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We went on an 8 hour flight with our 3 children last year and I found all sorts of things for our kids. There are these magnetic books where the kids can stick the magnets all over the pages to make different scenes. You can also get magnadoodles, color wonder paper/markers, CDs to listen to, etc... As far as actual games, There are lots of things you can download off the internet as far as car travel activities, like travel bingo. Familyfun.com has lots of things for free but if you want to purchase some other items, just google travel toys/games for kids and some things will come up. I went to Toys R Us to get most of our stuff for our trip. Just try to vary the activities every 1/2 hour or so.
We went on an 8 hour flight with our 3 children last year and I found all sorts of things for our kids. There are these magnetic books where the kids can stick the magnets all over the pages to make different scenes. You can also get magnadoodles, color wonder paper/markers, CDs to listen to, etc... As far as actual games, There are lots of things you can download off the internet as far as car travel activities, like travel bingo. Familyfun.com has lots of things for free but if you want to purchase some other items, just google travel toys/games for kids and some things will come up. I went to Toys R Us to get most of our stuff for our trip. Just try to vary the activities every 1/2 hour or so.
Traveling with young ones?
Jen*
We are planning to take the kids to Disney World, and we are driving. The youngest one is three and I was wondering if anyone had tips on travelling with young children. And anyone that has taken their 3 year old to disney what was your experience?
Thanks
Our childrens ages are
Collin 5
Aaden 5
Bridget just turned 4
Hannah 3
Rock Candy( if you read what i wrote) it clearly states that we are driving.
It will be about a 20 hour drive. Im not changing my mind Im just looking for advice with what to do with young ones in the car.
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we did a long drive with our 4 kids the last two summers.
i make a binder for each kid with a pencil holder in the binder that holds crayons, pencils, and stickers. besides blank paper for drawing, i include age-appropriate other things that i download for the computer -- for the 3-and 4-year-old, try coloring pages and maybe some very simple dot-to-dots or mazes; for the 5-year-olds, you can include harder mazes, easy sudoku puzzles, color-by-number, easy crosswords, word searches, etc. If your 5-year-olds are reading yet, you can also include a list of the states and they can cross things off as they find license plates from those states. Depending on your kids, some 5-year-olds can also play battleship (print out two grids on one piece of paper, one for their ships and one for yours, and call out coordinates to each other). oh, and roadside bingo ... print out a bingo grid with pictures of things you might find along the road and let them look for them and cross them out. or have the kids try to find all the letters of the alphabet (in order) in signs or license plates.
i also give each kid a knapsack they can reach with their binder, lots of books, a little package of snacks they can ration over the course of the drive, a couple little animals or dolls who can play with each other, and occasionally another small toy like magnetic checkers (you can also get magnetic chutes and ladders, etc.).
also lots of I-spy, singing games, guess who i am, etc.
most importantly, lots of stops. do some research ahead of time and plan the best places to stop for a couple hours. preferably at kid-friendly venues like a children's museum or playground or at least a mcdonald's with a playspace.
i expected disaster with my kids (for our longest roadtrip over 4 days my kids were 7, 5, 3, and 1), but it was a blast for all of us. hope you have fun.
we did a long drive with our 4 kids the last two summers.
i make a binder for each kid with a pencil holder in the binder that holds crayons, pencils, and stickers. besides blank paper for drawing, i include age-appropriate other things that i download for the computer -- for the 3-and 4-year-old, try coloring pages and maybe some very simple dot-to-dots or mazes; for the 5-year-olds, you can include harder mazes, easy sudoku puzzles, color-by-number, easy crosswords, word searches, etc. If your 5-year-olds are reading yet, you can also include a list of the states and they can cross things off as they find license plates from those states. Depending on your kids, some 5-year-olds can also play battleship (print out two grids on one piece of paper, one for their ships and one for yours, and call out coordinates to each other). oh, and roadside bingo ... print out a bingo grid with pictures of things you might find along the road and let them look for them and cross them out. or have the kids try to find all the letters of the alphabet (in order) in signs or license plates.
i also give each kid a knapsack they can reach with their binder, lots of books, a little package of snacks they can ration over the course of the drive, a couple little animals or dolls who can play with each other, and occasionally another small toy like magnetic checkers (you can also get magnetic chutes and ladders, etc.).
also lots of I-spy, singing games, guess who i am, etc.
most importantly, lots of stops. do some research ahead of time and plan the best places to stop for a couple hours. preferably at kid-friendly venues like a children's museum or playground or at least a mcdonald's with a playspace.
i expected disaster with my kids (for our longest roadtrip over 4 days my kids were 7, 5, 3, and 1), but it was a blast for all of us. hope you have fun.
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