DIY Road Trip Games for Preschoolers
This blog article was originally posted on my first blog In Our Pond. I started out trying to put all my travel content on my homeschooling blog, but it grew to be too big. So, I'm moving all the road trip stuff over here! In Our Pond will now be exclusively for homeschooling and parenting content, while this blog (Party Through the USA) is for all the family travel posts. Check them both out!
It's summer time, and we're getting ready for another family road trip. In preparation, I've been making some activities.
I'm obsessed with the I-spy stuff- bottles, books, bags, whatever. I've been wanting to make an i-spy rice bag for quite a while. After I made Dragonfly's space skirt last week, I had some fabric left over. The window is a reused bag like the kind that sheets come in. The orange part is felt (so that I wouldn't have to hem around the window). It ended up being pretty messy, but I'm hoping all those stitches will keep the rice inside. I also plan on attaching a "contents" card to it. In case your wondering what I found to put in it, here's the picture:
These are all buttons from my novelty button collection (I'm a bit obsessed). I even found a sun, moon, Earth, Mars, and Saturn that I think were part of one set. I thought they were perfect for this project. Hopefully, this i-spy bag will buy us some time on a ferry on in a restaurant.
Skimmer loves to spin things. He loves car and train wheels, airplane propellers, the pizza cutter, play dough roller, and DVD cases. Normally, we discourage him from spinning DVDs, so I thought it would be a special treat for him to get to spin them in the car. I modge podge the green paper onto some junk disks and added the numbers and letters for visual interest. I also replaced the cover paper with some fun scrapbook paper to distinguish it from our other movies.
We'll also be taking some games that I made a long time ago- like this tic-tac-toe game. Click here to read the original post.
Other Travel Toys for Preschoolers
It's summer time, and we're getting ready for another family road trip. In preparation, I've been making some activities.
I'm obsessed with the I-spy stuff- bottles, books, bags, whatever. I've been wanting to make an i-spy rice bag for quite a while. After I made Dragonfly's space skirt last week, I had some fabric left over. The window is a reused bag like the kind that sheets come in. The orange part is felt (so that I wouldn't have to hem around the window). It ended up being pretty messy, but I'm hoping all those stitches will keep the rice inside. I also plan on attaching a "contents" card to it. In case your wondering what I found to put in it, here's the picture:
These are all buttons from my novelty button collection (I'm a bit obsessed). I even found a sun, moon, Earth, Mars, and Saturn that I think were part of one set. I thought they were perfect for this project. Hopefully, this i-spy bag will buy us some time on a ferry on in a restaurant.
Skimmer loves to spin things. He loves car and train wheels, airplane propellers, the pizza cutter, play dough roller, and DVD cases. Normally, we discourage him from spinning DVDs, so I thought it would be a special treat for him to get to spin them in the car. I modge podge the green paper onto some junk disks and added the numbers and letters for visual interest. I also replaced the cover paper with some fun scrapbook paper to distinguish it from our other movies.
We'll also be taking some games that I made a long time ago- like this tic-tac-toe game. Click here to read the original post.
Other Travel Toys for Preschoolers
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