tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7659102846807072272024-03-13T15:00:29.809-07:00Ten Little Busy-Bags!Jewels!http://www.blogger.com/profile/11953240674578070058noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-765910284680707227.post-569217790702511042012-12-13T13:42:00.001-08:002012-12-13T13:59:59.687-08:00Group G - Toddler Busy Bags!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We decided to reduce the group size, to ensure that everyone could attend the swap. People were unable to make the bigger group swaps and it meant a lot of transporting, meeting and sharing out of missed bags! So our trial of a smaller group means 5 Busy Bags in each swap!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a fabulous and well-received activity. My little boy didn't want to get anything else out of his busy bag for a while, and keeps returning to this, though for some reason, mini tractor tyres have to go in the green section, not the black one?! :) We have also added other household objects and bits of toys to vary the activity even further! This activity is great for pre-verbal colour identification and matching, fine motor skill development including pincer-grip and hand eye coordination. Much loved in this house! By Laura of Busy Bags!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Decorate your own finger puppets, with mini clothes, pompoms, feathers and all-sorts! Another great activity that leads into a different form of creative play (puppet theatre?). This activity supports the development of planning, spatial arrangement, dextreity and fine motor control. By Chris of Busy Bags!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> lolly-pop sticks with velcro pieces glued on the ends! Create endless shapes, long lines, houses, whole worlds from the sticks, as well as colour-coded creations. This kept my little one, and his dad (!) amused for ages when we had a delayed food situation!!! It's so small and simple to carry around that its fast becoming tucked into my bag wherever we go! By Sara of Busy Bags!</span></div>
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This is a simple 'paint-it' activity. The fun part of this (apart from making and wearing the masks) is that I tried to make it totally portable! The paintbrush is in there, the little paint pots... the only thing you 'could' add would be a glass of water, but even that isn't needed! Spread out your paper, pop the lids, and paint away! Once they are dry, use the paper clips to attach lolly-stick handles to the masks. This activity supports the development of artistic skill, dexterity and design! By Jewels of Busy Bags!</div>
</span>Jewels!http://www.blogger.com/profile/11953240674578070058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-765910284680707227.post-21388359984303727262012-12-13T13:12:00.000-08:002012-12-13T14:35:31.008-08:00Group F- Toddler Busy Bags!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is our last 10-bag swap! With Christmas around the corner, we agreed to meet and swap in groups of five, just to make things more do-able, particularly when making your 10 busy bags! Four of the Ten of us couldn't make it to the swap, and we were all up late the night before; stressing over facebook about getting everything done! I think that the results are beautiful though, and for a mid November swap, we did very well!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a quirky take on the 'fuzzy-felt' idea of yester-year! ;) You build your own snowflake by placing felt shapes onto a felt board. There are some great concepts built into this activity, including tessellation, symmetry, visual pattern building, as well as the development of fine-motor skill, planning, visual acuity and naming and awareness of shape. By Elly of Busy Bags!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This matching game has been a hit for us; really simple but great for finding pairs, and teaching words such as 'pair, same, different, other, another" etc. I'm sure that with a bit of modeling from Mama and Papa, the game element, from turning them face-down will make these last even longer! Great for memory skills, visual discrimination, and cementing the concept of 'two, or pairs'. By Elly of Busy Bags!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A festive take on arranging shapes. After playing with ours a few times, we decided that it would be nice to stick it all down and make a picture; plus my 2.5 year old discovered that some of the shapes were stickers, and there was no stopping him! :) By Lauren of Busy Bags!</span><br />
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<br />Jewels!http://www.blogger.com/profile/11953240674578070058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-765910284680707227.post-41815530064349395912012-10-23T07:17:00.003-07:002012-11-14T04:03:09.298-08:00Group B - Toddler Busy Bags!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We've finally been playing with our second lot of Busy Bags! Here are the photos of what we have played with so far! Are there are no limits to our creativity?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These were a big hit for us! This was created using a frame, covered in sticky-backed plastic to which</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the coloured see-through shapes and black borders were positioned! Once complete, the stained glass window could be put on a real window for the light to shine through! See through film was used to avoid shapes folding up when being stuck on. By EmmaT of Busy Bags!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was a creative activity based around making faces. The card gave suggestions as to what to make, such as an 'angry face', an 'alien face'. The possibilities are endless! By Karla of Busy Bags!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was all about threading string through naturally dyed pasta tubes of different sizes. Hand sanitizer 'fixed' the colours without making the pasta soggy! (<a href="http://www.alittledelightful.com/2011/07/colour-me-happy-how-to-dye-pasta.html" target="_blank">Natural Pasta Dye Recipe</a>). </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Good for fine motor skills and colour recognition. By Karla of Busy Bags!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A great little game; simple for young toddlers who just put the pieces together, with an added element for those more advanced ones who must match the symbols at each junction! Gross and fine motor skills, colour and symbol matching, planning and spatial awareness. By Kate of Busy Bags!</span></div>
<br />Jewels!http://www.blogger.com/profile/11953240674578070058noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-765910284680707227.post-41369137545198628462012-10-12T12:49:00.001-07:002012-10-12T15:06:59.167-07:00Conception! Planned and unplanned creation :)<b><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">How we were born!</span></u></b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm lucky enough to be part of a small tribe of local Mamas, who are a little bit alternative, creative, funky and human enough to be vital to my path of motherhood!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One fabby hippy Mum was really keen to get a group of us making and swapping 'Busy Bags' so that our toddlers would have something new to entertain them at any point in the day that they needed to be amused, such as while waiting for food at a restaurant; waiting at the doctors, traveling by train... etc</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">...and our local Busy bag swap group was born! </span><br />
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<b><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What's it all for?</span></u></b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The purpose of this blog is to share our wondrous creations with the world, celebrate our success and to serve as a reminder of what we made, and just how creative we can be, even with a tribe of small children in tow!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hopefully, you will use our blog to get ideas for a busy bag swap of your own, and will leave us your ideas and enthusiasm to cheer us on when we are faced with 10 empty bags at midnight and a random pile of felt to make something out of!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are also about to embark on "Baby Busy Bags" and "Older Children's Busy Bags" since it is clear that Busy Bags are a hit with all ages! (It has also been suggested that we make "Parent Busy Bags" around a theme of relaxation and reward! ...watch this space!)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, thanks for dropping in, enjoy browsing our creations, and if you see anything you like, please do leave a comment, question, idea, appreciation or a loving pat on the back which will be much appreciated by our Busy Bag Swap Mamas!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With love, and creative passion,</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jewels of Busy Bags!</span><br />
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