Review: Preschool Activities in a Bag AND Giveaway!

Preschoolers. . . Gotta love their energy! The world is an adventure and they are total sponges, absorbing everything that is around them. While this boundless exuberance can be a joy to behold and witness, at times it can also be a tad annoying. If you have ever been in a waiting room, a doctor’s office, in church or on an airplane with a preschooler, you have felt my pain. Or maybe you are a veteran homeschooling mom, attempting to teach multiple levels of older students with your preschooler demanding to be a part of it all, but really just driving everyone nuts. In situations like these, what’s a poor parent to do? Enter Preschool Activities In a Bag! (insert deep super hero announcer voice here)

Preschool Activities In a Bag, Book 1 is a compilation of over 30 different activities and games that are perfect for children under the age of six – but don’t be surprised if your older students ask to get in on the fun, too! Paula Reetz and Sherri MacLean designed each bag to contain self-guided activities that your children can do by themselves with minimal parental interaction. There are 11 main skill sets that are learned and enhanced with the activities: 123 Order, ABC Order, Color, Consumable, Motor Skills, Hand/Eye Coordination, Matching, Observation, Patterning, Puzzle and Sorting. One of the things that I love about this book is all of the helpful charts and descriptions that allow you to see at a glance what activities touch on what skill sets. If your child is having difficulty with motor skills, for example, you can quickly scan the chart and see there are 19 activities that focus on this skill. If your child is struggling with hand/eye coordination, you can tell which of the activities (there are 8 of them) would be good for your student to work on to develop this skill. Thus, the bags are not only fun for your children, and a much needed diversion, but they are very educational!

Another one of the reasons why I am now singing the praises of this book, and its authors, is. . .

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