Busy bags: AaBbCc spoons

Yay for keeping kids entertained – and learning! (Check out other busy bag ideas here.)

This busy bag is something that is really easy to make–you simply need two colors of permanent markers and 2 sets of 26 different colored plastic spoons. One set of spoons should have the uppercase letters from A-Z written near the top of the spoon and the other the lowercase letters from a-z written near the bottom (of the bowl of the spoon).

The kiddo instructions are to lay out the letters from a-z, matching each uppercase letter with its lowercase match.

Ds7 particularly enjoyed this. DS5 is working on the letters right now, so this is fun for him, too. But it’s a little (OK, a lot) ahead of DS2. For now. 😉 Wouldn’t this be a good Hebrew letter activity for older kids with the script and print letters? Or how about fractions and decimal matching?

You could also use some or all of the spoons turned upside down as a matching memory game. Or spell out words with correct capitalization. These spoons are a surprising amount of (educational – shh!) fun!

And everyone enjoyed the cleanup. 😉

***This post is getting a lot of hits from Pinterest. Please wander around and let me know what you think! You can find a bunch of busy bag ideas (with more to come!) and much more here. Or follow my busy bags board for more cool ways to occupy your kiddos of all ages. (Well, I mostly have things for kids under about 8 or 10. But whatever works for you!)

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    • Erin on August 7, 2012 at 10:24 pm

    I’m going to use this for middle school math. Fractions and decimals on the spoons to match and then put them in order!

      • Amital on August 8, 2012 at 9:25 am
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      Good idea!

    • Ali on October 4, 2012 at 8:54 am

    Wow! I love this idea! There are many “busy bag” or “quiet bag” ideas that I’ve seen on pinterest that take a lot of time, effort, or craft supplies that I just don’t have (or involve small beads/pieces that I don’t want floating around our house with a crawling baby). But this is perfect. I can easily find spoons for cheap, and it takes only a second to write on them.
    I am seriously amazed as to how genius this is!!!
    Thank you for sharing!!

  1. I love your post on busy bags, I have made a bunch for my own kids and they are addicted! I did a roundup of bags we have made on my blog and linked to your tutorial, you can check it out here: http://babesindeutschland.com/ Thanks for the inspiration!

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    • Wendy Kalman on June 11, 2015 at 9:53 pm

    Will be using these to teach Hebrew, both print v script and for learning nikud, the vowels. Thank you!

      • Amital on June 12, 2015 at 2:43 am
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      Great! I was thinking about adding in the final / sofit letters as well.

    • Mihaela Echols on June 8, 2016 at 1:23 pm

    SO I work at a clinic for children with autism and I tried this. My client loved this! Because of this pin on pinterest they now love their ABC’s

      • Amital on June 8, 2016 at 5:01 pm
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      I’m so glad!

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