A Bean Bag Education
I have a post up here on making my own bean bag toys for my sons. They were super quick and simple to make, even a non-crafty person could do it. And since they were made from scrap material and a bag of lentils I found in the back of my cubbard the price was great too. Once I had them I did a few searches for some fun things to do with the beanbags. Besides, you know, throwing them at each other’s heads and giggling madly.
Somewhere along the way I found this site of teaching supplies that sells bean bags and games for them. The price was a bit much for me. While for some a set of 12 bean bags for $10.50 is not really that much, considering I had just made some for practically nothing it seems a bit steep. Just a great example of DIY rather than letting the professionals do it for you. With how simple they are to make, even for begginers, you could whip up a batch of shapes, colors, planets, or whatever else you needed over the weekend.
I also found this post and bookmarked it for some great reading. Stories, adventure, and math. With, what else, bean bags! A pretty simple strategy, tossing bean bags back and forth while singing to help learn counting. I have heard of others doing this to learn multiplication tables as well. And my favorite part is it involves movement while learning, something that I think kids need rather than sitting still at a desk.
You can use bean bags to teach music, get some hand-eye coordination, practise estimation and measuring, or just toss at the head of kids who are supposed to be working but instead are glued to the TV. Call it a lesson in reflexes.
bean bags, homeschooling, lesson plans, fun, children
January 7th, 2008 at 9:58 am
Wow. Thanks for the ideas, Summer. I am having a hard time with schooling right now… in a real unmotivated slump. Maybe I will try this to spice it up for us!
January 7th, 2008 at 10:10 am
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