Based on the key Montessori principle that children learn best through active experience, Teach Me to Do It Myself contains simple activities through which children develop skills. These skill areas include sensory perceptions, body coordination, spoken language, understanding of numbers, and physical movement. Activities include: sewing related activities, learning to cut with scissors, color learning and matching game, learning musical scales through activities, making words with alphabet tiles, learning to sort through the sense of touch.

This book is filled with Montessori themed activities and instructions for overseeing children as they perform an assortment of learning activities. Most of these activities will seem simple to parents, because once mastered, adults perform them easily. However, toddlers experience a sense of accomplishment and self-worth when they learn to perform them independently.