Four pairs of bottles allow children to distinguish and pair the basic tastes: sweet, salty, sour, and bitter.
Differently colored caps help organize the activity and enable clear use of the aid during a Montessori lesson.
The aid naturally develops the naming of tastes and provides practice with adjectives, their degrees of comparison, and their use in sentences.
Moyo Montessori Taste Bottles are based on the principles of Montessori education and are designed to purposefully refine the sense of taste. The child compares individual solutions, looks for matching pairs, and learns to recognize the basic tastes. The taste itself provides the control of error.
The aid supports the development of expression and expands vocabulary with the terms sweet, salty, sour, and bitter, including their degrees of comparison. It can also be used to create connections with the everyday environment, for example, “The salt is salty.”
The following items are needed to prepare the activity:
When preparing the activity, use only safe and appropriately diluted solutions. It is recommended to start with the sweet taste, then include the salty and sour tastes, and leave the bitter taste until the end of the activity.
