Busy Bag Idea for Toddlers - Cheap and Easy DIY

hey hey guys it's Christina with the purple alphabet and I've recently been asked by a lot of my friends what are these bags that you're bringing to restaurants when we go out so I wanted to give you a couple ideas of what I've been putting in my busy bags lately and some of the favorites of my kids and I tell you what you probably have many of these things so here's three bags that we'll do today and maybe some other time if you guys like this I will do some more so here's the first one this one's super simple actually they're all pretty super simple I keep my all in zippered pouches with a little see-through window that I purchased at Walmart this one only has three things in it and two which are used for the actual activity so I've got some pipe cleaners these came out of a larger pack and I do replace them frequently because they just like to play with the pipe cleaners by themselves sometimes but also I have a container of pony beads and pony beads come in all the primary colors and they match the pipe cleaners so very simple skill is just a bead the pony beads onto the pipe cleaner and my three-year-old will spend hours doing this and she does like to match the colors as well so finding the right color in the pile and putting it on super super simple the next is for my 18 month old she's really into stickers right now so this one has a whole bunch of stickers you can choose whatever you have around the house or maybe you have a favorite character ours is the beloved little mouse and the doctor and I've bought this little notebook and it's just filled with all the pages and we use this as our sticker book so what she'll do she'll go through we'll pick a page and he'll find a sticker she likes to try and peel him off she'll take quite some time to peel him off and put him on herself and she'll put them anywhere she wants and have a great time that way in addition to this bag I also put some crayons inside so that way if she does get tired with the sticker applying she can just color on the blank pages as well so it sort of suits another purpose so that's my bag number two stickers and it will spend a ton of time peeling them off and sticking them on to the blank pages and lastly you've probably seen these materials at the dollar store as well I think they're at the 99 cent store and that is magnetic letters so if I'm at home I'll pull out my cookie sheet and we'll use them on the magnetic board and dump them out here so you can see what they are they're just magnetic numbers every numbers in here and then a set of addition flash cards and I've told you all before that my kids aren't into addition right now but it's the numbers and the number recognition that we're working on this set I bought for 20 cents on sale at Big Lots so what they'll do is I'll put one card on the magnetic board and then they will match up the number so she'll find the one and she will actually put it on top of that number and see how they work really nicely if you don't have flash cards you can make your own with some blank index cards I found a set at Big Lots for forty five cents and you can make your own if you don't want them done in addition to be able to be used later you can just do the single numbers by themselves so we'll go through we'll do the cards matching as a number recognition skill super simple very easy other time she also likes to just put the numbers on the board and we talked about what they are and the colors associated with them alright guys that's it those are three super simple easy busy bags that you can do on your own you probably have the materials at home already if you want to see more ID videos like this please click like and subscribe and I will keep on making them if you have some great busy bag ideas I want to see them put your information down on the comments boxes and I will read them have a great day guys bye

Channel: The Purple Alphabet

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Id: lSFshijZKjI

Length: 4min 1sec (241 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 25 2015