Why do your kiddos need a winter busy bag? Brrr! It’s cold outside. And, your preschooler just announced that she’s ready for a day of outdoor snow-filled play. But, she’s still wearing her princess pj’s and is refusing to put on anything other than flip-flops. So, the day out in the freezing cold is canceled….
Velcro Fine Motor Color Sort and Patterning Activity
We love the texture, sound and the look of velcro. It can be a versatile resource for fine motor play. Your little one will need to use their pincer grasp in order to place items onto the velcro and pull them off. For the letter V in our A to Z Fine Motor Play series, we…
Wheels Busy Bag
Although I have girls, they often play with cars, trucks, trains and other toy vehicles. And it’s totally fine! How about your kids? For today I prepared few patterning strips to use inside wheels busy bag for sizing and practicing patterns as a simple math activity. WHAT DO YOU NEED FOR WHEELS BUSY BAG? We…
150+ Tried and Tested Hands-On Activities for Kids to Learn with Play
You know how it’s hard to find that one book which contains ideas for hands-on learning through play for kids, and where ideas are “do-able”, tried and tested by someone you know you can trust? Well, not anymore! We are introducing a brand new book with over 150 ideas for kids of different age, from babies…
Sticky Letters Busy Bag
One of the easiest ways to get toddlers to recognize letters and learn an alphabet is to engage them in learning their own name. For today’s learning activity, we have put together simple name recognition activity for our toddler using alphabet foam stickers. We used it as a busy bag, but it can as easily…
Recycled Stick Puppets
It’s awesome that you can make stick puppets almost from everything! For today’s #junkplay activity, we recycled some of the greeting and birthday cards we had received previous years. This “light” activity for kids is instantly gratifying – they get to play with something they make in only couple minutes and without any money spent…
Weaving Rainbow
Most of the busy bags we have created in the past are really simple to put together. Mostly we use things from around the home and today’s Weaving Rainbow Busy Bag is no different. We use only 2 things for this busy bag that is great for fine motor skill practice for toddlers and preschoolers….
Plant a Heart Garden Busy Bag
Today, we bring you this a sweet little Valentine’s day themed busy bag combining heart and roses. Two of my favorite Valentine’s day items! Plant a Heart Garden busy bag is an awesome practice for fine motor skills and apparently, great for pretend play, proved by my toddler! Another thing we would like to add: this busy bag can be reused…
7 Days of Busy Bags for Toddlers
We are always looking for additional play ideas and today we are presenting you easy to set up 7 days of busy bags! You can use these as described or use it as an inspiration to put up your own busy bags depending on your toddler’s interest and items you can easily require or have…
24 Busy Bags for Christmas with Toddlers
This year I have decided to include simple and fun learning activities during Christmas season with my almost 3 year old toddler. Easiest way to get everything ready in advance and have on hand is to turn these activities into busy bags! Have you already tried busy bags? Some of activities from our list are…