Comments on: Tightwad Tuesday: Travel Entertainment for Kids

By: History of Entertainment and Recreation | Entertainment Heaven

History of Entertainment and Recreation | Entertainment Heaven — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 02:54:51 +0000

[...] Travel Entertainment for Kids In the next 3 weeks, I will be spending 6 days of 4+ hours in the car with the kids. My kids are pretty go fef od travelers, most of the time, but like any. Mail this post [...]

By: Family Travel: Cheap Entertainment for Kids

Family Travel: Cheap Entertainment for Kids — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:29:43 +0000

[...] Being Frugal is one of my favorite blogs and has a great post called Tightward Tuesday: Travel Entertainment for Kids that is stocked with great ideas! Be sure to check out the post, but here’s a preview: Looking for License Plates. Give each child a notepad before you start the trip. Have them see how many different state license plates they can find on the road. [...]

By: Carolyn

Carolyn — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:15:16 +0000

We love to listen to books on CD when traveling. We started out listening to Adventures in Odyssey from Focus on the Family when we drove 11 hours to Philadelphia (in 1 day!) six years ago and just recently finished up the entire Left Behind series. Books on CD tend to hold their interest quite well, and it leads to some great conversations. When the twins were younger, we'd play a variation on car bingo. Instead of cars, I would just name something for them to find, depending on where we were. In the country, I might ask them to find a red tractor or a swingset with only 1 swing, or in the city, a building with a red door or a blue van with a female driver. They also liked to keep track of out-of-state license plates that we saw. Carolyn’s last blog post..I Shouldn't Have Looked

By: Rent A Car

Rent A Car — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:13:39 +0000

We always get some new toys for the kids and wrap them up in wrapping paper for them to open at regular intervals. It’s a great way to keep them entertained.

I’ve also found, with my 2 girls under 2, that food keeps them quiet as well :P

By: Why I Don’t Buy Generic

Why I Don’t Buy Generic — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 04:48:51 +0000

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By: Leanne

Leanne — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:21:07 +0000

Some good ideas here. We often do long car trips with our kids so I'm always looking for something to keep them happy. We haven't gone down the DVD player path either. We borrowed one once, but found it's entertainment value didn't last that long. I put a link to some of our road trip "tricks" in Mr Linky. Leanne’s last blog post..$21 Challenge Fail - Sort Of

By: Charlie@PayLessForFood.com

Charlie@PayLessForFood.com — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:54:33 +0000

Great tips. Travel can be hard on young ones. Some things that may work.

Bring along cards. Kid love cards but in today’s high tech environment when do they ever get to play them. Old favorites like Go Fish and UNO are perfect for the car.

Give your kids a map and let them follow along with your progress. It makes things much more interesting for them if they know where they’re going.

Find wacky or wild places to stop off. These are places that they’ll always remember. Roadside America has a great website for finding weird and wacky rest stops and tourist attractions.

Start a scavenger hunt. Create lists ahead of time and let the kids compete to find the items on the list as you travel.

And don’t forget to bring blanket, pillows, and even sleeping bags. Sometimes kids just get cranky when they get tired. By doing things that make sleep more comfortable they’ll often be in a better mood.

Charlie@PayLessForFood.com’s last blog post..How to Break the Seductive Spell of Name Brands and Save Your Family Big Money

By: Marci

Marci — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:48:33 +0000

I guess I’m just old fashioned but I don’t see that anything is necessary to keep the kids entertained. I remember as a kid just being fascinated with the passing scenery. I still am. It bothers me that kids seem to think they need to BE entertained, and not that they can provide their own entertainment by just using their own imaginations.

Mostly I tell my grandkids to use their imaginations and enjoy the scenery. We talk a lot about what we see and related items. There is always something to see if one but looks. The only other things we do are: sing along with the radio, sing camp songs without the radio, play the license plate game, and an I spy game (which has to be done very fast as we are moving! And sometimes we just spend some quality time talking to each other and sharing their growing up years, and ‘back when Grammi was a kid’ stories, and we talk about family history also – a good time for passing along family stories and heritage.

By: cathie

cathie — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:33:47 +0000

If you don’t already have one, an inverter will make laptop dvd viewing easier. You won’t have to worry about the battery. You can get one fairly cheaply, and they are so useful for several different applications.

By: Lorie

Lorie — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:36:59 +0000

As a time-stretching snack of heard of mothers stringing cheerios or fruit loops onto yarn or something. They have to bite each one to get them off. Kind of like those candy necklaces but a bit healthier. Lorie’s last blog post..Menu Plan Monday June 7