The first of the projects I have completed for the girls for our road trips this summer . . . I Spy Bags. I had researched how to make these on other people's blogs and thought they looked easy enough, so thought I'd give them a try. They were pretty easy to make, but finding the plastic pellets and the trinkets for the inside were the hardest part. I ended up buying the plastic pellets at Michaels and the trinkets from some vendor on Etsy.
And then I saw this great idea about having a picture "key" to go with it, so that the girls know what to look for. So I laid out all the trinkets and took a picture of them. The funny thing is that the trinkets are on a white piece of paper, but when I put the picture into Word and printed it, the background looks light blue.
I laminated the card, sewed a ribbon into the bag while I was making the bag, then attached the card to the ribbon.
And then there is a cute little pocket in the back for the key card to be in when it's not being played with so that it doesn't get torn/ mangled.
I am so excited by how well they turned out. I can only hope the girls are as excited about them as I am. And more importantly, that they're entertained by them for longer than 2 minutes ;)
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