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I am planning on purchasing a few pouring and polishing items for my home atrium. In Moira's 3-5 album, she suggests a pitcher with three jars that you mark lines on. I think she also suggests some polish, a cloth, a sponge and a tray for polishing the chalice, etc.
I'd like to hear what your favorite items are for these activities and where you got them.
Thanks.
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Just a quick thought on the subject of polish...I bought the metal polish from Montessori Services as part of a large order. While it did a fabulous job on a brass bracelet of mine, it couldn't clean my copper-bottom pots or planters when my daughter tried. I thought it just needed more elbow grease so I gave it a go as well. Nope. So we ended up with a neat little science lesson instead as we switched over to the good old-fashioned half-lemon with salt. Works like a charm on copper every time. 
We haven't tried the polish we bought on anything silver...it might work well for that.
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Ooh, good tip on the lemon/salt for copper
Cheryl, what I have been doing so far with our Mass Kit is as the dc are putting the items back on the tray I have them use a soft silver polishing cloth (like the kind you can wrap your good silver in for storing) and just rub out the fingerprints. It seems to be working for them, but I do intend to pick up some of the non-toxic polishing as well.
We did the Mass Presentation last week and put water and juice into the cruets so he could practice pouring into the chalice and washing his hands over the finger bowl. Then he (5 yo) helped me clean everything up afterwards. That was a BIG hit 
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I ordered the special nontoxic silver cream from the Montessori Services catalog... when it came it was Wright's Silver Cream... exactly what I have under my kitchen sink  . well, at least I'm stocked up for awhile.
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Here is feedback from Moira:
"I just checked the brand of polish I have, and it is called Baker's nonequal brass polish. It comes in an 8 oz bottle, and is safe for children to use. It is kind of a white liquid, and is brushed on the surface of the item, then wiped off with a clean cloth. I gave the kids a soft brush to apply it, and some scraps of flannel to wipe it clean agter it dried, and it worked fine. I'm sure other types are available, but that is what I have used in the past.
I bought the product from Montessori Services, and it was recommended by them as the best one for children. I'm guessing any Montessori vendor would probably have a similar suitable product. In a pinch, did you know that you can also polish with toothpaste? I know it works well on silver, but it might do similarly on brass. I actually have a separate polish for silver, and I'm not positive if there is one medium that can work on both metals, but they were fairly inexpensive so I got both kinds."
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In regards to your problem, Tracy. When I took training this summer it was mentioned that more tarnished items might need to be cleaned with stronger polish by the directress or mother. There is a noticeable change for the children to see even with previously polished items, but the exercise is learning and doing, not the finished product.
A similar example is hand washing. It's a practical life exercise, but the purpose is not to clean the hands, but the "doing".
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for the pouring i have used 3 baby food jars - labels off - and marked different heights with a permanent marker.
montessori services is my preferred place for finding pitchers and other containers.
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Here's what I remember from my training:
Try to find a *very* tarnished silver item for the beginning of school. Garage sales are great for this.
Put it out on the tray with silver polish, cloths, etc. Don't say anything about it or mention it. The first child to choose the work gets the "reward" of seeing the biggest difference between unpolished and polished.
Oftentimes, other kids will notice the child who is polishing first and gather around to watch the process.
Other children who do the work later will not see as big a difference, but can focus more on the process, as someone said above.
In toddler classrooms, I have seen a small dollop of Johnson's baby lotion used as polish. Non-irritating, and still gives the child the feel of polishing. I wouldn't recommend toothpaste for a polishing work. It does clean well, but the salient point of the work is for the child to develop a polishing motion, and I don't think toothpaste would work well for that.
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montessori_lori wrote:
| In toddler classrooms, I have seen a small dollop of Johnson's baby lotion used as polish. Non-irritating, and still gives the child the feel of polishing. |
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This is GREAT!! My two yo will LOVE this, thank you, I NEVER would have thought of this 
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