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Object to picture matching and growing vocabulary: just another day with our Getting Ready for Baby Discovery Box. 🌵🌿

Putting clothes on some babydolls can even be frustrating for adults, so always keeping toddlers in mind, we've custom designed the babydoll's onesie in our Getting Ready for Baby Discovery Box in a way that is age and skill appropriate: stretchy, soft fabric, sleeveless, and three reinforced snaps. Oh, the joy of dressing baby independently! 💚🌵🌿

"From caring comes courage." -Lao Tzu 💚 It isn't always easy learning to be a big brother or sister, but providing invitations to care for baby gives an older sibling the space to find courage while facing new challenges. 🌵🌿

“The child builds his inmost self out of the deeply held impressions he receives." -Maria Montessori 💚 By learning to change a baby's diaper and participate in all areas of care for baby, the older sibling receives the impression he is a valued, needed, and important member of the family. 🌵🌿 Find this and other activities in our Getting Ready for Baby Discovery Box.

Preparing a bath for baby: practical life, care of others, completing a sequence, and learning to be a big brother all in one activity. Check out this and other materials from our Getting Ready for Baby Discovery Box in our store: https://www.cactusandfern.com/store/ 🌵🌿💚

Happy baby pose, happy toddler. We know toddlers are made to move, so every Discovery Box includes a gross motor invitation to do just that. Check out this gross motor invitation from our Getting Ready for Baby Discovery Box and others in our store: https://www.cactusandfern.com/store/🌵🌿💚

Check out our NEW Getting Ready for Baby Discovery Box in action! And remember to use promo code BABYISCOMING for free shipping today! 🌵🌿💚

Baby number two will be here any day now! One of my biggest priorities has been to prepare Camden (at 2.5 years old) as much as possible for life as a big brother, so we put together a Montessori inspired Getting Ready for Baby discovery shelf. These activities encourage gentle interaction with the baby and help to introduce him to baby care tasks such as diaper changes, dressing baby and baths. It has been such a joy to see him work on these activities with a baby doll. I just can't wait to see him in action with his new brother or sister!

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Introducing our new Getting Ready for Baby Discovery Box! We're celebrating its release with free shipping all day using promo code BABYISCOMING. See all the details in the shop: https://www.cactusandfern.com/store/getting-ready-for-baby

Your toddler will go goo-goo gah-gah for this discovery box as he prepares for baby: learning to dress and bathe baby, expanding his vocabulary for objects, activities, and emotions associated with having a new baby in the home, and practicing to refine big toddler movement in order to safely interact with baby when she arrives.

This box includes:
Language: We Have a Baby book.
Matching/Correspondence: Nursery objects and matching cards, printed on cardstock and laminated. Includes muslin bag for storage.
Fine Motor: Snaps and velcro: dressing baby set, which includes one babydoll-sized onesie, diaper, and wipe pouch with three fleece wipes. Includes muslin bag for storage.
Gross Motor: Love yoga and affirmation cards from Kids Yoga Stories. Includes 18 yoga cards (printed on cardstock and laminated) and muslin storage bag.
Practical Life: Bathing baby set, which includes babydoll, towel, washcloth, and small bottle for soap.
“What's Inside Your Getting Ready for Baby Discovery Box” card: Provides ideas and inspiration on ways to introduce and explore these materials with your toddler.

We love to celebrate new Discovery Boxes with free shipping on ALL our boxes! And TOMORROW, we're releasing our much loved Getting Ready for Baby Discovery Box! Enjoy free shipping TOMORROW with promo code BABYISCOMING! 🌵🌿💚

"To assist a child we must provide him with an environment which will enable him to develop freely." --Maria Montessori 🌵🌿 You will find in our Autumn Discovery Box materials to help you prepare your toddler's environment in the kitchen, which will invite him to freely prepare baked cinnamon apples: a picture recipe, an apple slicer, a peeler, and a mortar and pestle. 🍎 Shop now: https://www.cactusandfern.com/store/autumn-discovery-box-1

What's better than a new Discovery Box? A new Discovery Box and free shipping all day with promo code AUTUMNISCOMING!

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Your toddler will fall for this discovery box as she explores the season, learning the language, colors, activities, and, even, the tastes associated with autumn.

Language: Autumn book.
Matching/Correspondence: Leaves matching cards from The Montessori Company, printed on cardstock and laminated. Includes muslin bag for storage.
Fine Motor: Wooden apple tree threading and lacing series.
Gross Motor: “Autumn Morning on the Farm” game, printed on cardstock and laminated. Invites toddlers to listen, move, expand vocabulary, and color sort.
Practical Life: Baked cinnamon apples kit. Picture recipe (printed on cardstock and laminated), apple slicer, peeler, and mortar and pestle.
“What's Inside Your Autumn Box” card: Provides ideas and inspiration on ways to introduce and explore these materials with your toddler.

TOMORROW we're releasing a new Discovery Box, and we'll be celebrating all day with free shipping when you use the promo code AUTUMNISCOMING. 🍎🍂🌽 Any guesses what the new box's theme will be? 😉

Our boxes are not a part of a subscription. Buy as many as you want, whenever you want. We will, however, be releasing 1-2 new themed Discovery Boxes each month, so you can pick and choose each month what's right for your toddler and family. 🌵🌿💚

Didn't win the giveaway? At Cactus & Fern, everyone wins!!

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, you've won the Weather Discovery Box! But wait! Everyone wins today! Use promo code EVERYONEWINS for 20% off ALL our Discovery Boxes from now through Sunday CST!! Shop: https://www.cactusandfern.com/store/ 🌵🌿💚

Every Discovery Box includes an activity to refine your toddler's fine motor skills. In our Bee Discovery Box, it is a bee gluing kit. Oh, we 💚 observing a toddler at work! 🌵🌿 More information about this and other Discovery Boxes found on our website: https://www.cactusandfern.com/

, you've won the Weather Discovery Box! But wait! Everyone wins today! Use promo code EVERYONEWINS for 20% off ALL our Discovery Boxes from now through Sunday CST!! Shop: https://www.cactusandfern.com/store/ 🌵🌿💚

**Time's up! Winner announced 8/21!** GIVEAWAY! We are excited to celebrate our launch with a FB/IG giveaway of our Weather Discovery Box! To enter: 1. Like this post. 2. Like . AND 3. Tag a friend (or many friends) in the comments. **For THREE additional entries, share this post, making sure you tag and use the hashtag . Want even more chances to win?? Head over to IG and enter there, too! Giveaway ends Thursday, July 20th at 8:00 p.m. CST. Winner will be chosen at random and announced on Friday, July 21st at the top of this post. Giveaway ships to U.S. only. More information about this and other Discovery Boxes are found on our website. https://www.cactusandfern.com/ Good luck!

Our custom made articles of clothing provide a three-dimensional language opportunity, and the matching cards appeal to a toddler's sense of order by also matching in size. 🌵🌿 Check out this and other materials from our Getting Dressed Discovery Box: https://www.cactusandfern.com/.

A little puzzle work and a lot of weather discovery. 🌵🌿 Check out this and other materials found in our Weather Discovery Box: https://www.cactusandfern.com/

The moment when you discover the bee's thorax. 🌵🌿 Find this and other Bee Discovery Box materials in the store: https://www.cactusandfern.com/

Someone's very enthusiastic about his work. One of the many reasons we 💚 toddlers at Cactus & Fern! 🌵🌿 Check out this precipitation transfer series and other enthusiasm-inducing materials in our Weather Discovery Box: https://www.cactusandfern.com/

One of our favorites from our Weather Discovery Box: sorting works of art by the weather. All cards are toddler friendly, laminated with rounded corners. 🌵🌿 For more information about this and other discovery boxes: https://www.cactusandfern.com/

"The human hand allows the mind to reveal itself." --Maria Montessori 🌵🌿 Capable toddler hands completing our practical life precipitation transfer series from our Weather Discovery Box.

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Everything a toddler needs in one box: language development, matching/correspondence skills, fine motor skills, gross motor skills, and practical life skills.

And everything a parent needs, too: ideas and inspirations to help you and your toddler get the most out of the materials.🌵🌿

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Your toddler will be all sunshine with this discovery as she learns and identifies various weather elements and explores the characteristics and effects of weather.

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Your toddler will be dressed in excitement with this discovery as she examines articles of clothing from near and far and practices the small and large body movement needed to dress and care for self independently.

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Your toddler will be buzzing over this discovery as he explores the parts and lifecycle of a bee, shakes his sillies out by moving like a bee, and helps to save the bees, one flower seed at a time.

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