Recommendations For Travel Toys For a Small Child Please

GlasweJen

Aqua draw mini is good, as is the duplo books where you build as you go, dolly is good as is the iPad/tablet for kids.

Quite a lot of kids sleep with the motion of the plane but make sure you have her sucking sweets on take off.

ilovebargains99

Another vote for an etch a sketch from me - it worked wonders for us. You can get them in the pound shop, they are very light and about A5 size, so good for travelling.
Ours is still going strong 2 years later too! :j

Cash-Cow_3

I took our two year old to spain once. She cried all the way there. Made every passenger's flight a living hell.

koalamummy

Cash-Cow wrote: »

I took our two year old to spain once. She cried all the way there. Made every passenger's flight a living hell.

That is something I hadn't thought of . She has travelled short haul quite a few times and has been absolutely fine. She is generally a happy smiley child who tries to make friends with everybody. I hadn't even considered her crying, but will go and give it some proper thought as I don't want to make an already long and unpleasant journey worse for anybody.

fluffnutter

Cash-Cow wrote: »

I took our two year old to spain once. She cried all the way there. Made every passenger's flight a living hell.

koalamummy wrote: »

That is something I hadn't thought of . She has travelled short haul quite a few times and has been absolutely fine. She is generally a happy smiley child who tries to make friends with everybody. I hadn't even considered her crying, but will go and give it some proper thought as I don't want to make an already long and unpleasant journey worse for anybody.

You're such a nice person, koalamummy

TBH, kids do cry and if one decides to do it on a flight there's not much anyone can do. Personally I'd be far less bothered by a crying child who's clearly a bit too young to be 'controlled' as it were than I would older kids who are allowed to run around screaming and shouting.

I wonder if Cash-Cow's daughter cried because she was uncomfortable with the changes in pressure perhaps, something that your daughter is unlikely to be troubled with as she's already flown before with no problems.

All you can do is what you're doing - try to find ways of keeping her amused. If more parents were as conscious of their fellow passengers as you are, the world would be a better place generally, IMO.

onlyroz

If you've got a smart-phone or a tablet then download some child-friendly apps, or some films or TV episodes for them to watch with headphones.

Counting_Pennies_2

I would definitely take along snacks and drinks and suggest them for take off and as you start to descend.

That is when the air pressure makes a big difference to their ears, they feel it much more than us. That is normally when they cry.

Also wait right up until the air stewardess insists they are strapped in. No need for them to have to sit down until then, they could stand up in the footwell of their seat and not be restricted for longer than needed

nottslass_2

Beg, Borrow or steal a tablet and head phones.
You can download their favorite films,TV and there are lots of toddler friendly apps too.

You can also get mini pots of play doh which kept my DS amused.

Another idea is to go somewhere like the early learning center and buy some "stocking filler"type toys - a wind up centipede and a wooden "bendy man thingy" kept DS amused for[STRIKE]20 mins[/STRIKE] hours.Like another poster suggested I wrapped stuff up as opening it gave them something else to keep them amused.

Don't worry about her crying,anybody who's ever traveled with kids will be sympathetic or you could do what one couple apparently did when traveling with a toddler,which was to apologise in advance to those sat near them whilst passing around the luxury chocolates - nobody would had the heart to tut disapprovingly after that !!

koalamummy

fluffnutter wrote: »

You're such a nice person, koalamummy

TBH, kids do cry and if one decides to do it on a flight there's not much anyone can do. Personally I'd be far less bothered by a crying child who's clearly a bit too young to be 'controlled' as it were than I would older kids who are allowed to run around screaming and shouting.

I wonder if Cash-Cow's daughter cried because she was uncomfortable with the changes in pressure perhaps, something that your daughter is unlikely to be troubled with as she's already flown before with no problems.

All you can do is what you're doing - try to find ways of keeping her amused. If more parents were as conscious of their fellow passengers as you are, the world would be a better place generally, IMO.

Thank you, I have my two older boys also travelling with us as well but I am confident that they will not be any problem for anybody else. They know how to behave in an acceptable manner in busy places and do so 99% of the time. Their sister has in my opinion not yet reached the stage where she is able to grasp this and is a bit of an unknown quantity so I am trying to be prepared for it.

Children and children's noise don't bother me as I am from a very large family and it was always "normal" to be surrounded by it, but I understand that this is not the case for many and they would find it at best annoying. I am just trying to make sure that I upset as few people as possible.....also I probably saw too many action films as a youngster and am a bit scared of being pushed out of cargo hold because we are too irritating!

I have an iPad and an iPhone which have already been claimed by my sons for the journey, but I will ask them to share. We have a collection of tried and trusted travel games that my sons both greatly enjoy like snakes and ladders and the Rory's Story cubes. I will definitely be getting some of the above suggestions for my daughter but I will take her to a toy shop to test out which ones she likes playing with.

flipper_72

i would make up a goody bag with bits from poundland or similar and some snacks etc plus some of their own well loved stuff, i have done this with my 2 and every 30 mins or so they get to pick something out of the bag (one each) - keeps them amused and mine don't get sweets/choc/crisps very often so they loved that aspect.