Tag: busy bags

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: 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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Keeping younger kids busy

We allĀ  have times we need to keep younger children busy independently – while you work or homeschool, or simply take a break from the court jester life. How do you do it? There are tons of ways to direct kids when they need some inspiration. Really, it’s just limited by your creativity, patience, and …

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