Busy Bag Idea - Pom Pom Patterns - with a Printable

My 5 year old likes this a lot and it would also be good for a younger child.  You take the printables and print them on card stock and laminate them if you want to.  Then you gather up some colored pom poms of different sizes. 

You can find the printables to this activity here.


Here is a pattern sheet where you figure out the pattern and put the correct colored pom pom at the end.

Here you can make your own color patterns but follow the size patterns.  Then at the bottom of this sheet you can follow the counting pattern by putting the correct number of pom poms in the square with the number on it.

You can store this in a gallon zip top bag.

Hope you like this activity.

 

Preschool Busy Bag Activity - Color Sorting

I participated in a preschool busy bag swap a while back and I am so glad I did.  I finally have organized all of the activities (which I will share about in a later post) and we are now using them quite a bit.  This one is a favorite with my 2 1/2 year old.  My four year old likes it too but it is really easy for her.

You have four colors - red, blue, green, yellow.  Then you have objects of the same color to sort into the paper bags.

Check out the original post from My Delicious Ambiguity.  You can download your own FREE copy of the color sorting printables from Home Grown Hearts.

In this bag there are mostly just objects that the person picked out like foam shapes, pom poms, straws and other things.  You can download the printables or just find things you already have around your house.  It all folds up and fits in a gallon size zip top bag.

We are working on color recognition.  He can see what colors match but sometimes he has a hard time putting a name to all of them.

Another color matching thing he loves is this duck color puzzle.  You can download it in Confessions of a Homeschooler's Pond Theme pack (pages 8-9).  I laminated it for more durability.  He does really well at this with only a little help from me.

Do you have any busy bag ideas that work well at your house?