The idea of Busy Bags is to include some simple but engaging activities that will fit into a ziplock bag or something similiar. You can take them with your while travelling, or present your child with them at home. These are mess free activities that kids would be able to do independently.
Today I’m featuring busy bag ideas from The Connection We Share, and some other great Kid bloggers too! All the activities I’ve chosen here will help your child to focus on the skill of matching. They can work on their shapes, colours, and letters with plenty of fine motor practise too.
Skills like matching, or spot the difference, are all great pre-reading skills that will help your little one have a solid foundation from which they can move on to the next stage of recognising letters and words.
Click through to check out each idea, many of them also come with printables which are free to print and use.
Transport Silhouette Matching Game and Busy Bag Ideas
Colour and Pattern Matching Game
Printable Flower Matching Game
Clothes Pin Letter Match Busy Bag
Printable Pattern Matching Game from Kids Activities Blog
If you have more ideas for busy bag activities, let me know in the comments or share your links and pictures over on my Facebook page.Â
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Anna Marikar, mum of four and seasoned blogger, has spent over a decade sharing her parenting journey and passion for kid-friendly crafts and free printables.
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Excellent choices there! Will have a look at them now!
Great ideas for rainy days especially! Thanks for sharing!
I love how all these ideas are so easy to put together! Just print, cut and put in a bag! Thank you for including us!
Love all of these ideas Anna! We love using busy bags when we’re stuck in the waiting room at the doctor’s office or somewhere similar so these will come in handy really soon! Thanks for putting this list together 🙂
great post, thanks for sharing
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We love busy bags! You’ve got some great ideas here. Thank you for including our paint chip busy bags!
These are all awesome busy bags!! Great post. Thanks for including us 🙂
Fun list of ideas! Thanks so much for including my leaf matching post. 🙂 Have a wonderful day!