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\nIdeas for making those car trips memorable in the very best way:<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. WINDOW AS CANVAS<\/strong>\u00a0If you don\u2019t mind wiping the windows, let the kids use dry-erase markers to color pictures. Kids love to play tic-tac-toe. A baby wipe clears it up fast \u2014 makes the kids great travelers.<\/p>\n

2. FOR VERY YOUNG ONES\u00a0<\/strong>Pick up two clipboards at the dollar store to draw on. Tear pages out of coloring books and bring plain white paper. Let them use crayons \u2013 not as messy as markers.\u00a0Also bring along some favorite lost and forgotten figurines from the bottom of the toy box. It was fun and quiet.<\/p>\n

3. TAPES & ZIPLOCS\u00a0<\/strong>Bring for each child lap desks for coloring, and individual snacks packed in their own Ziploc snack bags, and lots of sing-along tapes.<\/p>\n

4. WIRED FOR PLAY\u00a0<\/strong>Borrow a small tv\/vcr and hook it up in the car so the kids can watch movies.With Red box or Blockbuster you can borrow them here and return along the way at other locations. Let them bring headphones and tapes or CDs they like. Get a couple of books on tape for the youngest kids that they really liked to listen to. The oldest can bring cards to play (like Uno, Go FIsh, a regular deck). Also pack a Frisbee, ball and gloves, and some bubbles in an easy-to-get-to place, so when stopping at a rest area you can all get a little exercise.<\/p>\n

5. BOOKS & ACTIVITY BAGS M<\/strong>ake a trip to the library and let each child pick out a couple of books for the ride. Pack an activity bag that straps onto the seat in front of the kids that are stocked with papers for drawing, activity books, and colored pencils (crayons melt in hot cars). Also bring a family activity bag with small magnetic games like checkers, Chinese checkers, etc.<\/p>\n

6. MODEL MAGIC\u00a0<\/strong>Take a couple of packages of multi-colored pipe cleaners and several packages of Crayola Model Magic which sticks to itself but not to the interior of the car or the kids\u2019 clothes, it doesn\u2019t blend unless the kids make it blend. Any little crumbles can just be brushed out or vacuumed away.<\/p>\n

7. NIGHTTIME TRAVEL\u00a0<\/strong>Even if it is a baby toy, kids have fun with ANYTHING that lights up. The dollar store has neon glow bracelets and sticks (the kind you\u2019d purchase at an amusement park or nighttime parade) that kids can connect and make bracelets or necklaces out of. Glow-in-the-dark star stickers are fun to get out too. Have them use their mini-flashlights on them to get them to shine. They can stick them above their seat in the car (if they are big enough), or you can have them do it before it gets dark when stopping for gasoline or something quick.<\/p>\n

8. TRAVEL JOURNALS<\/strong>\u00a0Create travel journals in a 3-prong folder. Print off info \u2014 state bird, state flag, state capital \u2014 on the states you will be vacationing in (and also driving through) from state Web sites. Print out coloring pages from free Web sites on subjects having to do with those states (a moose for Maine, seashells for the beach). And to stop the dreaded \u201cAre we there yet?\u201dprint out a map of our route and highlight the roads, marking off the parts as we complete them.Take all of the printables, add a few sheets of lined paper, and start each new section of the journal with \u201cOur Trip to \u2026 Summer 2012.\u201d Then the kids add what time we left, where we stopped, what we saw on the way, etc. They now have a collection of memories in one folder of all our trips.<\/p>\n

9. TRAVEL BINGO\u00a0<\/strong>Purchase\u00a0auto bingo boards for sale, or just make them yourself and get the kids to help out.<\/p>\n

10. SMALL SURPRISES\u00a0<\/strong>Prepare small gifts along the way to keep the children occupied. Wrap them and tell the kids they will receive a gift if they are well behaved until the next stop.<\/p>\n

11. CAR LICENSE GAME<\/strong>\u00a0Play the car license game with them. Older kids can identify the states, and younger ones can look for the different colors, letters or numbers.<\/p>\n

12. MAD LIBS\u00a0<\/strong>Buy some Mad Libs. The kids will take turns filling in the answers and will love reading the funny stories<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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