Share Your Travel Tips to Win Travel Toys!
By: Colleen Lanin, The Travel MamaMarch 30th, 2010
Do you have a great tip for traveling with kids? Share it and you could win $20 from KidsTravelHappy.com, a site that specializes in UNplugged toys, games, books, activities, and unique gear for real and imaginary journeys. This contest ends on Wednesday, March 31 at 11:59 pm Pacific Standard Time. You can check back tomorrow for another chance to win a gift certificate from Kids Travel Happy as part of the Travel Mamas Anniversary Prize A Day Giveaway.
I have been posting a new Quick Tip on the Travel Mamas home page approximately five times per week since I launched TravelMamas.com one year ago. That totals 260 tips! Of course, it only occurred to me one month ago to post some of these as blog posts. Think of all of those travel tips that I just threw away! Well, hopefully you’ll send me some great ideas to share with other Travel Mamas and Travel Daddies for future Quick Tips posts!
For more tips on travel with kids, check out the Travel Tips page for advice on:
• Air Travel
• Budget Travel
• Eating on the Go
• Health & Safety
• Road Trips
• Sanity Saving & Time Savoring Tips
• Sleep Tips
• Visiting Family & Friends
What You Could Win
To celebrate the Travel Mamas one-year anniversary, Monday through Friday of this week (March 29 – April 2, 2010) you can win prizes from KidsTravelHappy.com for voting for your favorite “something” on Travel Mamas (such as your favorite: feature, blog post, travel tip, travel trivia question, and guest blog post). The prizes will increase in value each day. Every time you enter, you will automatically be entered to win the grand prize $50 KidsTravelHappy.com gift certificate and a pack of goodies from the Travel Mamas Store to be awarded this Saturday, April 3, 2010.
Today you can vote for your favorite Travel Mamas blog post to win a $20 KidsTravelHappy.com gift certificate. You can also save 20% at KidsTravelHappy.com. Simply use the special check-out code just for Travel Mamas, TMSD20. The code is valid on any purchase of $20 or more now through April 3, 2010.
Here’s just one sample of what you could buy with your gift certificate and/or discount!
The Little Experience Create It, Stitch It, or Knit It Kits
These kits come with everything needed to make these fun crafts. There’s no need to worry… do I have the scissors? Glue? Knitting needles? Yarn? There are simpler kits for age three and up, more complicated kits for age eight and up, and many in between. Create It, Stitch It, or Knit It Kits are appropriate for all types of travel, but a travel tray of some sort helps keep things organized.
Enter to Win
THIS CONTEST HAS ENDED. ENTER THURSDAY’S CONTEST NOW! You can enter today’s contest a total of two times. This contest ends at 11:59 pm Pacific Standard Time on Wednesday, March 31, 2010. The winner will be selected at random using Random.org and will be notified by email. If no response is received within 48 hours, the first winner will forfeit the prize and another entrant will be selected. Here’s how to enter:
REQUIRED ENTRY - Add a comment below with your favorite travel tip.
BONUS ENTRY – Tweet this contest. Copy and paste the following phrase into Twitter. Be sure to add a second comment to this post with a link to your tweet.
Share your travel tips on @TravelMamas to WIN $20 for travel toys from @KidsTravelHappy
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we play games along the ride. we do alphabet games that educate! i will start with an A animal and then we rotate! Its alot of fun. Another game we made up is when we want for xmas or birthday…and its a guessing game.
Pack an emergency kit just in case your child becomes ill. Some items to include are pain reliever, band-aids, and a thermometer.
When I travel with my kids, I chose locations that offer bus tours which pick us up at our hotel and deliver us to local amusement parks (such as Disneyland). The groups from tour buses don’t wait in line. They’re taken straight to the head of the line and my kids can’t argue about which ride to go on first because the rides are picked out beforehand by the organizers of the tour.
Don’t overdue it when packing toys, books, etc… the stuff gets too heavy and bringing too much stuff is annoying and creates stress. You will not use it! Kids can find the interesting ways to entertain them selves in new situations and places ie; things at the sirport, hotel lobbys, etc…Our kids always seem to find other kids and so they are busy making friends instead of playing with the 15 toys we brought:)
When I travel with my little gal, I make sure to have healthy snacks in the car. I’ll never forget the time we got stuck for 90 minutes behind some road construction! We all got hungry and I was so glad that I packed some extra snacks for the trip! Thanks.
Tweet, thanks!
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When traveling with young’uns, always, always leave early to mid evening, ESPECIALLY by car. Eat on the road and most times, kiddies will sleep through the night. You could be more than half way to where you are going by the time they wake and then potty & breakfast, some snack, easy to read books or illustrations for the really tots. In vehicle DVD or portable DVD is great too!
We have a special chldren’s size carry-on that my little boy will fill with new toys he can play with on the plane. Our portable dvd player with is favorite dvd’s will help (I hope) as well
Before the kids we would drive until we couldn’t drive anymore or saw a neat place to stop. Now we plan the drive around places to eat and kid friendly hotels. We try to stop at gas stations that also serve Truckers because they are friendly and have more areas of grass for some running around. Normally, after three-five days in a car those stops are what make the difference. Plus, we travel with two large dogs so we have to be child and pet travel wise…
OMGosh, don’t even think about leaving the driveway without books on tape! Entertain the kids for the entire trip!
Leaving today on a ROAD TRIP with my two little ones and here is what I have packed – LOW SUGAR snacks – you don’t want them getting more anty then they already are. SURPRISE activity books – something they have not seen – books on tape, DS games (2 new ones) coloring books for a coloring “contest” – and the OLD STAND by if things get wild – a portable DVD and movie. I always save that for when it gets dark in the car.
Another great tip for keeping the kids entertained are the craft pipe cleaners – take up hardly any space and you can challenge each other to make different shapes, or animals and for an added bit of fun make it comepetitive – ‘first to make a cat’ – then have a laugh at the results.
I love all of these great tips! The “what do I want for Christmas” guessing game sounds like a lot of fun! And I will definitely need to try out the pipe cleaner contests when my youngest gets a wee older!
Thank you to everyone who entered the contest! A winner has been selected at random and has been notified via email. If I don’t receive a response from the winner within 48 hours, that person will forfeit the prize and a second entrant will be selected.