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Threading Love Hearts Busy Bag

January 15, 2015 by Emma Gadsby 2 Comments

We are excited to be taking part in another Busy Bag Blog Hop. We have teamed up with several bloggers from around the world to bring you a Busy Bag based on the theme of Valentine’s Day. We love Busy Bags as the activity promotes independent play, can be reused time and time again and can be taken out with you on trips to occupy your little one. We had the perfect container for our Valentine’s Day Busy Bag – a Love Heart Tin (affiliate link). Our heart cookie cutters (affiliate link) also fitted inside! We therefore decided to make a Threading Love Hearts Busy Bag.

The busy bag was fairly easy to make. I found four pieces of coloured felt and used four of the bigger heart cookie cutters as a template. I cut out four sized hearts in four different coloured pieces of felt and repeated the process until I had 16 hearts in total. Once each heart set was on top of each other I slit a hole in the middle of each heart that was just big enough for my heart button to fit through.

Adventures of Adam How to make a threading love heart

I next sewed a purple button on to one end of a piece of pink ribbon and did the same with a red button at the other end. The red button is used as a stopper. Now all that was left was for Adam to thread the purple heart and ribbon through each of the individual hearts.

Adventures of Adam Toddler valentines threading

Our felt love hearts and ribbon fitted perfectly into our Love Heart Tin.

Adventures of Adam Love Hearts Busy Bag

The great thing about our threading love hearts activity is that the hearts can be threaded onto the ribbon in a variety of ways. Adam can either thread them in size order, colour order or randomly. It is a fantastic toddler friendly Valentines Day activity to develop his fine motor skills.

Adventures of Adam Threading love hearts busy bag Adventures of Adam

Equipment:

* Love Heart Tin (affiliate link)

* Heart cookie cutters (affiliate link)

* Pencil and sharp scissors

* Felt (affiliate link)

* Two heart shaped buttons

* Needle and thread

* Ribbon

 

 

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Arrow Addition Matching Game // Mama.Papa.Bubba.

Felt Heart Garden // Powerful Mothering

LEGO Valentine’s Day Puzzle // Lemon Lime Adventures

Letter Match Memory Game // The Educators’ Spin On It

DIY Valentine Dominoes // Mommy Needs a Coffee Break

Printable Valentine’s Day Mix and Match Puzzles // Itsy Bitsy Fun

Printable Conversation Heart Number Book // Playdough to Plato

Conversation Heart Color Match // Preschool Inspirations

Valentine’s Day Math Busy Bag // Still Playing School

3 Low Prep Busy Bags // Lalymom

Plant Heart Garden // Best Toys 4 Toddlers

Tic Tac Toe // Frogs Snails and Puppy Dog Tails

Threading Love Hearts // Adventures of Adam

Valentine’s Day Color Sort // Sugar Aunts

Valentine’s Day Number Matching // Coffee Cups and Crayons

 

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  1. Amanda says

    January 15, 2015 at 1:19 pm

    Oooh – I think I may make the felt heart garden and cut slits in the hearts so the kids can string it. Then put both activities in a bag! I love 2:1’s.

    Reply
  2. Malia {Playdough to Plato} says

    January 16, 2015 at 3:45 pm

    What a brilliant fine motor activity!! Awesome. Pinning and sharing. 🙂

    Reply

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