My sister’s family is taking a very long road trip and is not looking forward to the long hours in the car with 5 kids. I decided to help make the trip a little less stressful.
I was able to find a number of great ideas on the web and then made a bag for each child and have filled them with car appropriate crafts and activities.
It was fun choosing fabric for each child and then creating a pattern for the bags.
Some of the ideas that I found:
- Give each child a cookie sheet. It works as a lap board and can hold small pieces. You can add magnets to game pieces and draw checker boards or other games on it.
- Car bingo and gummy bears. Check out these bingo cards.
http://craftsanddeals.blogspot.com/2011/05/road-trip-bingo.html - Pipe cleaners to make animals and other items.
- Aluminum Foil. Kids can create jewelry, hats, animals, allow the kids to express their creativity.
- Origami. Fish, Frog, Turtles, Boats, Stars, Flowers. Hours of fun.
- Crosswords and word searches.
- Items from the dollar store. Coloring books, and a bag of balls.
- Paper dolls and clothing to color.
- Familyfun.com has great papercraft ideas. Just cut the needed paper before you leave.