This is the best place to find the most adorable and entertaining busy bags. They are easy to assemble and the printables are FREE! These learning activities are designed to teach endless skills. My son begs to play these games daily and it entertains him, literally, for hours.I made a bag for each of the activities to keep in the toy room. My son can’t read the words yet so he peeks in all the bags and picks out the one he wants to play first. I use the this. They are small and allow of lots of colors to fit into a little bag. Find all these printables at the bottom of the post!
TO MAKE THE FUN TOTE BAGS: I used a silhouette portrait machine to cut out the words on a heat transfer sheet. Then ironed them to these little tote bags that I got from Oriental Trading (check out their education section for lots of fun products). They turned out so stinkin’ cute. I made a bag for each of the activities to keep in the toy room. My son can’t read the words yet so he peeks in all the bags and picks out the one he wants to play first.
Also, on a side note, if you have kids between the ages of 4-7, I just found this offer for getting two of those fun Highlights Kid’s Books for free (pay shipping and handling).
I designed these games to teach skills for molding shapes of familiar objects that they can visualize and then create. Carrots, chocolate chips, apples on a tree, candles, legs on octopus, sand castle, burgers on a grill, worms, bubbles, pancakes, snowman face, glasses and mustache on a boy. I designed two of the play doh mats on 1 page. Printer friendly and easy to fit in any bag or box.
My son is three and knows all his letters and sounds but when playing this game, he read his VERY FIRST WORD! He picks out his “magic card” he calls it. Then finds the letters that are on the card, puts them in order and sounds out the word. It was so fun to see his little mind working so hard. And he did it! GET THE PRINTABLES HERE: Scrabble Spelling Busy Bag
These cards have pictures of animals. The object of this activity is to match the little animal figures to the card. Get the free printables here.
Go shopping for some fresh fruit. This game comes with 5 different grocery lists and a shopping cart. Pick and list and put the correct amount of fruit into the basket. My boy loves to pretend to eat them after he finishes and spreads them out again on the table ready for another round. This game teaches number recognition and counting. Again, I ask endless questions about colors, shapes, size, numbers, total number of fruit. You can find all of the cute little fruit here and the FREE PRINTABLES here: Grocery Shopping Busy Bag.
Color sorting bowls and animals are really fun. Sometimes I have him sort all the animals in the correct colored bowls and sometimes I will choose certain animals to go in each bowl. For example: Please sort the orange pigs and the blue bunnies in their matching bowl. When the animals are all mixed up on the table this gives a great challenge. Also there is a printable for this color sorting game. The idea is to match the size of colored animal to the dots in the paper strip. It is really fun. Even with out a paper you can line up a pattern and have your child duplicate it. The small dots represent small animals and the large dots for the larger animals. There are endless possibilities for entertainment and learning with these colored animals. Get the printable here: Color Sorting Busy Bag Printables
These adorable hamburgers are just tpo fun and cute for words. With this game, first start by picking out a pattern strip. Then, beginning from the bottom bun of the burger, build up, add each of the condiments and top with the other hamburger bun. They are really fun. Get the printables here: Build a Burger Busy Bag Printables
These tracing games are fantastic learning activities for kids. Some ideas of questions to ask could be: Which number is the 2? Which letters are in your name? Which shape looks like an egg? I laminate all of my activities with the laminator found here. Get the printables here: Tracing Games Busy Bag
Sort these adorable fruits and veggies to their correct crate. Good luck teaching just where that yummy tomato belongs! Haha! Get the printables here: Farmer’s Market Busy Bag Printables
If you plan on putting together most of these busy bags, I suggest getting the Learning Resources Super Sorting Set
I hope you and your child absolutely love these busy bag learning games! Make sure you pin this post for later, and share them with your friends and family!
Chelsey
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Problem with the link for the hamburger pattern. It links to the playdoh mats and the picture links to Amazon.
I clicked the title above the picture and got to the right page.
These are incredible! Thank you so much! I ran out of ink after printing the play dough set but am excited to finish printing and laminating these!
I would love to download the Hamburger game, but it sends you to the play dough mats page. Thanks so much for sharing!
click on the part that says BUILD A BURGER
I’m sorry I meant ORDER A BURGER
Thanks so much!
Great resources!!! Do you have the hamburger link?
click under the photo of it where it says ORDER A BURGER
Thank you so much for this incredible resource!
I’m very, very, very happy with these resources. I just can’t stop printing. I’m super excited to play with my 2-year old. I only came across it recently.
These are amazing! Would you sell these busy bags?
How did you make your bags to contain the different activities? Those are darling!
And where did you get your animals for your animal matching game?
I might have missed it but what size bag did you use?
I printed some of your sheets and covered the top with clear contact paper since i already had some. I took them to my grandkids’ house this morning. My three-year old grandson was delighted with the play doh sheets! I’m going to blog about it and give your blog address.
i love it sooo mmuucchhh…thanks
Love all these ideas! Thank you. I don’t know if I missed it somewhere but how do you laminate your papers?
These are all too adorable and so much fun! I have printed and laminated them ALL and my 2 year old loves them! They keep her busy mind occupied! I noticed in the video clip that there were “boat dock” and “parking lot” sheets. Are those available as well? Thanks again for sharing! I love you and your blog for making my life a little easier during the day and while at church or in the car.
Did you just use heat transfer vinyl for your bags? And are they basic craft bags?