Busy Bags to keep children busy (without smartphones and tablets)

How to keep kids busy at home and on the go without smartphones and tablets? Prepare Busy Bags, that is, small bags or containers in which to insert games and materials to carry out fun activities.

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How to keep kids busy at home and on the go without smartphones and tablets? Prepare some Busy Bags, that is, small bags or containers in which to insert games and materials to carry out fun activities.

Children need to get in touch with different objects, materials, shapes and colors to be stimulated to explore the world, as the Montessori method underlines among other things. According to Maria Montessori in fact a rich and varied environment is essential to promote the correct development of children.

Depending on where and when you are, and the age of the children, you can encourage them to play simple games or small fun activities that are both pastimes and opportunities to promote memory and concentration, to be creative. and to start learning numbers and colors. Just get a case and a purse, also made of fabric, and insert the material inside to entertain them according to their age and their favorite games. In this way you can entertain the children at the restaurant, in the car, in line at the pediatrician or in all those situations in which they risk getting bored as an alternative to the tablet or smartphone that is too often preferred by parents in these circumstances.

Here are many examples of Busy Bags that you can make available to children according to their age.

Read also: MONTESSORI METHOD: 10 PRINCIPLES TO EDUCATE HAPPY CHILDREN

BUSY BAGS FOR CHILDREN FROM 6 TO 12 MONTHS

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Busy Bag with rattles

For younger children you can prepare a Busy Bag by gathering rattles, small books to leaf through and soft toys.

Busy Bags to keep children busy (without smartphones and tablets)

Fonte photo: Carbis

Busy bag with fabric games

For younger children, prepare a Busy Bag with lots of them soft cloth games with which they can have fun in complete safety. Also insert some puppets created by you if you want.

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Photo source: Etsy

Busy Bag with stackable cubes

Stacking cubes are one of the favorite games of young children at all times. They favor the concentration and stimulate motor activities and sight.

Photo source: Etsy

BUSY BAGS FOR CHILDREN FROM 12 TO 18 MONTHS

Busy Bag con i pom-pom

Here is an idea from creative recycling. You can create pom-poms with old balls of wool and prepare bowls in which the children will have fun collecting them. Older children can learn how to make pom-poms.

Read also: DIY POM POM: 10 SIMPLE WAYS TO MAKE THEM

Fonte foto: Intentional By Grace

Busy Bag with containers

Small children begin to stack objects or insert them one inside the other as in the case of these interlocking containers and cups from which you can take inspiration to prepare your Busy Bag.

Fonte photo: Carbis

Busy Bag with flowers and colors

Prepare many paper flowers of different colors that children can start mating by recognizing the same colors and the same shape.

Fonte foto: Engaging Toddler Activities

BUSY BAGS FOR 2 YEARS OLD CHILDREN

Busy Bag with wax crayons

For children who like to draw and color, prepare a Busy Bag with sheets, blocks, crayons and colorful stickers.

Fonte foto: The Climbing Tree

Busy Bag with soft toys and cars

If your children like them soft toys and toy cars prepare a Busy Bag that is also easy to take on trips and to fill with small toys.

Fonte foto: The Climbing Tree

Busy Bag with the color wheel

For children around the age of 2 it can be fun to start learn colors associating colored clothespins to the corresponding segments of a colored wheel.

Read also: HOW TO MAKE THE WHEEL TO LEARN THE COLORS

Fonte foto: Engaging Toddler Activities

BUSY BAGS FOR CHILDREN OF 3-4 YEARS

Busy Bags to learn numbers

If you want to bring children closer to the world of numbers, prepare some Busy Bags full of cards with numbers and pictures that they help them to associate numbers, objects and quantities.

Fonte foto: Engaging Toddler Activities

Busy Bag with modeling clay

With the modeling clay, even better if home made, you can prepare your most fun Busy Bag for playing at home and on the go.

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Photo source: The laughing robin

Busy Bag puzzle animals

Dedicated to children who love animals and puzzle, here is a ready-made pastime that you just need to print to allow children to start playing. Here the pdf to download and print.