i'm just baggin' on ya!

i've been slightly obsessed with bean bags lately. my little guy has been enjoying tossing them around the house, and they've been a big hit in my speech therapy room, too! i've been using them as a reinforcement between speech activities (throwing them into a bucket or letting the kids stack up blocks in different configurations and knocking them down, angry birds style), or as part of the speech activity (having kids throw them at cards on the ground to pick out their targets). big hit. literally. ha. now let's make some!

first mix rice (extra fancy! because it was on sale) with a few drops of liquid candle scent (to make them smell ah-mazing)

cut some cute scraps into rectangles

then fold them in half inside out and sew around the edges,

but don't forget to leave a little section open at the end!

now flip that bad boy inside out and open up the little section to fill with your scented rice. you can make a funnel with a piece of paper to minimize the rice spillage. then sew up the little hole using a blind ladder stitch.

there you have it! the possibilities are endless. ok, they could probably end at some point, but the kids have been choosing them week after week for a while now. it's nice to mix things up in the speech room with a little bit of physical activity every now and then!