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Busy bags are a beneficial tool/toy that can help with occupying children in a pinch. These are simple ‘bags of toys’ or activities that can be taken on the go, done in your living room, or in a classroom setting. These busy bag ideas are perfect for parents and teachers to provide fun, engaging, easy prep activities for kids that will strengthen skills and enhance development.
One of the skills that can be worked on are fine motor skills. The various activities that can be included in busy books help the muscles of the fingers get stronger, which leads to building future skills such as zipping a zipper, tying shoes or holding a pencil.
Another area busy bags help with is imagination, or creativity. Most of the time, busy bags are done with independent play. These bags encourage children to tap into their own creativity by crafting stories to go along with what they are doing. Sitting still for long periods of time can be boring and create a feeling of being antsy, but busy bags can help!
Reasons You Need A Couple Busy Bags Ready
- Busy Bags Make Waiting Easier. Whether you are in the car, at home or at a doctor’s appointment, busy bags can help make the waiting period go by faster. This brings you some tranquility or allows you to get some work done.
- Encourage self directed play and independence in children.
- Strengthen independent learning in young children and touch on any topic you want to put into the bag. Alphabet, numbers, fine motor, senses, weather, and whatever you’d like.
Busy Bag Ideas For Kids
We have a whole list of individual themes below, but these 100+ Busy Bag Ideas are the greatest ideas! Here are 10 of our other Favorite Busy Bags that we think you’ll like, too. After you check those out, come back and see all of these other fun busy bag themes that your kids will enjoy!
Another great resource is this 10 Ready To Use Items for Busy Bags. If you have any of these 10 items on hand, you have something to use in a busy bag! We also love making busy bags with straws or crazy straws.
- Days Of The Week Puzzle
- Watermelon Seeds Counting
- Search & Find
- DIY Rainbow Clip
- Heart Faces
- Apple Seed Counting
- F is for Felt Flower, Color Words
- Travel Busy Book
- Story Circles
- Lady Bug Dominoes
- Sort and Count Rainbow Puzzle
- Christmas Counting Sticks
- Rudolph The Reindeer
- Christmas Character Matching
- Jingle Bell Abacus
- Gingerbread Man Shape Matching
- Easy Shapes & Patterns
- Counting Caterpillar
- Shapes, Counting & Colors
- Fine Motor P is for Paperclip
- Super Fine Motor
- Tiny Pom Poms
