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Busy bag: Baby version – paper recycling

Another busy bag idea (see the more serious busy bag ideas here.) This one is a little tongue-in-cheek, but my 10 month old baby had a blast with our bag of paper recycling. She shredded and ripped and laughed her way through a pretty good amount of our newspaper from the day before, and the …

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Busy Bag: Envelope stuffing

This is a pretty simple busy bag. It is made of felt envelopes sewn at the sides, felt stamps, and laminated paper “letters.” It’s meant to stuff and stamp the envelopes and get them ready to mail. We have tried this several times, and each time, it holds the attention of my 2.5, 5, and …

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Busy bag: How to build an “A”

This isn’t one of the busy bags I bought, but this is something I use for ds5. It’s good practice for forming letters, and he has enjoyed doing it multiple times (though not every day, or even every week) over the last year. The set is something I purchased: a book and 11 foam blocks, …

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Ready-made busy bag: pattern blocks

Here is a ready made “busy bag” that my kids adore. It is just shape and pattern copying, but it it has bright colors and the possibility to do your own work, which my kids enjoyed. They loved this set, and say they would recommend it! 😉 For a younger crowd, here is the beginner …

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Busy bag: button sort

This busy bag is a handful of different colored and different shaped buttons. There were a total of 6 colors and shapes and two plates with three sections each, so it’s good for sorting colors and shapes. Well, maybe not so much sorting if you’re 2. But ds5 sorted a few times before he was …

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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 …

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