With spring coming soon, we decided to put together a comprehensive resource with spring busy bags. You will find here spring busy bags on themes like: flowers, bugs, weather (rain) and rainbow. Hope you and your kids will enjoy using these busy bags!
Why We Recommend Preparing Busy Bags for Your Toddlers and Preschoolers?
Busy bags are a wonderful activity to create for your toddler while you are on the road, at a coffee date or need a few minutes to do some work or housework. Busy bags can be taken anywhere and used as a backup toy or emergency quiet time activity. Get creative and create a few that you can take out when you need them in a hurry!
Basic Supplies to Have on Hand for Busy Bags
Here are few items you might need to create your own busy bags:
- zip lock bags
- laminator for printable busy bags
- laminator sheets for printable busy bags
Spring Busy Bags
We selected a variety of spring themed busy bags with focus on:
- flowers
- rainbow
- rain
- bugs (ladybugs, butterflies, etc.)
- birds
- other
Felt Heart Garden
Make a beautiful felt heart garden. This is a wonderful activity to add to spring or around Mother’s and Valentine’s day. Created solely from felt sheets, it’s perfect as a quiet time activity. Details at: Powerful Mothering
Flower fine motor busy bag will keep your toddler busy with clothespins. Awesome activity for fine motor skill practice!
Flower Button Snake Spring Activity
Make a flower button snake Spring activity. This busy bag is similar to our heart button snake! It aims to help kids practice their fine motor skill and prepare them to button and unbutton their own clothes. Details at: LalyMom
Flower Shape Puzzles
Flower shape puzzles make for a fun busy bag. You will need few foam sheets to make them, although you can use paper or cardboard as well. This busy bag is perfect for the youngest who can work on piecing together 2 – 4 piece puzzles. Details at: LalyMom
Dew Drop Flowers
Practice pincer grip building these pretty dew drop flowers. We love how they used marbles as pretend play dew drops! This simple to prepare busy bag will sneak in some learning without kids even realizing it! Details at: LalyMom
Flower Counting Cards
Print these gorgeous flower counting cards for your busy bag. They provide a free printable you can download and print. Instant busy bag can be made in minutes! Perfect for both home and classroom setting. Details at: Wildflower Ramblings
Spring Busy Bag Sheets
Match colors with Spring matching busy bag sheets. You will need a laminator to make this flower busy bag. As a bonus, kids get to work on counting skills as they count the number on beads connecting flower heads. Details at: Teach Me Mommy
Plant the Color Flower Busy Bag
Plant the color flower as child matches the color of the flower drawn on each of the popsicle sticks with the color of the pot. Pots are made of felt sheets in this busy bag. You can even ask child to draw their flowers on the popsicle sticks beforehand. Details at: Around the Mother’s Knee
Flower Craft Stick Puzzles
Create a Spring flower popsicle stick puzzle for your toddler’s busy bag. You can either draw or print and glue a picture of a flower on top. You can also reuse child’s flower drawing or painting to make this lovely and cheap puzzle. Details at: Motherhood on a Dime
Flower life cycle busy bag
Felt spring busy bag is easy to create with felt scraps and leftovers. As one of the ways to use this felt flower busy bag, kids get to learn about flower’s life cycle. Details at: Best Toys 4 Toddlers
Plant a Heart Garden Busy Bag
We love those tiny little decorative roses! Plant a flower garden busy bag with mini flowers is perfect for practicing your child’s fine motor skills. It is tricky for little fingers to grasp and push flower’s fragile stems. But it also helps them with hand control and coordination. Details at: Best Toys 4 Toddlers
Fun Bottle Top Addition Game
Learn numbers and build flowers with bottle caps. While you are setting aside bottle caps, you can quickly add 5 additional busy bags with bottle caps! Of course, we urge you to save bottle caps because they can become cheap learning manipulatives. Details at: Learn with Play at Home
Flower Alphabet Match
Use foam flower shapes (or paper) for alphabet matching busy bag. You will need a pack of clothespins to prepare this busy bag. Working with clothespins provide kids with much needed fine motor skill practice. Details at: Learn Play Imagine
Flower Alphabet Match Printable
If you prefer printable busy bags, these flower alphabet matching cards will be just right. You can download and print flower cards as a free printable. If you plan to use them again, we suggest laminating them. Details at: Playdough to Plato
Matching Color Flower
Match colors of pegs to flowers with this spring busy bag. After you print provided free printable, kids get to match clothespins by color to flowers and buttons. It makes busy bag easy to prepare in advance and pull out when needed. Details at: Learning4Kids
Rainy Day Clip Cards
For a spring rainy day make this clip card busy bag with clothes pegs. These clip cards are filled with puffy clouds, weatherproof boots and oversized umbrellas, perfect for rainy season. They are provided as a free printable to download and print. Details at: Playdough to Plato
Rainy Day Math Mat
On a rainy Spring day make a Math mat and practice counting. Perfect for toddlers and preschoolers, this single page counting cloud printable can be downloaded as freebie and laminated for frequent use. Details at: Coffee Cups and Crayons
Counting Kites Fine Motor Play
When it comes to spring, we can’t forget flying kites! Spring is rainy and windy, making it a perfect season for kites! Counting kites activity is inspired by real kites and makes a good workout for little fingers. Details at: Best Toys 4 Toddlers
Make simple rainbow color matching busy bag with buttons and felt pieces (or paper).
Rainbow Color Word Matching
For kids who are working on their sight words, you can make word matching busy bag. Since it’s inspired by rainbow, it will surely bring lots of fun along with fine motor practice! After all, everyone loves rainbows! Details at: Fantastic Fun and Learning
Rainbow Lacing Busy Bag
Lacing ribbon is yet another way to work on fine motor skills and with this busy bag, kids get to lace a rainbow! Finished work looks a bit like a piece of art worth hanging on the wall, don’t you think? Details at: Coffee Cups and Crayons
Fruit Loop Rainbow Craft
Grab a bag of colorful fruit loops for this simple rainbow busy bag! Although it looks super simple, it really depends on how old is the child who is doing this activity. For most toddlers, it will surely provide lots of effort working on hand-eye coordination and pincer grasp to put this rainbow together. Details at: Housing a Forest
Rainbow Math Game
Roll, count and build a rainbow using fruit loops (you can use buttons or pom poms or any other type of manipulative if you don’t have fruit loops). This printable activity can even be played as a game with multiple children – make it a contest who will be the first to build a rainbow! Details at: Housing a Forest
Build a Rainbow Activity
Never enough activities with rainbow! Building a rainbow with pony beads with let kids work on their fine motor skills. It is not simple for little finger to grasp and manipulate those tiny pony beads! Details at: School Time Snippets
Activities with fuzzy pom poms are always a favorite around here and we don’t doubt your kids will love making a rainbow with them (with free printable)!
Magnetic Shape Sticks Busy Bag
Do you have some popsicle sticks laying in your recycle bin? You will need them for this activity, along with some paint and magnets! Magnetic rainbow sticks allow kids to learn about shapes in fun and playful way. Details at: The Chaos and the Clutter
Rainbow Color Busy Bag
Pasta and egg carton are main parts of this simple rainbow sorting busy bag. So, if you have an egg carton in your recycle bin to reuse for this activity, with a bit of paint, you are ready to go! Details at: Coffee Cups and Crayons
Rainbow color sorting busy bag
Popsicle sticks are one of our favorite items for play. They are so versatile! And we love how they are used in this rainbow pockets busy bag. Making pockets from felt and sticking sticks in matching colors will provide another set of fine motor practice for your toddler and preschooler. Details at: Learning and Exploring Through Play
Printable Rainbow Number Puzzles for Preschoolers
Learn to count with these lovely rainbow puzzles. Download free printable, print and cut rainbows. Invite kids to count the dots on the clouds and match with a second part of rainbow with a number. Easy, fun and quick set up! Details at: From ABCs to ATCs
Rainbow Fine Motor Busy Bag
This rainbow busy bag is a perfect workout for little fingers. With few items, you get to prepare such a lovely learning tool for little one! Details at: In the Playroom
Explore light with rainbow prism busy bag.
Make a felt rainbow busy bag kids can use over and over again to build a rainbow.
Another way to make a rainbow and work on fine motor skills – clip a rainbow!
Learn to count with this cute ladybug domino set (with free printable).
A butterfly counting activity is a fun way to learn to count.
Ladybugs are fun for practicing counting in this busy bag.
Another way to work on counting is with felt ladybug busy bag.
Butterfly counting busy bag makes a wonderful counting game.
Print bug shadow matching game and turn it into a busy bag activity (with free printable)!
Toddlers and preschoolers will enjoy building their own caterpillars after reading The Hungry Caterpillar.
Work on letter recognition with butterflies (with free printable).
Match colored bunny tails in this cute busy bag.
Print any of these 6 Spring playdough mats (with free printable).
Count sheep with this adorable spring lamb busy bag.
Enjoy a number of different activities that promote math skills with ladybugs!
Fill your busy bag with goodies for a Spring fairy theme.
If your toddler enjoys nursery rhymes, they will adore Little Bo Beep color matching activity (free printable).
Egg cartons convert into cute Spring robins ready to be fed.
Grow My Garden busy bag is a cute creative activity.
Work on patterns with spring themed patterning cards (with free printable).
Busy bags are such a cute way to keep your toddler entertained while you’re out and about.
What are your favorite Spring-themed busy bag ideas? We’d love to hear yours.
More Busy Bags?
Similar to this collection, we gathered all of the best Easter busy bags featuring Easter eggs and adorable bunnies. For Valentine’s day busy bags, we have a bunch of hearts covering variety of skills, from fine motor skills to vocabulary.
Spring Activity Ideas to Try Next
For toddlers, you can set up a spring sensory bin or create a process art which can then be used for accordion spring wreath! Your preschooler can recycle egg cartons to create flowers or you can print out our free spring printable pack to add a bit of learning.
What a fun list! Love that caterpillar 🙂