Activity Bags

If you haven't done activity bags now is the time to do it!

Activity bags are "self-guided activities that a preschooler can do by himself with little to no help." Each activity is kept in its own 1 gallon size zipper bag with an average cost of $1 to create. These activities are a simple and fun way to kept your kids entertained. I have used these when I needed to make dinner, work on the computer, or keep the variety up when the kids are going crazy from being inside all day.

Activity bags books can be found at www.activitybags.com. You can either download the books for $15.00 or purchase and have them mailed from $21.00 - and up. There are Preschool Activities, Science Experiments, Reading Games, Travel Activities (who has never needed those?!?), Math Games, Daily Activity Journal, and a Coordinator Handbook.

If you don't want to take on the cost yourself, the website recommends setting up a swap. Basically a bunch of people split up the activities. For example, you get a group of 10 moms ready to go. Each mom takes 1 to 2 activities and creates 10 bags of each of those activities. Then you get together and swap, so each mom goes home with a bag for each activity that was created.

I can't even begin to tell you how much I love these things. I downloaded the book and emailed it to Kinko's. They printed all the pages they could by copyright law (which was pretty much all of it minus a couple pages I wouldn't have printed anyway) and put them in a binder for me. I then headed to Micheal's with my weekly Sunday coupons and stocked up on supplies. They are perfect for my 3 yr old and I can usually tweak them a bit so my 1 yr old can participate as well. 

So, check them out. Tell me what you think. Enjoy!