Travelling on long haul flights with 21 month old!

kirstyk_3

Any good ideas and tips for amusing a 21 month old on a long haul flight to orlando in august. She doesnt have her own seat as she is under 2, but equally doesnt like to be kept still!!!!

any ideas gratefully accepted

cazziebo

kirstyk wrote: »

Any good ideas and tips for amusing a 21 month old on a long haul flight to orlando in august. She doesnt have her own seat as she is under 2, but equally doesnt like to be kept still!!!!

any ideas gratefully accepted

Did this on my own with two under fours a long time ago! Piece of cake.

take a bag of different things and just pull them out at intervals. My two both liked the sticker books -that killed a couple of hours. Activity books were good too - the ones with flaps and holes and stuff. Dressing a cabbage patch doll was good, (at that time the doll was part of the family!) just took some new clothes. These really cheap "magic screens" worked well - we used to call them etch a sketch but that will be showing my age.... Finger puppets when I really had to..

With any luck there will be a couple of hours sleeping time as well.

Have a great time. I dreaded going to Orlando but we had the best time. the kids found it magical.

Woby_Tide

after taking a twenty month old on a 4 1/2 hour flighto Turkey the other year I'd say a parachute

depends on timings but if you can get them to sleep, that helps for quite a bit. Ours slept just as the seatbelts came on for landing so we had to wake him. Then spent the 2 hour coach trip obsessively looking out the front of the coach into the pitch black. Finally went to sleep at 5am in the hotel


Toys/books, for a longer flight a portable DVD with one of their favourite films to pull out every now and again?