This month, in keeping with our “Traveling with Children” theme, Little Pickle Press decided to offer you, our readers, a chance to win an adorable DabbaWalla children’s travel backpack in exchange for your tips on how to keep children busy on planes, trains, and automobiles. We received some wonderful advice!
The winner for this month is Christina Michaels, for this wonderfully unique travel tip:
“I just heard this tip for flying with little ones: go to a fabric store and buy a variety of buckles, snaps, Velcro, etc. Attach them to straps and then hot glue them to an empty water bottle. It’ll keep the baby entertained for hours!”
Here are some of the other tips you had to offer:
“We always play ‘I packed my grandmother’s trunk’. The key is to make the entries as long and silly as possible. Like: ‘I packed my grandmother’s trunk and in it I put an Absurd antelope aching for an apple’ or a ‘Brainy buffalo burping on his brother’s butt’, etc. We never really get past M or N because everyone is laughing too hard.” – Robin Helman
“For an on the road game with kids and the whole family, spotting the most out of state or personalized license plates, and also finding the alphabet/numbers in the plates too.” – Desiree Dexter Brown
“It’s always fun to play the alphabet game on long car trips- kids can work together to find all the letters of the alphabet in either license plates, signs of a combination of the two” – Elizabeth Campi
“Guess we’re a victim of the electronic age… I’ve loaded lots of educational games and books onto my iPad. LeapFrog letter and number pad is great too.” – Cathy Coloff
“My trip for keeping children engaged while traveling is to capture their imaginations. Finger puppets!” – Leslie Iorillo
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Thank you to everyone who participated in this month’s giveaway, and congratulations Christina! Stay tuned for details about our July giveaway, which will be listed in our July newsletter. Sign up here to join our mailing list and receive our monthly newsletter.
6 comments:
After years of journeying to Martha's Vineyard from San Francisco with young children, I had an epiphany this year - instead of waking the kids up at the crack of dawn to travel, take the redeye! We bought them neck pillows, and they brought their favorite snuggly blankets. Worked like a charm, and they slept the whole way across the continent!
Hey, the finger puppets were Dani's tip! :D
I loved counting all the out of state license plates on road trips too!
Great idea from Little Pickle Press...I remember leaving for a long car trip at night so the kids would sleep...the next challenge was keeping my husband awake while driving!
TableTopics has a wonderful kids edition. I recommend leaving one set in the car and bringing one set on planes.
I love these ideas and will certainly try some of them when we head to Breckenridge next month. With an 8-1/2 year old daughter and a 3 year old son, we really are challenged in playing games that stimulate both of them for extended periods of time. To date, our best game is "Slug Bug". For a 3 year old, Blake has got game! On long car trips, sometimes the DVD and Nintendo are the only things that work after other ideas have run their course. ~~Keith
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