEAM learning for kids ages 3-10+. Each box has 4-6 screen-free, hands-on projects that inspire kids to exercise creativity, develop a love of discovery, and learn about the world around them! Sign up for a 12-month plan & get 3 months free or a 6-month plan & get 2 months free! CODE: BESTDEAL
Brain Pop
Use promo code THANK50 to save 50% on your first year of BrainPOP At Home! This K-8 learning platform has animated educational movies, fun quizzes, and learning activities that build background knowledge and ignite curiosity. Whether you’re seeking homeschool curriculum support or new ways to connect (and extend) learning between classroom and home, BrainPOP At Home has a subscription plan that fits every family.
Reading Eggs
Save 65% in their biggest sale of the year! Save on Reading Eggs and Mathseeds with an annual plan for just $59.99/year for the complete online learning suite. Valued at $167. That works out to be just $5.00 a month. The subscription includes access to Reading Eggs, Reading Eggs Junior, Fast Phonics and Reading Eggspress, and Mathseeds.
black friday deals for bookworms
Tuttle Twins
Tuttle Twins is offering two massive bundles at 75% off for Black Friday. Everyone I know (including me) loves the children’s book series that brings students a great understanding of foundational principles in fun, animated 60-page illustrated readers. Teach your kids ideas like money, property rights, free markets, personal responsibility, natural rights, and more.
Black Friday Bundle for ages 5 to 11 is $93.88 (Save Over $300! – Value: $395.36): The Entire Children’s Book Series + ALL the Add-Ons! You get:
- 14 Paperback Children’s Books
- 14 Activity Workbooks (PDF)
- 14 Audiobooks (MP3)
- 14 Parent Guides (PDF)
- Tuttle Rebuttals E-book (PDF)
The second option, the Black Friday MEGA Bundle gets you EVERYTHING! The toddler books, children’s books, both the fiction and non-fiction teen books, history books, curriculum, audiobooks, workbooks, parent guides, and MORE! This is the deal of a lifetime with savings of over $850. For $268.88, you get $1,129.34 worth of products for the whole family.
black friday deals on living history
Colonial Williamsburg
Save 50% on annual passes to this fabulous homeschool destination! Get unlimited admission to Colonial Williamsburg’s Historic Area and Art Museums, for less than the price of a single-day ticket. Plus, enjoy passholder benefits through December 31, 2025.* That’s an extra month free! This offer is only available online through 11:59 p.m. EST on December 3, 2024. Williamsburg usually holds periods of Homeschool Days twice a year.
black friday finds for music education
Learn Music in Our Homeschool
Through December 2, 2024, you save 30% off Learn.MusicinOurHomeschool.com courses, digital downloads, and bundles with promo code THANKS2024. (does not apply to memberships.) BONUS: If you spend $30 or more, the workshop “Music 101 for Moms” ($29 value) will be added to your cart for as a FREE bonus! Here are just some of the courses you may like:
- KinderBach (ages 2-7)
- Singing Made Easy (all ages)
- Music of Christmas (all ages)
- Music for Holidays & Special Days (elementary)
- 15-Minute Music Lessons (elementary)
- Recorder Time with Mr. Jerry (elementary)
- Intro to Musicals (elementary)
- Learn Classical Music with Cartoons (elementary)
- 10 Weeks of Shakespeare ~ An Introductory Course (7th-12th grades)
- Beginning Music Theory (teens)
- Music Appreciation: Middle Ages Thru Classical Era (high school)
- Romantic Music Appreciation (high school)
- 20th Century Music Appreciation (high school)
HABBA
HABA’s offers a lovely selection of high-quality, Montessori-style, open-ended play options. Many of the wooden toys are UNTREATED beechwood.
- variety of threading games (up to 50% off) for numeracy and fine motor skills
- Clever Up! Building Block Systems of various levels starting at age 1 (up to 31% off)
- Geo Shape Tack Zap large 100-piece or small 50-piece sets (up to 20% off)
- beautiful Varius 21 Piece Wooden Building Blocks Architectural Block and Arranging Game with tangram templates (33% off)
- High Flying Adventure Bundle with bald eagle kite and 22” glider (25% off discounted bundle price)
- Little Friends Happy Horse Riding Stable (50% off) that could be used for a modified Montessori Grammar Farm
- Great selection of puppets up to 40% off, notably mouse and dog puppets with holes in the shoulders so your thumb and pinky become the arms (so cute!), a musical rhino with squeaking bagpipes, a musical donkey puppet with rattling drum, and hand puppets with baby finger puppets (crocodile
- easy to hang Doorway Puppet Theater *Note: This is an amazing space-saving idea. If you are crafty, take a look; you may be able to replicate it with the fabric you have lying around the house. I have a Shakespearean Globe Theater puppet theater that we did not use as much as I would have liked simply because it took up so much space that it was often out of the way in storage. You could put this up and down in seconds and easily tuck it anywhere.
- Terra Kids Connectors sets (up to 50% off) are open-ended building toys for older children with an unusual twist–your child forages, saws, drills, and joins materials with the Terra Kids-Connectors to create endless interesting animals with natural materials. Very Montessori! The principle is simple and ingenious: gather wood outdoors to work with at home. Drill holes, insert connectors, and connect to another piece of wood. The animals gradually come to life. The instructions contain suggestions for other projects.
- Also for older kids, Terra Kids Block and Tackle (25% off) for some seriously fun, open-ended real-world play.
Comment below with your favorite Black Friday deal, and I’ll add it to the list!
Much mom love,
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