20+ AWESOME (REAL-KID TESTED) TRAVEL ACTIVITIES FOR KIDS

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This past winter out family of 4 – which includes a 4 year old and a 5 year old – travelled for 4.5 months, from Canada to Florida (and around Florida), to Mexico, and then to England (and around England) and back to Canada.

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Our trip included 4 flights, 3 rental cars, 2 shuttles, a taxi or two, a borrowed Prius and hours and hours and hours of travel time. I’m not kidding when say we really exhausted our search of the best travel activities for kids!

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Even though I realize a lot of parents aren’t looking for screen time activities, I have to say that this was hands down one of the best things we purchased for our trip. When we started talking about the idea of longer-term travel with such young kids, we decided leap pads were a good idea. They are essentially educational tablets with video games for kids.

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This is the last screen based activity, I promise! BUT, just like the leap pad, we were SO GLAD to have an iPad loaded with movies. (We downloaded 10 or so from Disney+ before we left home, and changed them out for 10 different ones half way through the trip when we had watched the first batch a few times each.)

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Our kids got these as a Christmas gift from a favorite baby sitter, and we packed them for our trip. They had SO much fun taking pictures of each other on the plane, an making videos, and showing each other (and us) the pictures and videos.

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