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Monday, July 16, 2012

travelling with kids, without an ipad


The plan this week was to write about the struggle of doing without an ipad on a long car journey with kids. To outline that in our house there are no iphones, no ipods, no i anythings. We don’t have a mini dvd player for the car, a tv in the kids bedroom or playroom or anything on which to play the many cute and amazing apps I read about on coolmomtech.com.

It is all true but really, who am I fooling? I'm just showing off. For me these journeys are just a great excuse to buy nice stuff online. 


So, cutting out all the nonsense for once, this is what I recommend to keep kids aged one to ten happy(or if not happy, at the very least quiet for a while) on long car journeys. 



That's if you don't have an ipad.



And for the little fella, a magnetic vehicle board http://www.mimitoys.ie/product_4556_Vehicle-Magnetic-Board.html

A mini ink pad and notebook with instructions on how to draw thumb thingshttp://www.mimitoys.ie/product_4556_Vehicle-Magnetic-Board.html

And, for whoever doesn’t feel sick when they read:

2 comments:

  1. Hey Lucy, just stumbled onto your blog from Design Mom! Love this list. Most travel lists like I stumble upon are crap, but this one is great. Pinned quite a few them. I love Book Depository too...not as many in the US know about it. We travel to Australia with two boys fairly often so new useful travel toy/book ideas are essential! Thanks!

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    1. Thanks! Glad you found it useful. I really should do a follow up post to say which books/toys actually worked out most popular, I think I'd say the Mad Libs for kids book, the a to z mystery, the sticker book and the whiteboard. I'm pretty sure we used everything though.

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