The coolest unit study for kids is this amazing caves, crystals, and caverns unit study. It rocks!!! If you haven’t incorporated these ideas into your learning I definitely think you should. Caves are so cool and what a fun thing to learn about. I hope you enjoy seeing these fun Montessori inspired hands on learning activities.

Montessori ~ Hands on Learning
Caves, Caverns, and Crystals Unit Study
We started off our unit study like we always do with great books. The kids really enjoyed reading Tim’s Cave Adventure a story written by Nathan and Teresa Hadsall. Tim explores caves, caverns, speleothems, cave creatures, cave paintings and so much more. It is very exciting and informative.


Starting to make crystals ~ Learning the process
Preparing ~ Mixing ~ Waiting ~ Observing





Every month we have a family movie night and this month we chose Brother Bear 2. It seemed like the perfect movie for a cave theme and cave art ideas.
I usually try to include a fun sensory bin into a theme we are learning about. For this caves and caverns unit I came up with this easy and super cool cave sensory bin. Head over here to see how I put it together.
Last but definitely not least we went hunting for caves. We even found this really cool cave area in a park we visited. The kids were really excited to end our caves unit this way and I am sure there will be many more Montessori by Mom experiences in our future.


Montessori Inspired Botany for Kids

Love this! Will feature this in Learn & Play Link Up this week. Thank you for sharing!
I can’t wait to try the bear cave activity! Will incorporate it in our Bear Hunt FIAR. And I must start looking for those yummy bear cookie counters! So cute!
What a neat unit study! So many cool activities!
Ooh! This is such a great post! I love the crystal activities – I haven’t tried that with my kiddo but I have a feeling he’d enjoy it very much! Also, the bear counters you used were so cute 😉
How fun and cool learning for kids..
Growing crystals is one we haven’t done yet. Looks pretty neat!
Thanks! It was a lot of fun.
Great collection of activities – I do love growing crystals with students