Busy Bags Kids Will Love

Book excerpt: An engaging variety of mentally stimulating activities that keep children away from the TV As the parent of young children, it's hard to find a moment for yourself. Busy Bags Kids Will Love offers you a smart way to keep your kids engaged so you can relax. With step-by-step instructions and color photos on each page, it will teach you how to make fun, unique games with simple arts-and-crafts materials you have at home. Packed full of enough ideas for every week of the year, this book provides your kids with entertaining, exciting and educational activities, including: • Fishing for colorful letters and numbers • Building shapes with pipe cleaners and straws • Practicing words by rolling the dice • Getting creative with funny felt faces • Exploring textures with blocks, nuts, bolts and zippers • Learning to count with pom-pom patterns