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: Felt cooking
I’m putting together two busy bags that are very similar here. This is a review for felt “cooking” – assembling felt pieces into a sandwich (Hungry? DS2 wants to offer you a sandwich!) and pieces for a pizza The sandwich had bread, lettuce, a piece of cheese, and what my kids decided was two types …
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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 Bag: Pipe cleaner lacing
This bag has an assortment of different colored pipe cleaners and a handful of felt buttons (shapes with holes in the center). This can be strung together by color, by shape, or by patterns of colors and/or shapes. OK. We’ve tried this one twice, and it has basically fallen flat for each child each time. …
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Busy bag: Pompom sort
This busy bag consists of a bunch of pompoms, a set of plastic tongs, and an ice cube tray. Sounds kind of weird, right? Except ds 2 loved it. When his big brothers tried to help him with some, he exclaimed, “No, dis MY WORK!” And he has played with it several times since. And …
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Busy bags
Remember the post I did on keeping younger kids busy a few weeks ago? One of the options was busy bags. A busy bag is a task for younger kids, all grouped together and ready to be brought out to entertain as needed. I bought a bag of 30 of these here (they currently aren’t …
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