Montessori Activities at Home with Your 18-24 Month Old Child Written By: Colleen Noll We call this the “Dump and Run” stage. You might have a beautiful shelf set for your child with up to six different activities. Don’t be alarmed when your child stands at the shelf, takes an activity out of the basket and dumps it out onto the shelf. Before you can get to the shelf, your child has run off and is now working with another activity altogether. Be patient, soon, your child will stick with one activity. Reset