This Mommas World: Toddler Busy Bag Swap Party

I was invited to the coolest little party today by one of my very good friends, a TODDLER BUSY BAG SWAP PARTY!! I am sure many of you have seen these ideas floating around on Pinterest! Here is the idea behind the party: Each person that is invited has to RSVP to the party and in there RSVP list what busy bag they would be making and bringing, then when all the RSVP's were received you were told how many busy bags you had to make and bring (this way there would be no duplicates), Example: we had 14 people coming to this party so I had to make 14 of the same busy bag. When we go to the party everyone laid there busy bags out on the table and then you got to walk around the table and take one of everyone's busy bags so when you leave, you leave with 14 different busy bags........ HOW COOL IS THAT!!!! This idea was found HERE

Here are the rules for your busy bags:

Also found HERE

Each activity needed to meet the following criteria:

Self-contained. This way, you can just grab a bag and GO! (without having to add a number of supplies to the bag in order to make it useful.)

Transportable. Yes, they will definitely be used at home, but I want to be able to grab a few bags to take to a restaurant, a waiting room, plane trips, car rides, etc.

Convenient. None of the bags will have supplies that require major set-up or clean-up: (no paint, watercolors, liquids, sand, dirt, etc.)

Inexpensive. I didn’t want anyone spending too much money on this project!

Easy to Make: I didn’t want anyone spending hours and hours and hours making their activity.

Re-usable. I want these activities to last a while so that our other children can use them in the future. Therefore, I avoided activities where you would have to buy new supplies to re-stock the bag. This is why lamination is important for some of the activities.

Here is a all my loot!!

This is a fun matching game using paint chips and clothes pins

This one is pipe cleaners and beads, you lace the beads onto the pipe cleaners.

My toddler just turned two in November so some of these games she doesn't get quite yet, BUT this one she has been playing with since we got home from the party....... two and a half hours ago!!!

This one you match the number on the clothes pin to the number of stars on the wheels

This one I had never heard of before it is called "Bolts and Nuts" There are letters on every side of the little nuts (if that is the right word?) and you can turn them to spell over 100 different words! The instructions are on the little card it came with.

This is a little lace matching game, using the yarn match the color of the box on the left to the correct word on the right.

You know you have done it right if, when you flip the card over your yarn matches up to the lines on the back!

Homemade play dough.......... who doesn't LOVE play dough!?!?

Another little matching game. The orange numbers are velcroed to the cards, so you take off all the orange numbers and then match the number on the circle to the number of elephants on each card.