So last month we set off on our first family road trip. We drove from Canberra to Brisbane to visit Nanny and then back again. We decided to drive during the day and do an overnight stop to break up the 15hour drive. Each day we spent 7-8hours in the car and it was my job to keep a 22month old and a 4 year old happy whilst hubby did the driving. I packed the car with lots of new things that the kids hadn't played with before, lots of yummy but non-sugary food and the essential brand new portable DVD player!!!
The DVD player got a great workout and the favourite of the trip was the Playschool Nursery Rhymes DVD - we all learnt some new songs and the kids enjoyed interacting with the characters/presenters. It gave me a bit of timeout!
Other things I packed in the car were:
- Lots of pencils, crayons, colouring books, plain paper and activity books.
- STICKERS (which ended up everywhere but were fun)
- some great USBOURNE activity cards that were reusuable using a dry erase marker
- magnetic activity sets, I got the tiger tribe ones - a transport one for the boy and a doll dress up one for the girl.
- a cheap cookie tray for the magnets worked great and also came in handy for other things like containing slime!
The tray also came in handy for drawing on as it kept the pencils contained and stopped them rollling on the floor!
Wikki Stix from www.craft4kids.com.au! Great for creating and not messy! They peel off anything!
Most importantly though, schedule in some decent stops every couple of hours and let them run!!!
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