Peg Loom Weaving Set Review and Giveaway!
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Recently I received a Peg Loom with Wool Yarn (item #V54) from Montessori Services (also known as For Small Hands) for review. My 7-year-old daughter loves crafts, so we eagerly opened it up and started weaving!
Some of the loom features I really like are:
1) The loom is made of wood and the yarn provided is 100% wool
2) The directions are clear and easy to understand
3) The loom is easy to use
After weaving the included string on the loom to make the warp, we threaded the needle and started weaving. My daughter has done projects like this before (making potholders on plastic looms) so she had a good idea of how to do it.
It does take time to weave the yarn all the way across the loom. In about an hour, my daughter had woven yarn halfway across the loom. We did use double yarn in the needle as recommended for faster weaving.
Here are my daughter’s thoughts about the loom (as she weaves on it, see picture):
“I think that you should be careful when going over and under with the yarn because it’s easy to do it wrong. I think that kids ages 5-10 would probably really like it. It comes with lots of yarn in nice colors, and you can make many things with it.”
The instructions include suggestions for several projects, including wallhangings, purses, carpets, and pillows.
I think this craft is a great way to bring practical life activities into any home or classroom. As it says on the box:
“Boys and girls love to weave! Designed to help develop fine motor control, dexterity, concentration, and basic mathematical skills.”
Thank you to Montessori Services for letting us try this great item!
But it gets even better…
Montessori Services is providing one peg loom set as a giveaway right here on our blog!
PLEASE NOTE: The prize ships to the US/Canada only. International readers, if you have a relative or friend that lives in the US or Canada who could accept the package for you, please feel free to enter!
The details:
• PRIZE: A Peg Loom with Wool Yarn set from Montessori Services (a $24.95 value)
• TO ENTER: Leave a comment on this post (not on Facebook); ONE comment per person
• BONUS QUESTION FOR COMMENT: What is your favorite practical life activity?
• GIVEAWAY CLOSES: Monday, December 12 at midnight CST
• NUMBER OF WINNERS: One
• PRIZE SHIPS: US/Canada only
Winner will be chosen by random.org and posted Tuesday morning, December 13th.
Good luck and happy weaving!
Picture of Peg Loom used by permission of Montessori Services.
This looks wonderful! Thank you for a great giveaway!
My favorite practical life activities are those that get the kids into the kitchen cooking!
Ooo, my 3-6 children would LOVE a loom!! My favorite practical life activity? Fruit slicing and serving. The children learn so many lessons about grace and courtesy in addition to the classic Montessori aims (concentration, coordination, and independence)
Lovely giveaway. I would also say practical life lessons that involve food are my favorites as well.
I would love to get my son working on a loom. It would help with his attention issues. I really enjoy the scooping and pouring exercises and coming up with seasonal variations.
My favorite practical life activities are sewing- both sewing cards and button sewing.
My favorite is the sweeping activity. What is better than your child cleaning up after themselves!
Looms are fantastic. Our favorite PL activity right now is bead looming. Probably too advanced for most 3-6 kids, but perfect for our 6-9s. Excellent hand-eye coordination and length of focus work.
Gorgeous loom! My favorite practical life lesson is any that involve cleaning (sweeping crumbs, wiping tables, drying and washing dishes, etc.) I love the look of pride on my daughters’ faces when they’re able to contribute through their own efforts.
As an intern supervisor, I am constantly reminded that most Practical Life areas lack cultural purpose and basic skills. Weaving in so many different cultures, for example, make weaving meaningful curriculum, as it should be.
I love looms. In fact, I would be anxious for some instructions for the large standing loom that I bought at the AMS Conference in Chicago that came with no instructions. I think the same one was offered in a giveaway a while back on this site. In Practical Life, I like tool activities. The children love having a tree stump in the room into which they can hammer nails.
Cooking is my favorite practical life activity. Thank you for the giveaway opportunity.
My favourite practical life activity is slicing fruit and vegetables. LOVE the loom.
My favorite practical life activity is polishing.
Thank you for the giveaway.
My favorite practical life activity is the water pouring from a pitcher exercise. Such a simple task but difficult for young ones to master. Thanks for the giveaway and the chance to comment.
This Looks wonderful! I’d like to win this.
I would LOVE to win this!
Thank you for the opportunity.
My favorite Practical Life activity is preparing a snack and then cleaning after. It involves so many different skills and really helps with self-esteem.
We have a Fiber Arts area in the classroom, this would be a wonderful addition! My favorite PL activity is any type of grinding. Especially large chalk pieces that we grind into salt and funnel into a large clear bottle for a beautiful sand art appearance!
My students would absolutely love this on our practical life shelf. I teach lower elementary. My favorite practical life lesson is sewing. The best feeling is seeing the students excitement after they have completed a project.
We enjoy transfering.
OOO practical life!!! I would love this loom for my classroom!!
Our classes are really enjoying grinding their own coffee in the PL area right now. I found an old fashioned grinder at a yard sale with the turn crank on top and the drawer to catch the ground coffee beneath. Of course, they love giving their ground coffee to mom and dad!
This will be lovely for my school. Must say the children love pouring activities the most, especially with water…
Hand-crafts are my favorite Practical Life exercises-like knitting and crocheting.
I love the idea of bringing weaving into the classroom. This loom looks to be a perfect size for my students.
The loom material would offer the child a very sensorial experience. The colors and texture of the yarn and the activity would offer lots the child an incredible opportunity for focus and concentration. I would put out several pre-loom weaving projects to practice the concept. I have used a wire-coated dish holder purchased from the Container Store and a variety of 1″ colored ribbon and the children wove over and under and under and over. This worked quite well. Then we went to a laminated paper version. I would love the loom that Montessori Services offer to continue the process in Practical Life. It would be an added dimension and a precious gift for the child to take home.
Weaving is my favorite oractical life activity. So colorful and so creative. Keeps my kids just busy and occupied.
I love cooking, cleaning, sorting, pouring…the first time I say my 3 year old pouring water out into cups- i was enlightened!!
I would love to win this beautiful loom for my son! Our favorite PL activities are pouring water and sewing.
Thanks for hosting this giveaway!
I would love to win this loom as a gift for our wonderful elementary students. With tight budgets, we could not add much to their classroom this year, and this would be a wonderful addition. thanks so much for the opportunity!!
My daughter is ready for a loom. I would love for her to have one.
Our favorite practical life activity is sweeping and polishing!
My daughter would love a loom! Favorite practical life activity? Folding towels.
I used to be a weaver. Weaving is so meditative. Play some Bach to accompany the rhythm of the weaving.
In 3-6 my favorite PL activity is transferring straight pins from a pincushion to the holes in a salt shaker and back again. It promotes refined small motor contro, OCCI and is also meditative. You can have the work in the classroom all year by just changing the salt shaker, the pin cushion and the type of straight pins (different heads.)
In my 6-9 class my students cook lunch every Wednesday for the whole class ( and lately all of the Primary and Pre-Primary faculty, too .) The children are divided into four teams so each child cooks once a month. Recently the cooking team peeled 10 lbs. of potatoes and 10 lbs. of carrots. They grated 6 lbs of cheddar cheese and chopped 6 large onions. We had a wonderful potato casserole with steamed carrots. The week before fruit skewers and …You get the point.
This loom looks WONDERFUL! My favorite PL activites are sewing and flower arranging!
This would be just perfect for my son! He definitely could use a little fine motor skills practice and what a fun way to do it!
This would be such a great addition to our homeschool environment! We love products from Montessori Services! We own a few, mostly science, geography and sensorial activities and books. One of our favorites is Sprout and Grow Window:)
My daughter loves to knit and weave. This loom looks like it would be easy to use.
Ohhhh my daughter would love this!!!!! Our favorite practical life work is a hard pick! I think that pouring with a funnel is the current favorite right now on our shelves! Thanks for hosting this amazing giveaway!
Love the loom and my son could use it to refine his fine motor skills. My favorite practical life activity is sewing, my son prefers polishing and my daughter loved table washing.
What a great tool for little finger fine motor movement as well as for concentration and patterning work. My favourite practical life activity is pouring water or rice. In fact, any practical life activity has so many wonderful things attached to them. I love it all.
My daughter and I would be so happy to have this new material to work on! Our favorite practical life activities are in the kitchen; cooking, serving, and even cleaning up! I would love to introduce sewing and working more with creating useful things…like the loom.
This looks awesome! My DD would love this. We also love cooking as a PL activity!
Ah, looms. They are so relaxing and fulfill many learning experiences; fine motor, eye-hand coordination, sensory experiences with varying yarns and fabrics and of course the math! The patterning, measuring, counting, balancing, predicting and on. My classroom currently loves any art that involves a mathematical element.
Practical life favorite? So many… right now, the hand coffee grinder is the most popular item. It’s made from a lovely wooden box with a hand crank and a small drawer. I put it out with two bowls (one with coffee beans, one empty), a spoon, a note depicting clockwise and a small whisk broom and dust pan. Learning to hold the grinder as you crank and discovering clockwise in a physical manner, spooning the beans, dumping the ground coffee from the small drawer, sweeping up the bits that have fallen to the floor and of course feeling the crunch as you grind and smelling the delicious aroma!
Our favorite practical life activities right now are dusting and setting the dinner table, which thrills mama! We’d love the loom.
Love the weaving looms. in some strange ways they are very calming and excellent motor skills co-ordination.
Favorite practical life is cooking and cleaning. Thanks!
Love your review and the picture. Looks great.
Practical Life.. . window washing.
My daughter just saw a loom similar to this in a catalog and proceed to circle it as a Christmas wish list item. This would be a great way to introduce her to knitting and sewing, while working on her fine motor skills!
Practical life? …..She loves cooking and setting the table, including creating centerpieces for the table and gifts for all the people at the table. She’s loving the holidays with all the opportunities to give and create!
Thanks for this chance to win the loom!
I’d love this weaving loom for my son!!! I would have to say my favorite Practical Life activities are those lessons that involve food. I love how once children have prepared their foods such as banana slicing, how eager they become to share with their friends. My son’s favorite lesson is squeezing oranges to make orange juice, he can be there for hours before letting it go!
I was just looking for one of these to order! We have so many PL favorites. My children love coffee grinding and nut cracking the best. I think I love vegetable slicing!
I would have LOVED a lap loom as a kid! I wore my potholder-making loom out, I made so many.
And now, this would be fun to share with both my own daughter and the classroom of 3-6 kids. 
My favorite PL activity is either corn tweezing with Indian Corn or spooning dried peas with the tiniest wooden spoon that holds only one pea at a time or…well, it’s SO hard to choose! Practical Life is my favorite part of the classroom, I think, and SO important to them developing a sense of independence. YAY for Montessori education!!! And, thanks for offering this giveaway! 
Thank you for sharing such a beautiful item! My favorite practical life lesson is any that involve cleaning. The children are always so proud when they see their efforts so practically rewarded!
My daughter is almost 6 and is really interested in crafts and arts.
We both love cooking and everything that involves water. ( pouring, washing hands, etc)
We would love to try out that loom! Our favorite practical life activity – well, there are a few! Mirror polishing, sewing (buttons!), and grinding grain with our grain mill from MS are probably at the top of the list.
This looks wonderful! I am sure my students would love working with it.
Thanks for a great give away.
My daughter and I love to knit, weave and try our hand at various crafts. Thanks for this wonderful post. My favorite life activity is sorting and cleaning of any kind because it involves classifying into collections and organizing them, while making decisions on where and how to group things…. a very valuable lesson in any walk of life!
I am so glad that you have posted this material … I have been looking for a wonderful weaving loom to add to my practical life area.
The elementary students in my class love to finger weave and make string bracelets …u this loom would make a great addition to our shelf.
what a wonderful idea, thank you.
our favorite practical life exercise right now is “apple work” and “carrot work” so – snack time!
Our school would love to add this beautiful lesson to our classroom. My favorite practical life lesson is the preparing and serving snack in the Garden room. (our 0-3 children)
I’m a 6 to 9 Montessori Directress and my kids favorite practical life is defenetly cooking!! They love it.The thing is my cooking skills are very poor.That is what happened one day. Kyla goes home and told mam that the following day was cooking.So what are you guys gonna cook? Says mam.We are gonna teach Judith(me) me how to do french toast,she is not really good at cooking Kyla answears!!! We all love learning together!!!!
Our favorite practical life activity is cooking.
My classroom would benefit from winning this prize! Our favorite practical life activities are cooking, preparing the table, and eating family style.
I love practical life exercises! This is a great work, I would love to have it!
I have been wanting to teach myself and the kids weaving and this would be a fun tool to start with. Thanks for sharing!
Rowan adores using string any chance she gets
and we have waiting for the right time to buy one!!! Our favorite practical life is cutting and sorting.
My daughter has a round loom and loves it, So I know she would love this one!!
I have used this loom in my Montessori classroom for years. The children love it, especially the lower elementary level!
I love everything I’ve bought from Montessori Services. My current favorite practical life activity is using the carpet sweeper with my granddaughter.
My class would love to have this! Their favourite practical life activities are anything that involve sorting! They enjoy taking all of the books out of our library and sorting them back into the right places, sorting the recycling, sorting and folding the laundry the parents bring back, and sorting and itemizing the items we donate to an orphanage in Africa.
Great cooperative activity for practical life in the classroom.
Favourite PL activity: the floor, table cleaning activities, because they take the stigma away from ‘making a spill’, or the fear of the consequence. Instead the children are empowered to clean up after themselves or to help friends and feel confident and with self esteem intact!! That’s magical.
My 8 year old daughter would love this! Thanks for the giveaway.
This is beautiful. Currently my daughters use a cardboard shoebox for a loom, so this would be a serious upgrade!
What a gorgeous loom, my two daughters would LOVE it!
Their favorite practical life activity is cleaning — it’s a good thing, because our house is always in need of a good “Montessori shine”!
What a great exercise, I have two super enthusiastic little crafters who would love this! My favourite practical life exercise is polishing or opening and closing jars/bottles so basic yet it captivates and holds the attention of so many children.
I am from the Philippines. Working on a loom is an activity i experienced only when i was in the grades. It is in fact, an activity that is quite forgotten. Blame it to the kind of weather we have in the country. However, as one who really had retained enthusiasm of the activity 50 years ago, I would like to introduce the activity to my pupils again. Until now, i still the passion to it. Hope to train crafters soon. Thank you and God bless.
Wow what an awesome giveaway! I love ALL practical life, but the biggest hits in our classroom right now is the lock & keys and the nut cracker.
I teach Lower Elementary in a public school and look for meaningful practical life activities. Simple weaving on a teacher-made, cardboard loom last spring was a meaningful follow-up to a book we read on weaving in Central American countries. This year I want to have a wooden loom and do more complex activities. It’s best when projects arise from learning!
My son who attended Montessori public school Pre-k until he was ready for high school noted that they did not have a loom in the lower school, and that it would be an activity that the children would enjoy. We are still in contact with many of the teachers and could donate it to the school for future students to enjoy!
We are studying early America for our history. The loom would be great in our elementary classroom. The children need lots of different activities for practical life work. Activities were the children can make and take something away from it are the best. We are also finding that apple cutting is a favorite in our room, because they children like to share and eat the apples.
My favorite PLA is definitely cooking!
A favourite activity in our PL area are the polishing exercises; glass, wood, silver and brass – all popular. Weaving sure would become a favourite if we had a beautiful loom like this.
Thank you! I love these, and I love Montessori Services. My favorite practical life activity is the napkin folding.
My favourite practical life activity is cleaning, the students really enjoy it and they feel like they are contributing.
Would love to win it!!! I have been wanting a loom for a long time for our kids. Our favorite Practical Life works are sewing and food prep!
I’d love to win the loom! I love food prep.
Looks wonderful! My little Montessori kids would LOVE this! Thanks.
I just took a weaving class from an Apache lady, but we just used cardboard “looms”. I would love to use this at home and school! Right now my kids have been sewing sock puppets to along with the stories they have been writing.
This would be a great activity for even the older students! My 7 and 8 graders at my Montessori school would definitely give this a try! They recently sewed their own Christmas stockings too!
My favorite practical life activity is cleaning windows/mirrors because after I gave this lesson when I taught children 3-6, they could not get enough of it!
I like weaving as work in all classroom levels because it is great way to integrate the fundamental needs of man. When they make their own cloth, they value the availability of cloth in today’s world. It also promotes pattern recognition.
Sewing is my favorite practical life work because we can always use sewing to create objects as gifts–two-for-one!
We love this loom! We have a Practical life job called “Brushing Betsy”. We are able to have a nice Aussie/Border Collie mix dog in our classroom. She loves that job best. She is brushed and pampered and sent off to nap in the corner under the table. We are saving some of her clean hair from the brush to spin into our yarn. Want to use it in a woven item some day. Thanks for posting!
I would love to use this to show my students how important practical life activities are for focus + motor control along with a sense of accomplishment. I used one these as a child and loved it!
Also Thank you for all the wonderful ideas,downloads and things for purchase. Montessori should be available to all, which is what you do! Every child deserves what Montessori teaches us! Peace…
Elaine McLeskey/Prof Child Dev.
What a great gift! I have so many 5 year olds in my 3-6 class this year…they would love this.
Thanks you Montessori for Everyone
Hands-on activities such as these are critical for reinforcing key concepts and for to aid in managing behavior.
Anything with food is a favorite life skill!
My favorite practical life activity is “Let’s see how quietly we can do this?” I know it’s not exactly just one thing it applies to, but it really helps in the noise level of our home.
Thank you, Lori and Montessori Services, for this great give-away opportunity,
Michelle
My favorite seasonal practical life activity is “How to wrap a gift.”
Ohh, this is very nice, would be perfect for us
My favorite practical life activity is bringing in the firewood, make a fire in the stove, watch it for a while and sing some of our “fire songs” to inspire it 
what a great giveaway! such a great addition to a classroom..
My mom was a wonderful weaver but she sadly passed away last year -I was hoping she could help me teach my daughters how to weave. A loom would be a wonderful start.
My daughters would love this – they are interested in weaving.
Our favorite practical life activities are cleaning and pouring.
I have been dreaming of having a loom for our classroom! I tried to make it myself but it sadly didn’t work out….didn’t look to nice….pegs fell out…..and being a very small school with a very small budget, a loom never made it to us. I might be lucky this time!
My favorite practical life is everything with pouring and the clean up and using tweezers in every size/form/color….The children love to come up with stories why they should not touch the items with their hands but use the tweezers instead!
This would be great for my son. He loves creating things. Thanks for the chance!
My daughter would love to have this!
Her favorite practical life activity right now is using a dropper with colored water.
OH we’d just love this for my crafty little kindergartener.
Rebecca
My favorite practical life activities are the tool works. The nuts and bolts, wrench, or screwdriver works. They teach such vital skills that will truly last throughout the childs life.
It would be so nice to have a toy for my girls that is in no way affiliated with the Disney Princesses.
My students would love working with this loom and it would fit nicely into our Native American studies!
Thanks!
I like pouring in the practical life activity. Kids use all sense for hand-and-eye coordination, measuring a portion by feeling solid and liquid … kids love pouring water in cups in the bathtub. I believe this will eventually help them understand the fundamental knowledge of math for a long term. It never occurs to make me understand why kids like it, unless my oldest daughter goes to Montessori School. The weaving fascinated my daughter. Her teachers introduced a weaving using long leaves. Since then, she weaves leaves as soon as she finds it outdoor. The loom must excite her. Colorful strings themselves are pleasing her enough, and then she can use her little fingers back and forth. This would be a perfect gift for little children.
My 4.5 yo son loves spraying and cleaning the mirror, so I usually get him to do the windows and oven door as well
Thank you for such a fun giveaway! My daughter and her classmates would love this gift at her Montessori school.
Our favorite practical life activity is pouring water.
This would be a great donation to my son’s lower elementary classroom. They are in short supply of practical life activities.
My favorite practical life activity was washing the baby in the present-school classes. Everyone enjoyed bathing the babies!
This is an age old perfect idea for my kids that are getting older. I just run a small (mostly family) day care and try to combine family atmosphere with developmental learning. Our favorite “family” everyday (seasonally) activity is we all pitch in growing a small garden and then enjoy all the different ways we can enjoy the food we produce. All the kids pitch in one way or another. From the time they can walk they help dig, plant, water, taste and carry the produce up from the garden. Getting to use the watering can is the favorite of all ages.
Sewing & weaving are essentials for practical life. These activities lead to so many wonderful extensions that everyone uses in everyday life. What a beautiful gift!
My 6.5 year old son has just discovered he loves to knit and create. I think he would love this weaving set! Thank you for this chance!
Hummm, our favorite practical life activity I think would be cooking.
So beautiful. I love teaching my kids to work with their hands.
My favorite practical life work is the pickle slicing work. Cheers and all best, Mary
What a great little loom!!! My favorite practical life activity is grating soap. After the soap powder accumulates, we put a spoonful in a bowl and use a “cha sen”( green tea whisk), and make bubbles, just like we’re making green tea!!!
I like the Dressing Frames. They come in handy when trying to get 30 children ready to go outside to play during the Pennsylvania winter!
My daughter saw this weaving set and would love it!!! I really like the moving alphabet activities where you have a box which has objects inside. Each child picks and object and tries to spell it out with the moveable alphabet. For a child this is exciting and a great thought process behind having a box especially from a child’s point of view questions arise, what could be inside this box, a game full of anticipation and interest.
Looks great! Thanks for the giveaway!
This is wonderful! It would be a great addition to our practical life activities at our school.
I had a loom when I was young and I loved it. I think my 6-9 students would love this activity. My favorite Practical Life activity is knitting and sorting activities.
Table washing is my favorite PL activity.