Alright, so I have had a lot of people ask me about the Busy Bag Swap/Exchange that I participated in so I decided the best way to get all of the information out there was to just blog about it. Here it goes...
So a few weeks ago I got an email from a friend saying that she wanted to organize a Busy Bag Swap, I thought this sounded like a wonderful idea. To give some background, busy bags are simple activities that young children can do on their own when you need a few uninterrupted minutes and don't want to just put them in front of a screen.
The idea behind the swap is to save money by putting together multiples of the same bag and then swapping them with other people.
We had four age groups: toddler, preschool, Kindergarten-2nd, and 3rd-5th. Between the two of us organizing people we knew we had a great response. We ended up with 18 in the toddler and preschool groups, 11 in the K-2 group and 7 in the 3-5 group. We were pretty excited about this. We had everybody email us with which activity they were going to put together so that we didn't end up with a bunch of the same thing and off to work we all went.
We gave ourselves about 2 weeks to put the bags all together and then we all met in the church gym to exchange our bags, it was so great!
So a few weeks ago I got an email from a friend saying that she wanted to organize a Busy Bag Swap, I thought this sounded like a wonderful idea. To give some background, busy bags are simple activities that young children can do on their own when you need a few uninterrupted minutes and don't want to just put them in front of a screen.
The idea behind the swap is to save money by putting together multiples of the same bag and then swapping them with other people.
We had four age groups: toddler, preschool, Kindergarten-2nd, and 3rd-5th. Between the two of us organizing people we knew we had a great response. We ended up with 18 in the toddler and preschool groups, 11 in the K-2 group and 7 in the 3-5 group. We were pretty excited about this. We had everybody email us with which activity they were going to put together so that we didn't end up with a bunch of the same thing and off to work we all went.
We gave ourselves about 2 weeks to put the bags all together and then we all met in the church gym to exchange our bags, it was so great!
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| 18 of these turned into... |
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| 18 of these turned into... |
I spent about $30-40 on the 36 bags I made, getting the 36 bags in return would have been way more expensive!
The swap...
Soren playing with one of his busy bags
So those are the basics, let me know if you have any questions!
You should all do your own swap because it is awesome!
2 comments:
This is a great idea.
Hmm, I wonder if I could get something like this together. Looks great, do you still get good use out of it with Soren?
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