Create A Restaurant Activity Kit To Keep Kids Entertained At Dinner

As anyone with young kids knows, eating out can be hit or miss, especially if you’d like to go somewhere a step up from fast food! I came up with a way to ease the pain of dining out by bringing along a restaurant…

Tips for Surviving Airplane Travel with Kids

Traveling by plane with kids is stressful – there’s no way around it. You’re all trapped in a little metal tube for hours on end with hundreds of strangers and no way to escape. There are a few major differences between traveling by air…

Travel Journals for Germany

I started making travel journals for the kids when we went to Montana last summer, and then in the fall I made journals again for our trip to Germany. The little guy is still a bit young to fully appreciate it, but I do…

Color Matching Game for Kids

I saw an idea for a color matching game on Pinterest (searching through many many unattributed pins on that site led me to find this post which seems original although not the one I saw). I made a set for each child and brought…

Felt Boards for Kids

Over the next few days I’m going to post some of the projects I did during my ‘hiatus’ from the site. Way back in August I started on a project to make felt boards for the kids, mainly for our trip to Germany to…

Everyone Here Is Getting Excited

I helped the kiddo make a countdown calendar to mark off the days until our trip. It’s installed in our bedroom (so one little frequent visitor doesn’t mess with it) and the first day is marked off!

More Travel Journals for Kids

I got these sweet blank journals at an event this summer and set them aside to use for the kids’ travel journals this fall. I’m starting to add some activity pages and the nameplate pages.

Travel Maps for Travel Journals

I’ve come up for air for a minute from the hectic pace of back-to-school to work on the kids’ travel journals for our upcoming trip. Today I drew the route maps for our flights out and back; not the actual map but an approximation…

Felt-Board for Storytelling

We have a big trip coming up in about 6 weeks and it involves a loooong plane ride, so I’m starting to think about how to entertain the little munchkins while we’re airborne. One thought was to make a small feltboard that I can…

Tips For Surviving Car Travel with Kids

As the veteran of various long road trips with kids, starting when my 4 1/2 year-old daughter was 18 months old (we also have a 2 1/2 year-old), I’ve managed to come up with a few tips, tricks and activities to help keep my…