Waiting Room Plays Cards for Toddlers | Printable Quiet Games From Your Bag, Large Print, Ages 6 Months to 5

“What's in the bag? Something blue…” That is the line on the first card in this set of twelve quiet plays for the wait.

Each card uses things already in your bag, like a board book, a few chunky crayons, a small notebook or a scarf: a slow peek into the bag, a paper fan, a drawing made one line each, a calm story about what happens next. Every card has one idea, one line to say in big type, and a safety line wherever the idea needs one. Each card shows the age it starts from.

What's inside
• A cover card and a how-to card
• 12 idea cards, each with a "What to say" line
• 2 blank cards for your own ideas
• The same cards in large print, two to a page, for grandparents and anyone who likes bigger type

Formats, in one ZIP (four PDFs):
• US Letter, 4 cards a page, 4 pages
• A4, 4 cards a page, 4 pages
• Large print, US Letter, 2 cards a page with body text 18 pt and up, 7 pages
• Large print, A4, the same, 7 pages

Cards are 3.65 × 4.65 in before you trim the margin. Print at 100% on card stock and cut on the dashed lines. Nothing ships; this is a digital download. No web address or QR code appears on the cards.

Safety: everything comes from your bag, and for under-threes nothing small enough to fit through a toilet-paper tube. The scarf stays loose, never around a neck.

These are play ideas for a grown-up and a child, together. Nothing here is a test, and it makes no promise about any result.

License: one household. Please don't post, share or resell the files.

“Virtual Autism” is not a medical diagnosis. These are play materials, not treatment, and not medical advice. Not affiliated with the documentary A Stone Unturned or its website, virtualautism.org.

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