Sponge Building Blocks Busy Bag
Most children love building towers or structures with building blocks, but taking them a set of blocks out to a restaurant or on plane can be impractical. So why not switch the blocks? Instead of wooden ones,...
Dot 2 Dot Printable Downloads
As the summer holidays are approaching I am beginning to get together some new activities and busy bags, as I know once the holidays start I wont have any spare time to make them. The first one on my list was t...
A DIY Magnetic Geometric Shapes Activity for Kids
As I was preparing everything for an upcoming holiday I started to take out some of our busy bags that we might need. It was then I decided that, although we have nice collection of busy bags, it was time to ad...
Counting with Clips Busy Bag
This little busy bag is a fun activity to help with counting, colour matching and fine motor skills for young children.
You will need:
Mini Craft Pegs
Paint
Paint Brush
5 to 10 Popsicle sticks
Pe...
Velcro Building Popsicles
Taking things like Lego on a journey can be such a pain as those little pieces are so easily dropped and lost. I can't count the number of times of had to search the floor of an aircraft/ train/ restaurant for ...
Fun Kids’ Craft with Paperclips
The Paperclip Colour Sorting Busy Bag
This busy bag is aimed at younger children, but older children can still get a kick out of playing with it.
What you will need:
Different coloured paper
Coloure...
Popsicle Picture Puzzle
I have already done a popsicle puzzle for phonics and numbers as part of a busy bag, but for this one I stuck to creating pictures puzzles (this can easily be added to a busy bag) for my charges to solve.
Fo...
Practice Hand Control with This Fun Animal Lacing Busy Bag
On Pinterest I found this massive following of these “busy bags”. The concept is not a new one, and is something that I have done naturally (as will most of you) since I started looking after children. The p...
