Montessori Cooking® Holds Spring School at Wakayama City Aitoku Kindergarten!
Montessori Cooking® held a spring school at Wakayama City Aitoku Kindergarten, implementing Montessori education where children learn independence through real cooking experiences. Representative Mayuko Takahashi, drawing from her experience as a single mother, advocates for cooking education that can be practiced at home without expensive tools, aiming for nationwide expansion and increased instructors.
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Montessori Cooking®, operated by Mayuko Takahashi, who works as a collaborator for the social business community "Waxel" (sponsored by Yoshihiro Shimamura, General Producer: Tomohiro Sumitani), held a spring school at Wakayama City Aitoku Kindergarten on Friday, March 27, 2026, and Friday, April 3, 2026.
What is Montessori Cooking®?
It started with the aim of guiding both adults and children towards independence by providing an educational environment, in the form of cooking classes, by mothers who want to work while raising children, replacing mothers who work outside. In these classes, children gain real-life experiences instead of just pretend play, using cooking as a tool through daily meals.
With the concept of "Montessori Cooking® for both children and adults," the goal is to foster self-esteem, self-efficacy, and self-worth through experiencing Montessori Cooking.
Can be done anywhere! Made with what's available!
If there's no kitchen, no tools, no ingredients,
The selling point is that there's no "it must be this way."
Both adults and children think for themselves and act.
We value the idea that "nothing exists! everything exists!"
Montessori Cooking® Activity Achievements
Montessori Cooking® has been introduced in kindergartens, daycare centers, and developmental support facilities nationwide. We continue to create environments where mothers can work with their children.
Comment from Mayuko Takahashi, Representative of Montessori Cooking®:
Montessori Cooking is an educational environment disguised as a cooking class, based on Montessori education. As a representative, having experienced being a single mother, I couldn't afford expensive Montessori teaching aids. Instead, I established content in 2020 that put Montessori education into practice in the kitchen.
Theきっかけ (trigger) for me learning about Montessori education was when my eldest daughter developed tic disorder.
At that time, there was little information and no smartphones, but I read Maria Montessori's books at the library and was able to understand children. It's not about special circumstances; it's possible to enrich parenting through daily life. We also run the irodorimethod Parent-Child Toddler Class in Kansai, which focuses on Montessori education that can be done without teaching aids.
Comment from Shoko Sugita, Instructor in charge of Montessori Cooking®:
We made 'Pumpkin and Matcha Steamed Cakes' and 'Strawberry Parfaits.'
In group classes, roles are divided, and everyone cooks for everyone.
Crushing pumpkins, cracking eggs, cutting strawberries, crushing crackers... These are all tasks full of sensitive period experiences, satisfying the senses.
Seeing the dough change color into pumpkin and matcha, steam rising from the pan, and water dripping from strained yogurt—many discoveries brought sparkling expressions!
Eating the dishes made entirely by the children themselves was also a delightful time.
We hope to hold a summer school during the summer vacation.
I look forward to cooking with you all again!
Thank you for participating in the spring school this time.
Future Outlook for Montessori Cooking®
To deliver Montessori Cooking® to all children in all 47 prefectures, regardless of whether they are typically developing or have disabilities, we will actively work towards increasing the number of instructors nationwide.
Additionally, in collaboration with the Ohirune Art Association, we have launched the Vegetable Stamp Ambassador Training Course supervised by Montessori Cooking®. We want to enrich the parenting of mothers who hesitate to become cooking teachers, allowing them to make the most of their current child-rearing period. This casual qualification helps create memories that enrich parenting with vegetable stamps, combined with the real experiences necessary for early childhood, provided with an Ohirune Art kit—"Moms can do it!"
We hope to create an environment where even babies have opportunities to interact with real vegetables, not missing the sensitive period of sensory development in Montessori education. This also connects to work where mothers can participate in events with their children, so please challenge yourself to something new!
■ Social Business Community "Waxel"
A social business community that continuously inspires people through collaboration.
We continue to create a community where people who learn, challenge, grow, and achieve continuously gather. By collaborating with celebrities, business owners, and creators active in various fields, we undertake various initiatives and content production.
Waxel's Initiatives:
Program distribution on YouTube, etc. / Online lectures / Publishing production / Project creation / Column, dialogue, interview article production / News dissemination / Casting for various events
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What is Montessori Cooking®?
It started with the aim of guiding both adults and children towards independence by providing an educational environment, in the form of cooking classes, by mothers who want to work while raising children, replacing mothers who work outside. In these classes, children gain real-life experiences instead of just pretend play, using cooking as a tool through daily meals.
With the concept of "Montessori Cooking® for both children and adults," the goal is to foster self-esteem, self-efficacy, and self-worth through experiencing Montessori Cooking.
Can be done anywhere! Made with what's available!
If there's no kitchen, no tools, no ingredients,
The selling point is that there's no "it must be this way."
Both adults and children think for themselves and act.
We value the idea that "nothing exists! everything exists!"
Montessori Cooking® Activity Achievements
Montessori Cooking® has been introduced in kindergartens, daycare centers, and developmental support facilities nationwide. We continue to create environments where mothers can work with their children.
Comment from Mayuko Takahashi, Representative of Montessori Cooking®:
Montessori Cooking is an educational environment disguised as a cooking class, based on Montessori education. As a representative, having experienced being a single mother, I couldn't afford expensive Montessori teaching aids. Instead, I established content in 2020 that put Montessori education into practice in the kitchen.
Theきっかけ (trigger) for me learning about Montessori education was when my eldest daughter developed tic disorder.
At that time, there was little information and no smartphones, but I read Maria Montessori's books at the library and was able to understand children. It's not about special circumstances; it's possible to enrich parenting through daily life. We also run the irodorimethod Parent-Child Toddler Class in Kansai, which focuses on Montessori education that can be done without teaching aids.
Comment from Shoko Sugita, Instructor in charge of Montessori Cooking®:
We made 'Pumpkin and Matcha Steamed Cakes' and 'Strawberry Parfaits.'
In group classes, roles are divided, and everyone cooks for everyone.
Crushing pumpkins, cracking eggs, cutting strawberries, crushing crackers... These are all tasks full of sensitive period experiences, satisfying the senses.
Seeing the dough change color into pumpkin and matcha, steam rising from the pan, and water dripping from strained yogurt—many discoveries brought sparkling expressions!
Eating the dishes made entirely by the children themselves was also a delightful time.
We hope to hold a summer school during the summer vacation.
I look forward to cooking with you all again!
Thank you for participating in the spring school this time.
Future Outlook for Montessori Cooking®
To deliver Montessori Cooking® to all children in all 47 prefectures, regardless of whether they are typically developing or have disabilities, we will actively work towards increasing the number of instructors nationwide.
Additionally, in collaboration with the Ohirune Art Association, we have launched the Vegetable Stamp Ambassador Training Course supervised by Montessori Cooking®. We want to enrich the parenting of mothers who hesitate to become cooking teachers, allowing them to make the most of their current child-rearing period. This casual qualification helps create memories that enrich parenting with vegetable stamps, combined with the real experiences necessary for early childhood, provided with an Ohirune Art kit—"Moms can do it!"
We hope to create an environment where even babies have opportunities to interact with real vegetables, not missing the sensitive period of sensory development in Montessori education. This also connects to work where mothers can participate in events with their children, so please challenge yourself to something new!
■ Social Business Community "Waxel"
A social business community that continuously inspires people through collaboration.
We continue to create a community where people who learn, challenge, grow, and achieve continuously gather. By collaborating with celebrities, business owners, and creators active in various fields, we undertake various initiatives and content production.
Waxel's Initiatives:
Program distribution on YouTube, etc. / Online lectures / Publishing production / Project creation / Column, dialogue, interview article production / News dissemination / Casting for various events
Past Keywords: (empty)