I was introduced to this term – Busy Bag Exchange – via a meetup and thought the idea is brilliant.
Basically, a busy bag is a simple, fun and age appropriate activity that will keep your child engaged for a while. You can throw one in your bag to take out at a restaurant, on an airplane, use it at home or somewhere else when you need some time to get something done! This, this and this are cool examples.
In an exchange, each parent chooses a busy bag to work on and give to all the other parents at the exchange. During the exchange they swap bags and each gets to leave with a variety of activities for his/her toddler!
[I’m listing the various activity ideas and hopefully I’ll be able to work on some in preparation for Faith’s homeschooling activities.
- Texture cards
- Pipe cleaner
- No sew fishing game
- Beads into a water bottle
- Velcro shapes sticks
- Pom Pom stuff it in
- Button Snake
- Moon sand
- Pool Noodle Stringing
- Magnetic poms poms
- Lacing cards
- Pasta sort
- Colour-matching wheels
- Playdough mats
Oh what busy and fun days ahead!
