How to make a kids travel activity pack
Last Updated on November 8, 2024
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No matter how long or short the journey, keeping kids entertained when traveling can be tough. However, having a kids travel activity pack on hand to entertain your kids when travelling is sure to minimise the amounts of times you’re asked “are we there yet?” or told “I’m bored”.
If you’ve got some travel planned, or just want to take a road trip somewhere and would like your kids to be entertained along the way, then a kids travel activity pack could be just the thing you need.
Here is everything you need to know about kids travel packs, including how to make your own, so you can keep yours, and your kid’s sanity intact.
What is a kids travel activity pack?
A kids travel activity pack is a set of activities that you take with you to keep your kids entertained on a road trip, long haul flight, or anywhere they’ll be seated for sometime, which can also include entertaining kids at a restaurant, in a hotel, or even indoors.
One of the best things about kids travel packs are that they can be customised, you can give different activities to different children depending upon the kind of entertainment they like.
You can also adjust the amount of activities you take on your travels, depending on how long you’ll be travelling for.
You may even decide to keep a spare travel activity pack in your car at all times, just in case you find yourself out somewhere longer than anticipated.
What can you use to hold travel activities?
You can use a variety of different things to hold the travel activities you’ll be taking on your travels, which include:
- Backpacks, perfect if you’re taking a lot of travel activities with you. I use a small Mountain Warehouse backpack to hold my kids travel activities
- Mesh bags and zip lock bags, perfect for holding mini figures, mini Lego sets, pencils, markers, and crayons
- Pencil cases, great for smaller journeys when you only want to take pencils and colouring books with you
- A4 wallets or binders, perfect for flat travel activities like books, colouring books, paper, pencils, and markers
Types of kid’s travel activities
Here are some great ideas of different travel activities that you can combine together for your kids travel activity pack.
Once you’ve chosen what travel activities you like, you’ll put them in the backpack, mesh bag, zip lock bag, pencil case, A4 wallet or binder, or anything else you’ve chosen to hold your travel activities, and give them to your kids during your travels.
Arts and craft travel activities
- Notepad and pen
- Plain paper
- Dot marker books
- Colouring books
- Colouring sets
- Mess free colouring books
- Colouring pencils, markers, and crayons
- Colouring pages like these free ones from Crayola
- Stickers
- Sticker activity books
- Water Wow activity packs (fill the pen with water before leaving home)
- Craft kits
- Scratch art
- Stencils
Book travel ideas
- Toddler books
- Books for primary school aged children
- Educational books such as reading, writing, ABC
- Hidden picture books
- Puzzle books
- Joke books
- How to draw books
- Wipe clean travel books
- Colour by numbers
- Travel journal
Toys and games travel activities
- Mini figures like mini dinosaurs, mini cars, mini people
- Mini Lego sets
- Card games like Uno
- Travel board games, like Connect 4, Guess Who
- Magnetic board games, like bingo, snakes and ladders
- Magnetic drawing board
- Fidget poppers
- Mini puzzles
- Travel scavenger hunt
- Favourite teddy bear
- Comforter
Digital travel activities
- Tablet with your kids favourite games or shows
- Music player
- Audio books
- Noise limiting headphones
Snacks
As well as needing entertainment, kids also seem to get extra hungry when travelling.
If you’d like to add some snacks to your kids travel activity pack, here are some easy road trip snack ideas for kids as well as quick and healthy snack ideas for mums.
I hope you’ve found some travel activities here that you think would entertain your kids on your next adventure, or even during days where you’re stuck at home.
Is there anything here you’ll include in your kids travel activity pack?
