The busy bag includes 20 preschool-friendly activities to keep your preschooler busy. I imagined that we would use the bag: on a rainy day, to keep Bro quiet during church, on a long car ride, and so on.
Soon after I ordered the bag, I had buyer's remorse. I envisioned this ratty bag showing up at my door with lackluster appeal and mediocre artistry. I could not have been more wrong.
Note: If you have a preschooler in your house then this is the busy bag for you.
Each of the 20 activities is perfect for little Bro: counting activities, letter activities, color activities, lacing activities, sorting activities, pretend activities... and more and more. Each activity comes in its own ziploc bag with easy instructions for mom and dad. Every bag contains all of the items needed for the activity. The lady who put them together even took the time to round of the edges of the papers and laminate the cards that would clearly get lots of use. This is such a sweet set. It is clearly handcrafted and I love that part too.
I went so far as to order a Christmas bag from the same lady because it not only includes Christmas activities but has some "winter" activities as well. I am hoping that this will help get us through some tough days that we are stuck inside the house, hiding from Old Man Winter.
We took our busy bag with us to an evening doctor's appointment.
We were sorting...
and lacing... as we waitied. We had great fun!
The lady who makes these bags also holds a busy-bag swap each year. The idea is that each mom makes 30 sets of one bag and mails them in. When the lady gets all of the sets, then she divides them up and sends them out to the families. Cool huh?
How do you keep your kids occupied at the doctor's office,
while you make dinner, or on a rainy day?
3 comments:
hmmm- have to look into this- I've hear of bust bags, but it helps so much to see it in action!!!
We had to think it up for ourselves.. and had lots of games.. and things like Lincoln Logs and Erector sets.. Didn't haul them around, though.. that was usually books we read to them quietly.. When they were pre schoolers we had the back of the station wagon down so it was flat and they had lots of playthings there and could stretch out and sleep there.. hadn't invented carseats yet!
Love this idea. I am going to make one, and then blog about it :) Thanks for the inspiration!
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