How To Amuse Kids While Traveling – Kid Travel Games – Travel Activity for Kids

Here are some suggestions for what to bring and some kid travel games. You know best what your children like, and try to bring lots of bang for the buck, i.e. toys that will entertain them for a long time, but packs small. Game Boys are very good in this respect, and a few new games can keep them (and you) occupied for hours on a long flight.

Books are also always a good travel activity for kids, for younger kids it is often best to pick books they've read before, while older kids may prefer something new.

It is a good idea to bring along some of their favourite toys and kid travel games and some new “surprise” toys. One of my favourite things that my mother-in-law did for us when we went away for a week is she pre-packed some new inexpensive toys,

For older kids you can let them choose for the most part what they want to bring. I let our son pack his backpack on wheels and he can bring whatever fits into it (with some guidance of course!)

Don’t forget to bring along some beach toys and waterproof toys for when you get there!

Kid Travel Games – Travel Activities - For Babies

• any object that's bright and shiny!
• rattles of all sorts (not real noisy ones)
• music making toys
• mega blocks for babies
• magnetic stick-together blocks
• toys of interesting shapes, sizes and colours
• pop-up toys
• a plastic mirror

Kid Travel Games – Travel Activities – For Older Babies and Toddlers

• nested containers
• sets of things to put into containers
• things that fit into other things
• busy boxes with levers, bells, moving parts
• board books
• simple speaking toys: baby pushes button, toy speaks (not too loud!)
• small wind-up toys
• blanket, stuffed animals

Kid Travel Games – Travel Activities – For Pre-Schoolers

• Picture books
• stickers and activity books, crayons, magic markers
• lap-sized wipe-off boards
• Easi-Tracer
• small mirrors
• finger puppets
• costume jewelry
• pop up books
• post-it notes, scotch tape
• inexpensive sets of plastic figures (animals, dinosaurs, astronauts...)
• magnetic letters & metal board
• miniature wind-up cars

Kid Travel Games – Travel Activities – For Pre-Schoolers to Grade 2's

• activity books
• travel size Etch- a-Sketch
• stick-on play sets
• travel-size Magna-Doodle
• threading sets (pictures with yarn)
• felt boards
• I Spy™ Memory Game – Travel Edition
• small magnetic puzzles
• small wind-up toys
• Go-Fish cards, Old Maid, Crazy Eights
• silly putty
• Play Dough
• walkman/discman, with story/ song audiocassettes/cd's
• small cars, figures, animals

Kid Travel Games – Travel Activities – For Older Kids

• Chapter books
• Comic books
• activity books, maze books
• blank paper, for playing Hangman and Xs & Os
• regular deck of cards
• travel-size popular board games
• Speak'n'Spell
• small Lego sets (--store the pieces in Ziploc bags)
• puzzles
• magnetic games
• origami
• Walkman and portable cassette or CD players
• Game Boys - handheld electronic games (a life saver for long wait times)
• Brain Quest- Trivia Games

Have a look at our printable travel games page for more ideas!

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