Unplugged kids travel activities are the perfect way to use travel time to reconnect as a family. Use the ride to encourage learning, enhance imagination, stimulate creativity, and work on fine motor skills. Research shows that kids today need time away from the screen, and travel time is an easy way to encourage new and exciting ways to play. These tips and tricks can show you how to create a travel activity kit that is sure to provide hours of fun.
Word and math games are a fun way to connect with your child and reinforce basic skills. Games like hangman, travel Yahtzee, Sudoku, Twenty-One, and crossword puzzles work well on the plane and give you a chance to connect with your kids away from the distractions of home. Activity books give children the opportunity to combine learning and creativity with a variety of mazes, puzzles, and coloring pages. Remember to pack colors and pencils!
Simple craft items like Magic Scratch, lacing cards, crayon sticks, stickers, and color your own crafts encourage creativity in kids of all ages. Build storytelling skills by having children create scenes with the stickers and crayon sticks, and then tell a story about the images they create.
Ball catcher toys and bead mazes develop hand-eye coordination as kids learn to master the new trick. Use this time to bond with your children by learning the skill yourself. Take turns and hold contests to see who can master it the fastest. In a confined environment, like a plane or a car, these are fun and quiet ways to burn off energy.
Stimulate the imagination with small animals, finger puppets, Bendi figures, cars or dolls. You can follow the game or encourage your child to create a game on their own. Isn’t that a slick “let’s pretend a person” or do you just hate the idea? Get involved by making houses, habitats, or obstacle courses for the game.
Use a mix of all of these to create the perfect activity kit that stimulates all areas of your children’s minds to keep them quietly entertained. Unplug on your next vacation and use the time to reconnect as a family and build off-screen gaming skills using kids’ travel activities.
