Are you planning a trip? Maybe not, since gas costs are through the roof! But if you need activities to entertain your children in the car and prefer ones that will make awesome family memories, check out this site - Mom's Minivan.
Mom's Minivan has over 101 activities for babies, toddlers, and children of all ages to creatively occupy their hands and minds while building family connections. Some need preparation, so check the site well in advance for those. Then again, some are easy to play on-the-fly. Enjoy!
Our family often sings in the car - a great time to use all those hymns and praise choruses we learn in our Bible lessons. Really! They enjoy it! We also love to listen to audiobooks (most recently - The Princess Bride by William Goldman) and recorded stories (their most favorite ones are Classical Kids).
By the by, we don't own a DVD player for our vehicle. Kids who watch DVDs on family trips are missing out on some great family time! Same goes for those handheld video games. Consider your goals - are you just trying to keep things quiet in the car (which is certainly ok at times!) or can you make the time spent in the car a way to enjoy each other's company?
1 comment:
Lisa-
I just had to stop by and say "hi" since you posted such a nice comment about my journal on my Homeschoolblogger blog (did you find my blog through Holy Experience?)..anyways...I had to giggle over this post...I completely agree with you...DVD players in cars are not necessary...we drove about 3000 miles round trip from our home to the Grand Tetons /Yellowstone NP with 4 kiddos (ages 11, 9, 7 and almost 2) in a "98 Toyota mini-van--that van gave new meaning to the word "mini"...we did it all without hand held games or a DVD player and we only had one argument the whole trip! We listened to The Hobbit on tape and talked to each other...it was fun...so imagine my distress when we went to trade in our old van for a new 8-passenger Toyota Sienna...it is not possible to get one (at least when we got ours) WITHOUT the DVD player!! Ughh! I hate it and thankfully we have only used it in a few extreme instances ... read that as screaming baby #5 could only be only soothed in car with Classical Baby CD -- it plays classical music with animated pictures).
Anyways-
Have a delightful day,
Motherhen
AKA Lola
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