Shape Button Snake-- Great for Hand/Eye Cordination!

 

This a fun and very simple busy bag activity that I put together for my little one. A busy bag, is pretty much exactly like it sounds,  an activity in a bag that will keep a child busy when need be. Some busy bags are educational, others are just fun. Think fun busy work in a bag! My kids have well over 100 busy bags, I keep most of them away, until we need them. I have a huge tote bag full of busy bags in my car for when we go out to eat or have a doctor's appointment. They really come in handy! I even have some that I keep for traveling and long car rides.  This shape button snake is great to help with hand/eye coordination, learning shapes, color recognition, patterning, and learning the basics of buttoning. This busy bag does not cost much to make, it can be made with scraps that you have on hand or you can pick up the items from a craft or dollar store.

Making this busy bag does require a tiny bit of simple sewing, you have to sew a button on to a piece of ribbon and sew the other end of the ribbon to a piece of felt. The rest is simple, just cut shapes out of felt and cut a small opening in the middle of each shape for the button to go through.

 

 

Give your child the ribbon snake and have them make the snake eat through each shape.

 

 

This activity could easily go along with The Very Hungry Caterpillar too!

 

While your child plays with this, you can teach them the different colors and the different shapes.

Older children could practice making a pattern with the shapes or the colors as they put them on. 

This is a fun and easy way to learn, don't you think?

Pick Up the Worms-- A Fun and Easy To Make Busy Bag!

 

This is a really simple busy bag to make and the kids love it! All you need is a clothespin, a small piece of green felt, and some pipe cleaners.  The green felt is your grass, the pipe cleaners are your worms, and the clothespin is your bird.  The kids use the bird to collect all of the worms. You can even use this to practice color recognition and simple counting by asking your child to pick up 2 blue worms and 1 red worm.

 

 

Five Little Cookies in the Bakery Shop

I made a felt story to use on our felt board to go along with upcoming baking activities that I have planned. I found two rhymes/songs that I can use with them, Five Little Cookies in the Bakery Shop and Five Little Cookies. I cut out 5 circles and decorated them with icing (glitter glue), which I color coded to go with the bottom song. 

 

 

Five Little Cookies in the Bakery Shop

Five little cookies in the bakery shop
Five little cookies with sugar on top
Along came a man with a penny in his hand
Click, clock, click, clock, click, clock, click, clock
He took one cookie and away he ran

Four little cookies in the bakery shop
Four little cookies with sugar on top
Along came a man with a penny in his hand
Click, clock, click, clock, click, clock, click, clock
He took one cookie and away he ran

Three little cookies in the bakery shop
Three little cookies with sugar on top
Along came a man with a penny in his hand
Click, clock, click, clock, click, clock, click, clock
He took one cookie and away he ran

Two little cookies in the bakery shop
Two little cookies with sugar on top
Along came a man with a penny in his hand
Click, clock, click, clock, click, clock, click, clock
He took one cookie and away he ran

One little cookie in the bakery shop
One little cookie with sugar on top
Along came a man with a penny in his hand
Click, clock, click, clock, click, clock, click, clock
He took one cookie and away he ran

But we’re not done yet:
No little cookies in the bakery shop.
No little cookies with sugar on top.
Along came a man with a penny in his hand.
Click, clock, click, clock, click, clock, click, clock
He took one look
And away he ran

I color coordinated the icing to go along with this one:

Five Little Cookies

Five little cookies with frosting galore,
Mommy ate the white one, then there were four.

Four little cookies, two and two you see,
Daddy ate the pink one, then there were three.

Three little cookies, but before I knew,
My sister ate the blue one, then there were two.

Two little cookies, oh, what fun!
My brother ate the green one, then there was one.

One little cookie, watch me run!
I ate the red one, then there were none!