Indoor games with bean bags

They need to move bean bags across the space one at a time. They need to do it at your command. So ,when they pick up a bean bag, you get to yell out whether they should run, skip, hop, leap, gallop, crawl, etc. Hide the Bean bag — Take turns hiding the bean bag and then having the others go and search for it. Kids love to search for things. Beanbags provide the perfect medium. The Oreo Games. Paper Plate Crowns. Get Kids Moving Game. Note: This post was originally written in The content is the same, but the post has been updated for quality purposes.

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Love the ideas! I just recently made a bean bag toss board for my daughters birthday! Melissa, your bean bag toss board idea is great. Would you mind if I made some and added them to my list of products on my website. This activity is great for so many areas of development gross motor, hand-eye coordination, socially and I think if parents could just purchase it they would be more inclined to get one for their child.

It would be great to offer a product that gets children off the couch. Thanks, Lauren. I would encourage you to contact her through the link to her site…in the comment section or figure out her email. Thanks for taking an interest. Hi Jodi! I look forward to following along: Come say hello anytime!! With one bean bag, begin develop the skill to throw and catch with one hand. Once this is mastered, add a second bean bag and practice passing two bags to opposites hands at once.

Finally, add the third bean bag. The challenge is the timing. Each bag must be thrown after another and before the next one is catch. Hot Potato. While everyone is sitting in a circle, pass a bean bag around and play a short song. When the song ends, the player with the bean bag sits in the middle of the circle. Keep playing until there is no more room for people in the center.

Tic Tac Toe. For seam allowance, line up the right hand edge of the presser foot with the edge of your fabric. Turn in the right way and press out the corners with sewing scissors. Use Sew along the whole length of the side with the opening, and close to the edge for a clean finish. This DIY could be used as a group project to get your Youth involved. Your email address will not be published. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Notify me of new posts by email.

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Hacky Sack Hugely popular, even for the unco-ordinated! Rob the Nest I used to love this game when I was in primary school!

Hot Potato Race Split into two teams. During my recent striving for minimalism purge, I destashed all of my fabric. I posted on Facebook offering giant bags of fabric in exchange for one or two sewing projects. My friend who had first pick worked out a few projects with me, one of which was a set of bean bags made from scraps of fabric and old shirts!

I had bought a giant bag of black beans, expecting her to fill them to the brim like the bean bags I had previously used. This turned out to be a genius idea, as it gives the bean bags just enough weight to carry out all of the games, but not enough weight to hurt someone or damage furniture if thrown in a moment of excitement.

I picked out matching plates to our bean bag colours and encouraged the children to initially try to throw the bean bags onto the same coloured plates. This was a fun, interactive way to the practice hand-eye coordination and co-operation. Crossing the midline reaching one limb across the body to the opposite side is an important gross motor skill that helps with brain elasticity and engaging different parts of the brain at the same time, so we did this fun twist on a passing game.

The children sat criss-cross applesauce in a circle and wrapped one arm across their bellies and used their other arm to receive and pass the bean bag from one friend to the other. I paused the song at intervals and whoever had the potato had to run around the circle and sit back down in their spot. I encouraged the children to walk around wearing the bean bag on their head as a balance and stability exercise, and then we tried semi-successfully to balance the bean bag on different parts of their body, for example, holding out their right foot and balancing the bean bag on that, or on the back of their hand.