Occupy my 21 month old in a car

plumpmouse

Hello

Trying to think of things to occupy son on car journey to and from holiday.

He loves sticker (any one know where to get cheapest sticker books from)

Going to take some of his books as well as he loves being read to and just looking at them.

Can anyone else think of anything 21 month old with whilst traveling.

Thanks

Squidgy

Our daughters a bit older (30 months) but she enjoyed listening to a cd of kids theme tunes that I picked up from the bookman that comes to my work. She sang along to them all the way there, all the way back and ever since!

aliasojo

What about a personal dvd player that goes on the back of the front seat headrest?





Nah.........just kidding. :rotfl:


Mini etch a sketch thingy? ELC do them. Kids binoculars? Daughter loved these.....they were 'proper' binoculars that she could see things out the car window with but they were pretty rubbishy as they were only cheapos. She didn't seem to mind and sat for ages staring out the window, lol.

Magnetic letters/pictures/board. Again you can get mini ones that fold into their own case. (Might be a pain if he dropped them in the car whilst you were driving though.)

Sleeping tablets?





Nah.....just kidding again. Lol!

Pink.

We drive to France (from Northern Ireland via Scotland) every year, and it's the one time that I don't limit sweets. I Keep a bag of pick and mix type things (not chocolate as it makes a dreadful mess) and keep chucking them over my shoulder into the back seat.

I usually make each child up a goodie bag of magazines, jig-saws etc etc before we go. New interesting things keep them occupied for a little while.

Take as many short breaks as you can, preferably at services with playgrounds.........at least they feel they've been out of the car for a while.

I bought all of mine cheap walk-mans from Argos so they could listen to their own tapes/cd's.

Lots of pillows in the back for when they get tired and want to sleep.

Pink

Twinkle_Mitchell

Hi!
My daughter is 30 months and we have the same problem! We have a good tape of rhymes that we sing to. We also play 'what noise does the animal make?' games. I always pack a number of healthy munchies for her to get through, e.g raisins, carrot sticks, beaker of juice.
Hope this helps,
Twinkle

Lillibet_2

Not very high tech but I was a terrible traveller as a child so couldn't occupy myself with reading/jigsaw etc as they made me a million times worse so my parents played games with me, everything from eye-spy to 20 questions to spot the road sign (pick one for the day!)to who can count the most post boxes over 10 miles! Oh, and books on tape were good for the odd quiet half hour at a time:D

HTH

jenpoptab

We usually travel of an evening so that monkey will sleep, is that a possibility?

Spendless

Plumpmouse-is this for when you go to center parcs? (re another thread).

Last time we went we set off at lunchtime and I changed daughters PM nursery to an AM session that day. Meant we could get packed alone and by time she was picked up from nursery she was tired from playing all morning and had been given her dinner there also so slept most of way.

Depending on what time you're setting off could you or someone else take your little one somewhere prior to setting off.

I also sit in the back with the kids and put my nan (who comes with us) in front so I'm next to kids to sing songs/entertain/distract and on hand if they're feeling sick.

plumpmouse

Thanks everyone.

Spendless it is for the centre parcs trip. The journey there shouldn't be too bad as he is a good traveller and it is only about 1 1/2 journey. We are heading up to scotland for a week afterwards though.

More bothered by the journey home as it will be probably 3-4 hours long

HappySad

Hi my son is also 21months old. What we do is tie a cloth book to his carv seat. I use a cloth book because this is safer because a normal book would injure him if there was an accident. I also hand a picture on the back of the front car so that he has something to look at.

We are usuallu Ok with driving because he usually falls asleep in the car. Having somone sitting in the back to entertain is a good idea.... as already said. And so is also singing nursery rhymes.