toys/activities for road trip

We are taking about an 8 hour road trip here in a few weeks and I was wanting to get some new toys for my older DS who is almost 3 to play with in the car. We have a DVD player which we will use, but I don't really want him to watch movies the entire time (which I think he would get bored with anyway.) I'm looking for things that are small and fairly inexpensive. Any ideas?

 

we are leaving on Sat for a 9 hour trip.

I made up little surprise "bags" out of paper lunch bags. I made 10 of them, 5 for each kid and thoughout the trip they will get one. I put in little books, stickers, finger puppets, snacks, little matchbox cars, "little people", etc. Each bag has something different (although they all have books since my kiddos love them.)

 

The $1 shelf at Target always seems to have good things to keep in the car. What about a magna doodle?

 

I often drive to my mums who is 1.5 hour drive and found the kids were getting very bored so i bought 'my little art desk' from the Early Learning Centre, its a bag that attaches to the back of the front seats and then folds down so it then ends up in their lap if you know what i mean...... it has a pad and pencil case with crayons and feltip pens but i took out the feltpens and put in coloured pencils and some colouring books, they both love them and keeps them occupied for the entire journey there and back!! I am from Englad by the way so not sure if you have an Early Learning Centre in the states.

I like the idea of a selection bag too.

Chris

 

QUOTE(mandyfish3 @ Jun 16 2009, 10:22 AM) [snapback]1356280[/snapback]
we are leaving on Sat for a 9 hour trip.

I made up little surprise "bags" out of paper lunch bags. I made 10 of them, 5 for each kid and thoughout the trip they will get one. I put in little books, stickers, finger puppets, snacks, little matchbox cars, "little people", etc. Each bag has something different (although they all have books since my kiddos love them.)

What a great idea!!

We had some travel magna doodles, books and stickers.

 

We just got back from a 27 hour road trip. We had magna doodles, color wonders coloring book - where the markers only show up on that paper. car, stickers and a few new books. And then we played games like find something outside that is the color "yellow", or tell me when you see a blue truck. They actually did a lot better than I thought they would on such a long ride.

 

If you are near a Michaels, they have some great items for $1.00.

-Stickers in rolls
-pages to color with a set of pens
-small sized color books
-small notebooks (some even have a small pen)
-post it notes (mine love to draw pictures on these)
-small craft kits (stringing foam beads, decorate a notebook, etc)

We also have one of those zipper open back of the seat contraptions which has pockets to hold books, crayons and small items.

Sharon

 

QUOTE(mandyfish3 @ Jun 16 2009, 10:22 AM) [snapback]1356280[/snapback]
we are leaving on Sat for a 9 hour trip.

I made up little surprise "bags" out of paper lunch bags. I made 10 of them, 5 for each kid and thoughout the trip they will get one. I put in little books, stickers, finger puppets, snacks, little matchbox cars, "little people", etc. Each bag has something different (although they all have books since my kiddos love them.)


That is a good one! We also have Bead Maze on our road trip.

 

We took a trip from Oregon to Arizona a few months ago; MANY hours in the car! I had little baskets that I put their toys in & they ended up dumping out the toys and putting the baskets on their heads.

One thing I really wish I'd had was some kind of lap desk with a cup holder. I got really tired of having to pull over all the time to find dropped sippies!