H is for Healthy Lunchboxes Busy Bag for School Aged Children

This is our second post for the Virtual Busy Bag Exchange.  I hope you have all been enjoying the great ideas on offer.  Today I am joined by Nadia from Teach Me Mommy who has created a Magnetic Spelling Game Busy Bag.  Make sure you pop over and have a look.

Bee and Bear's Kindergarten class has started to talk about Healthy and Unhealthy Foods.  They recently had a visit from a dentist and after the school holidays they will be involved in a program based on movement and healthy eating.

I realised this would be a good opportunity to reinforce the basic ideas of what foods are healthy or unhealthy.  At this stage both girls can identify basic concepts such as fruit is healthy and doughnuts are unhealthy but that's as far as it goes.  This Healthy Lunchboxes Busy Bag will give us plenty of chances to discuss why some foods are unhealthy and what this means.

What is in the Busy Bag.  Lunchbox is optional.

For school aged children the Healthy Lunchboxes Busy Bag may provoke discussions about food groups, recommended servings and other nutrition based concepts.  As an extension activity you could also include a grocery store catalogue for your child to look through and find items to include on the shopping list for their lunchboxes.

When playing with the Healthy Lunchboxes Busy Bag, your child chooses one of the human characters to pack a healthy lunchbox for them to take to school.  They then look through the food items included and decide which ones are healthy options and which of those to include in the lunchbox.  Once that lunchbox is packed, your child can then choose one of the monster characters to pack an unhealthy lunchbox for them to take to monster school.

A more detailed explanation of this Busy Bag is included with the printable.  Click on this link to download a copy of the Healthy Lunchboxes Busy Bag printable.

Making a sandwich for the healthy lunchbox.

Bee putting together the healthy lunchbox.

The finished healthy lunchbox.

Bear working on her version of the healthy lunchbox.

Making an unhealthy lunchbox for the monster.

Bee working on the unhealthy lunchbox.

Bear checking over her version of the unhealthy lunchbox.

If you have a Busy Bag idea suitable for school aged children be sure to link it up below. *By linking up, you agree to have your images featured / shared with credit.


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G is for Grow My Garden Busy Bag for Preschoolers

Busy Bags are great to have on hand when you need a few minutes of uninterrupted quiet time or when you and the kids are waiting at the doctors.

If you would like a detailed explanation of what Busy Bags are and some more examples head over to Teach Me Mommy for the Introduction to our Virtual Busy Bag Exchange. 

I have teamed up with 11 other bloggers to present you with Busy Bags that you can use with Babies through to School Aged children.  Today Kim from Life over C's, Kelly from Kelly's Classroom and myself have swapped Busy Bags suitable for 5 and 6 year olds. Once you have finished with our Busy Bag make sure you head over to Kim's and Kelly's blogs via the links above to see the other bags for this age group.

I came up with a vegetable garden theme for our Busy Bag.  Growing their own vegetables and herbs is a great activity for children of all ages to be involved in.  In our Grow My Garden Busy Bag, kids get to choose a vegetable to 'plant' in their garden.  Then then roll the dice to see how many of that vegetable they need to 'grow'.  Your child then makes the number of vegetables needed out of the playdough and places them in the garden.


For full details on how to put this busy bag together, download the Grow My Garden Busy Bag printable file.

Bee making cauliflowers for her side of the garden.

The girls worked together so we wrote the number from the dice onto the seed cards.

Sharing the Busy Bag

 

And make sure you come back tomorrow to see our Busy Bag for School Aged children.

If you have a Busy Bag idea suitable for 5 and 6 year olds be sure to link it up below. *By linking up, you agree to have your images featured / shared with credit.


Also check out our Virtual Busy Bag Exchange board.

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Happy Growing!