License Plate Game Map
I left the license plate game sheet I made at home so I decided to whip up a new one – my idea to draw a US map got slightly derailed by the slight problem with scale I had (note: gap between Alabama and…
Kids Travel Journals
I took little lined books from the dollar store and turned them into travel journals for the kids. The first pages are filled with route pictures that are divided up into mileage segments, which will hopefully be helpful for them to visualize “are we…
A Little Bit of Everything
Tonight I’m sitting at the computer working on a little bit of everything – putting together a few mix cds (two for us, one for the kiddos), finishing up a few little graphics projects I’ve got going, and printing photos to put together a…
Crayola Online Fun
Sometime in the past year when we bought Crayola products they included an access code to use the Crayola Story Studio for six months. I decided to activate the account tonight to play around with it and see what I could do (my code…
Travel Trays
Something that’s always hard for my kids when we’re in the car for a long period of time is having a flat spot on their laps to eat snacks, play with toys or especially color or write on. You can buy special travel trays…
Travel Scavenger Hunt
When we go on road trips my kids like it when I give them things to search for on the road – sometimes I draw them a scavenger hunt which they like even better. In advance of our trip, I drew a few sheets…
Find It Jars
My daughter’s class made find it bottles in school last week. I collected some small items to add to the bottles but spaced it on the due date so they didn’t get used at school – but I thought they’d be a great addition…
Preschool Car Bingo
Recently we came up with a fun game to play with the kids in the car: Find a car for each color of the rainbow, with the optional difficulty of doing it in rainbow order. We played it by just saying the color of…
Kids Route Map
As part of my kids road trip prep, I made a route map they can color in as we go. What I envision is that I’ll mark the map at each stop we make and they can color up to that point – that…
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