Montessori Blogs Worth Reading: A Curated Reader
If you want one Montessori blog, read The Montessori Notebook. If you want the un-photogenic reality of running this in a full house, read The Kavanaugh Report. Everything below that is a question of which job you need doing — a room to set up, a shelf to fill for a specific age, a small apartment to make work, a rainy Tuesday to fill. This is that list, sorted by job rather than by follower count, with an honest note about which archives are still growing and which have gone quiet.
How this list was chosen
Three filters, all of them boring. Photographs of real rooms — if every shelf is styled, cropped and beige, I can’t tell what happens on day four. A named human writing from their own house or classroom, not a store’s content team. An archive deep enough to be worth searching — a blog that answers the question you’ll have in six months, not just the one you have today.
What I deliberately did not weigh: aesthetics, posting frequency, or whether the writer sells anything. Several of the best archives here haven’t published in years and are still the first place I’d look.
None of these writers are involved with this site and none of them endorse it. This address hosted a genuine multi-blogger network from around 2014; it does not any more, and the honest version of that inheritance is to send you to the people who kept working. The full story is on the about page.
Room setup and real shelves
How We Montessori is the deepest room-and-shelf archive on the internet, full stop. Years of month-by-month shelf photographs across several children, plus bedroom, bathroom and entryway setups shown as they actually looked. When you’re staring at an empty corner wondering what a fourteen-month-old’s shelf is supposed to hold, this is the search box to use.
Montessori in Real Life is the one I recommend to apartment families. It’s honest about square footage, about sharing rooms, and about the fact that most of us are fitting the method into a house that was not designed around it.
Our own room material is the function-first version of the same idea: the Montessori bedroom setup walk-through covers the pieces people ask about most.
Materials and activities, sorted by age
Living Montessori Now is the index. Deb Chitwood has been cataloguing activities, printables and themed units since long before most of this niche existed, and the value is in the sheer searchable breadth — pick a theme, find twenty ideas, ignore eighteen.
Every Star Is Different runs the most thorough seasonal and thematic units anywhere, with a particular strength in adapting Montessori work for children with additional needs. Their winter archive is where our own animals in winter activities sent me first.
Trillium Montessori sits closer to the teacher end — Seemi Abdullah’s material is written for people running classrooms, which makes it excellent when you want to know how a work is actually presented rather than what it looks like on a shelf.
Natural Beach Living is the big-batch idea source: enormous lists, sensory bins, seasonal play. Less doctrinal, more useful on a Tuesday afternoon than most.
The first year
Nduoma is Junnifa Uzodike’s site, and it is the best writing available on Montessori from birth — movement freedom, the infant environment, and the parts of the first year where the method is mostly about restraint on the adult’s side. She co-wrote The Montessori Baby, and the blog reads like its working notes.
The Montessori Notebook is Simone Davies’ own site and the closest thing in this niche to a straight answer. If a question has a contested answer, she says so.
Family life, with more than one child
The Kavanaugh Report is the long-running record of Montessori at home with a large family, including the years it went badly. Nicole Kavanaugh writes about the unglamorous middle — siblings, budgets, a house that is genuinely lived in — better than anyone.
Our Montessori Life and Mama’s Happy Hive are both quieter archives now, and both worth the dig, particularly for homeschool-adjacent families working across a wide age spread.
The dormant ones, and why they’re still here
A working link is not the same as a growing blog. Several of the archives above publish rarely or not at all, and I’ve left them in because Montessori material ages unusually well — a 2016 post about how to present pouring is not stale, because pouring hasn’t changed. Where a blog has genuinely gone dark and its domain has lapsed, I’ve left it out entirely rather than send you to a parked page.
The other reason to be careful with recommendation lists in this niche: a large share of “top Montessori blogs” roundups are assembled by companies selling wooden toys, and the ranking is a function of who accepted a guest post. Assume that about any list, including this one — and note that this site has no arrangement with anyone above.
Where to read next
If you’d rather read a book than a feed, our Montessori books for parents list covers the eight actually worth owning, several of them written by the people above. If you want a single curated entry point into the community’s seasonal work, the 15 Days of Montessori hub is this site’s oldest outward-facing page and the one it was born to run.
Suggestions are welcome, including your own blog. The only thing that will get a link removed is a request from the writer.
FAQ: Montessori blogs
What is the best Montessori blog for beginners?
The Montessori Notebook, for clarity, and How We Montessori, for pictures of real shelves. Between them you get the philosophy in plain language and a visual answer to “what does this look like in a house”.
Are Montessori blogs a reliable source for the method?
For practice, yes — the good ones are written by trained guides or by parents documenting years of trial and error. For doctrine, go to the source: AMI and AMS publish their own material, and Maria Montessori’s books are still in print. Treat confident pedagogical claims on any blog, this one included, as a starting point rather than a citation.
Do these bloggers work with this site?
No. This domain hosted a real multi-contributor network from around 2014 until roughly 2017; the current site is a restoration run by different writers. Nobody linked here is involved with it or endorses it. We link them because they do the work.
Which Montessori blogs are still actively publishing?
Publishing rhythms change constantly, so rather than freeze an answer here: check the front page of any blog above before assuming it’s active. Several of the most useful archives are effectively finished works, which for this subject matter is not much of a problem.
Is there a Montessori blog for small apartments?
Montessori in Real Life is the one to start with. The general principle travels: fewer things, lower things, and one prepared corner beats a dedicated room you don’t have.
