Busy Bags

[skippy]

you could have one with a gingerbread man type shape and googly eyes, different coloured yarn for hair and glue you can tint for each child to choose their own skin colouring to pain on the body.

a bag of lacing cards

(I'm new to this and gathering ideas myself). I asked if other mothers/childcare providers wanted to have a busy bag exchange and we all make 5 for each other and get 5 back from each mom....nobody wanted to participate I thought it was a great idea

[Inspired by Reggio]

.... I asked if other mothers/childcare providers wanted to have a busy bag exchange and we all make 5 for each other and get 5 back from each mom....nobody wanted to participate I thought it was a great idea

Oh bummer ~ we did this with our local childcare network group a few years back and it was awesome cause like 13 people participated and we got 12 new ideas for our quiet time bins! We did it again 2 years ago and had about 6 people out.

• Another thing we made was 'eye spy bottles' with colored rice and little bitty things hid in the bottle around the rice and you shake it to find them things.
  
• Coloring mixing bottles (water bottles with colored oil and colored water so when you shake them together they mix to make a 3rd color and then separate back)
  
• Paper clip bin with gimp for lacing and creating paper clip chains.