Although cheap airplane tickets and discount hotel rooms or cheap vacation packages tend to make parents happy, children needs are quite different while on the road. Many say that snacks, books and kid friendly gadgets are parents best friends when traveling.
The following are suggestions as to how to make your children happy travelers:
Callaway Digital Arts, Inc offers interactive stories for Apple devices that incorporate story hits including Sesame Street, Miss Spider and Angelina Ballerina.
The Android Nabi Kids Tablet is a kid friendly tablet that comes pre loaded with games and learning programs. Its 7 inch screen can also be used to watch movies.
Beary Happi is an app that empowers toddlers and young children to transform an iPhone or iPod Touch into a kid graspable device that sings, tell stories and interacts. Parents can rest easy if they purchase a fuzzy bear case from Infantino HappiTaps that protects their devices in the event one is dropped during playtime.
By snapping your iPod Touch or iPhone into Hasbros MY3D Viewer movies, games and apps can be viewed in 3D.
Reusable sticker scenes available in a variety of backgrounds (zoos, pirate ships, etc.) can keep children occupied particularly when they are placed on a paper background that children can use crayons or pens to further decorate them.
Children tend to stay busy and have great fun building things out of Lego kits.
Arts and craft kits which pack everything from scissors, crayons, markers and paper in a single handy case are ideal for traveling.
An inflatable beach ball and bubbles are great, yet inexpensive, ways to occupy children and help them burn off energy at rest stops.
Chalkboard Placements are ideal for travel in a car or plane or for just keeping children busy while waiting for meals. Leapsandbounds sells a two-pack that includes roll-up placemats, chalk that fits inside the pockets and a sponge.
Travel size games such as Candyland, Hi Ho Cherry-O and Zingo are fun ways to keep children occupied.
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