tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6743921172715592593.post1530338777869852009..comments2024-03-28T11:17:35.470-03:00Comments on Simple Things Notebook: 17 Tips for Road Trippin' with KiddosDawn Suzettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09483805832809961369noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6743921172715592593.post-42351784087005569852013-01-27T21:12:36.671-04:002013-01-27T21:12:36.671-04:00great ideas, thanks!
since my sister and i both g...great ideas, thanks! <br />since my sister and i both got motion sickness after just a few minutes of reading or any kind of 'paper-on-lap' activity, audio books were our best and favorite option. and singing, that never seems to get boring.simonahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04666859949065117637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6743921172715592593.post-64547160287521634552013-01-24T06:04:28.546-04:002013-01-24T06:04:28.546-04:00KC... Yes. I forgot music. A must! And dolls. The ...KC... Yes. I forgot music. A must! And dolls. The kids do bring along a little stuffy animal to keep them company. <br /><br />The story cubes and cards are really fun and would be wonderful for the cramped spaces on a plane!<br />My mom flew with the threes of us kids to Japan... an 18 hr flight back then. I should ask her if she remembers what she did to keep us happy travlers. Air travel is a whole different beast.Dawn Suzettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09483805832809961369noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6743921172715592593.post-44822921285905809262013-01-24T05:59:55.845-04:002013-01-24T05:59:55.845-04:00You are very welcom Kim! I hope your trip is a gre...You are very welcom Kim! I hope your trip is a great one! Dawn Suzettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09483805832809961369noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6743921172715592593.post-79622232896979961202013-01-23T22:58:36.179-04:002013-01-23T22:58:36.179-04:00Such great ideas! On our recent 10 hour trip we ha...Such great ideas! On our recent 10 hour trip we had sparkle stories, books and lots of music. As well as dolls, silk scarves and lots of silly songs with hand movements. But I will definitely be picking up the story dice and cards. I will need something for our long plane trip! Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11754877585279239499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6743921172715592593.post-77910256600653767412013-01-23T22:27:57.010-04:002013-01-23T22:27:57.010-04:00Thank you so much!! This gives me some great ideas...Thank you so much!! This gives me some great ideas for our upcoming road trip. It is just the little man and I for 18 hours, our first long road trip. It will be interesting for sure, and these ideas will help to make it a ton of fun for both of us.Kim https://www.blogger.com/profile/08476209107377395745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6743921172715592593.post-12510482947930674102013-01-23T21:42:01.468-04:002013-01-23T21:42:01.468-04:00My dad was a leave in the dark kinda traveler. Tha...My dad was a leave in the dark kinda traveler. That brought back memories of heading to the car with my pillow ;-)<br />Thanks so much for the low down on all of the great audio books. It is amazing how the reader can make such a huge difference. <br />Dawn Suzettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09483805832809961369noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6743921172715592593.post-17038009325713289752013-01-23T21:39:54.779-04:002013-01-23T21:39:54.779-04:00Yay for mini plastic dinos! I recall this story fr...Yay for mini plastic dinos! I recall this story from another convo... but love it! So happy you shared it here too.<br />I just got some glue dots today! The little lady is itchin' to try them out!<br />Thanks for all the great ideas Lori!Dawn Suzettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09483805832809961369noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6743921172715592593.post-54164321742951422552013-01-23T12:45:44.779-04:002013-01-23T12:45:44.779-04:00Our longest trip with the kids is only about 6 hou...Our longest trip with the kids is only about 6 hours. When we first started doing it the kids were quite young and it was a long six hours, often having a wide variety of hands on things to keep them busy. We would leave in the dark, stop somewhere for breakfast & if it got very difficult, put on the dvd player for the last hour or so. Really this was how the first year or two went when we made this trip (from our home to Vegas to see my parents). The kids were 2-6 years old at the time. We make the trip 2-4 times a year and after the 2nd year we ditched the dvd completely. I don't imagine we would feel the need to use it now unless we were traveling multiple days and it would be an end of the day thing. The kids all bring paper & books for drawing, they all like to doodle and sketch. They have a few hand held electronics that get used off and on, but that is usually kept to a minimum. Mostly we listen to audio books. We have been members of Audible.com for years and get more than our money's worth out of it. All of the kids LOVE to listen to books. We do a lot of driving locally and always listen to books. Our all time favorite reader is Jim Dale, The Harry Potter books topping the list of favorites. We have probably listened to the series at least 3 times. He also reads a series called "Peter & the Star Catchers", if you've not read them I highly recommend the first 4 in the series. (The 5th is awful, not read by Jim and the writers clearly forgot their audience, the kids hated it, which was so disappointing since the rest of the series is wonderful!) Our current series in the car is the Series of Unfortunate Events. The recordings are not great in the first 5, but from there on they are fantastic, Tim Curry is just awesome (He reads the 1st, but it is a multicast reading & has sound effects, which we found distracting). Books 2-5 are read by Lemony Snicket, who has a nice enough voice but the dynamic range of sound was not well moderated so some characters would be very soft then he nearly give us all a heart attack by raising his voice so loud for a different character. I got good at volume control with those. Now we are back to Tim and it is just great. We have just 3 books left in the series. For my kids we've found that as long as a book is on, they are quite content. We are in the car for at least an hour on any given day so I'm glad, it makes for very peaceful car rides and we get a lot of books under our belt. Meeshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18315382330306876827noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6743921172715592593.post-51747968186250089732013-01-23T10:59:45.717-04:002013-01-23T10:59:45.717-04:00one long cross-country road trip our boys spent ho...one long cross-country road trip our boys spent hours making movies with digital cameras and miniature plastic dinosaurs. :)<br /><br />when they were very little i started filling a bag with things i would collect from the dollar store and from our drawer where little toys and things congregated (stocking stuffers that were forgotten, leftover party favors, etc.) — then on the trip i would dole them out slowly when things got boring. the plastic dinosaurs were from that bag, and with the digital camera (using the video capability) they turned into hours and hours of fun. :)<br /><br />our trip journal materials included glue sticks, tape, safety scissors, and photo corners (for holding postcards). whenever we made a stop they would collect free ephemera (free maps, flyers, etc.) and maybe buy a 25c postcard, then the half-hour after the stop (at least) would be spent collaging in their journal. and we always add an envelope (preferably the manilla kind with a closure) to the back of our trip journals to hold little loose treasures. :)Lorihttp://project-based-homeschooling.com/camp-creek-blog/noreply@blogger.com