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Colored Baggies… Oh My!

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Are you seeing this picture correctly?
They make COLORED BAGGIES?
Yeah buddy.
A wonderful parent brought a pack to school last year for their student’s school supplies.
When we opened the box, my assistant was like…
“Mary, have you seen this?“
If you know me you know I have this “thing” for color coding everything.
So this was huge news.
Well, I have been looking for them and looking for them.
I have been saving my special colored baggies in a safe place and
only using them when I really needed them.
Then, this past week at Walmart, guess what I found?
{here is a link to grab them online}
MORE COLORED BAGGIES.
 So I bought a box…
Or two…
or a lot.
And no this isn’t all of the baggies I bought.
They are like $2.48 a box of 80 baggies…
and I have to have a stash at home AND school.
When you open the box, this is what you see.
There are yellow, red, green, and blue baggies.
They look darker in the box then they actually are.
Here are the four colors when you lay them out.
{The background is gray here.}
So how do I use them?
First, I use them to sort student activities.
When my students get to a center,
 they can each grab a different colored baggie and do the activity in the bag.
These cards all contain the exact same greater or less than comparison cards,
but they have different images in the middle.
In the colored baggies, these activities are even easier to grab and organize.
Here is another example.
  Every year we spend some time learning about mixing colors.
I found this AMAZING book at Barnes and Noble last weekend,
called Magic Colors.
There are others in the series too, but I don’t personally have them… yet.}
http://www.amazon.com/Magic-Colors-PatrickGeorge/dp/1907967540/ref=as_sl_pc_ss_til?tag=sharinkinder-20&linkCode=w01&linkId=5BTR7NDQDPAYHG3K&creativeASIN=1907967540
Check out the colored pages…
 and you turn the page to this…
Do you “see” the magic page?
Here is another example…
 and this…
I am thinking we can use these baggies to make our own color magic book!
At the very least,
we can take the baggies and perhaps our light table and make some secondary colors.
Check out the yellow and blue baggie together…
 and the yellow and red baggie…
 and the blue and red baggie.
What about these additional ideas?
I also have plans to make reading strips with these.
Sorting activities would also be easy!
What if we made colored “nets” to and added them to a sensory table???
Could we create special color coded glasses to “read to room” with?
Yeppers.
I also have this idea to use BLUE baggies to make cool fish bowls with.
{Add some clear hair gel and some plastic fish counters…
then have your little ones count the fish in the baggie.
I think I can create some amazing colorful pocket chart activities with this as well…
with fake magnifying glasses to “find” particular thing on the pocket chart.
Here is another way I use colored baggies. I use the colored baggies to organize activities for my students.
Here is a math activity for 4 students. Math Activities broken into color coded groups for students!
Each student has the same activity, but each color coded in their own baggie!
Talk about easy for the students to grab and use. And clean up is a breeze!
I also organize all my Print & Play Packs by days into colored baggies as well.
Here is an example of my School Rules Pack with daily activities divided into color coded activities. Color Code your activities with baggies like this School Rules Pack
 See how this header for a pocket chart and pieces all have a blue border?
And all the pieces go into the blue baggie!School Rules pack with color coded border!
What ideas do you have to utilize these colored baggies in your classroom?
Colored Baggies

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