{"id":1623,"date":"2023-01-03T14:46:35","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T22:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museofthemorning.com\/site\/?p=1623"},"modified":"2023-01-03T14:46:40","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T22:46:40","slug":"color-sorting-busy-bag-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museofthemorning.com\/site\/color-sorting-busy-bag-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Color Sorting Busy Bag – Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A while ago, Stephanie<\/a> suggested a Busy Bag swap. It sounded like a great idea to me because I am always looking for ways to keep the little guy busy while Lil\u2019Miss is taking a class. A group of us decided to do a virtual swap.<\/p>\n\n\n

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It was a lot of fun, looking for ideas of what sort of bag I should make. There are a lot of great ideas out there! I ended up making 5 different ones from some different websites out there, but this is the one I\u2019m going to share with you today. It\u2019s a color sorting mat with a bunch of little treasures to sort. This is perfect for Mister Man because he loves the little treasures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I collected the treasures over a lot of time because I used to sell\u00a0I Spy Bags<\/a>\u00a0in my\u00a0Etsy shop<\/a>. If you don\u2019t have a collection of tiny treasures to steal from for this activity, look around your house for little things. Kids always seem to attract little toys and prizes. There are also a lot of things available online- like these\u00a0colorful shape buttons<\/a>, these\u00a0large wooden beads<\/a>\u00a0or these\u00a0foam beads<\/a>. You can also find plastic charms on etsy. Flat marbles would be another option. My little guy finds these treasures to be fascinating and has spent a lot of time examining them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you\u2019ve got a kiddo who mouths things, you might not want to use little tiny things. Maybe some shapes cut from felt or cut from cardstock would work. There are a lot of options!<\/p>\n\n\n

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So, in addition to a small cache of treasures, you will need a 6 pieces of felt in colors red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple. The colorful squares should measure 3\u00d74 inches. You\u2019ll also need a larger piece of felt for the background. This can be any color and should measure 9\u00d78 inches.
Lastly, you\u2019ll need something to keep the set in. I have been using a zippered pencil bag like this\u00a0one<\/a>\u00a0with a vinyl window, but there are also some with\u00a0mesh windows<\/a>\u00a0which might also be nice.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Line up the small colorful rectangles on top of the bigger piece of felt. Bump them right up against each other. You can put them in any order. I\u2019m partial to rainbow order, so that\u2019s what I did. I highly recommend that you pin the felt squares in place so they don\u2019t move around while you\u2019re sewing.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Use a wide zig-zag stitch and stitch the layers together down the center lengthwise. Catch both sides of the small rectangles as you go.
Next, stitch the other way, catching the edges of the small rectangles.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Finally, stitch around the edges, very close to the edge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once I was finished, I trimmed around the edges, where my stitching didn\u2019t make it all the way to the edge.<\/p>\n\n\n

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And that\u2019s it! Place the mat and the treasures in the pencil bag and bring it along for a quiet activity for your kiddo!!<\/p>\n\n\n

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To use the activity, the kiddo is supposed to sort the tiny treasures onto the rectangle that is the matching color. Of course, they don\u2019t *have* to use it that way, and I guarantee there will be a lot of exploring with all the little items to check out!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The little guy loves this set. He did not want to stop playing when I said it was time to put it away. Luckily he was pacified when I told him he\u2019d get to play with it during Lil\u2019 Miss\u2019s Improv class next week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, how do you keep your little ones busy when they also need to be quiet? Anybody else have some great ideas? Share them in the comments!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A while ago, Stephanie suggested a Busy Bag swap. It sounded like a great idea to me because I am always looking for ways to keep the little guy busy while Lil\u2019Miss is taking a class. A group of us decided to do a virtual swap. It was a lot of fun, looking for ideas of what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1623","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-make-stuff-for-kids","9":"post-with-thumbnail","10":"post-with-thumbnail-large"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/museofthemorning.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/museofthemorning.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/museofthemorning.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museofthemorning.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museofthemorning.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/museofthemorning.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museofthemorning.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museofthemorning.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museofthemorning.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museofthemorning.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}