More ideas for car travel with toddlers (WFMW)
- One family stops every hour to let them run around.
- The DVD player is the last resort.
- Coloring books and crayons are fun, but if you do that, DO NOT leave the crayons in the car in hot weather!!
- Buy these cheap sticker books at Michaels that have like 200 stickers in a variety of sizes. They can stick them all over themselves and it keeps them busy for a while.
- Small foam puzzles (usually at the dollar store, watch out for choking hazards, of course).
- Someone sits in the back to play with them in their seat.
More ideas in the first post about car travel with toddlers…
See more WFMW tips at Rocks in My Dryer….
“One family stops every hour to let them run around.” my parents did this with my sister and I and now I do it too
Stickers! A great idea until it’s two weeks later and you find they’ve been baked onto your leather seats.
In other words: when kids come out of the car, do a full inspection.
We are planning on driving from Indiana to Florida this summer with two toddlers and a baby. Thanks for the great ideas!
Great tips! Thanks for sharing! =)
We did about a 9 hour drive to Florida with our 4-year-old and 18-month-old last September. (crazee!)
We had the DVD player. It was a godsend and we spent a little more and bought the kind with dual screens. I also bought a new movie they had never seen and got it out just for the trip.
Travel size doodle pros are great. I also bought a bunch of small trinkets at the dollar store and filled a small tote bag and brought the new goodies out every hour or two. They were cheap so if we “lost” a slinky or whatever it wasn’t a crime!
the best Idea for the crayons in the car is to put them when not in use in a plastic baggie and to put them in the cooler.