We are taking a couple of road trips his summer, so I've been trying to come up with some ways to "entertain" the girls while driving. Of course, there is the usual portable DVD player, books, music........
The girls love to play games and do arts and crafts, but some of those are to messy for the car, so this is what I came up with......*disclaimer* I'm sure I'm not the first to come with this, in fact some girls and I were talking about something similar to this at the last scrap-camp, this is just my "cheap and easy" version!
* here's what you'll need:
2 or 4 pre-cut plexi glass sheets, 8.5" x 11"
several games printed off on 8.5" x 11" cardstock
2 or 4 med - large rubberbands
dry earse markers
old rag
First, I went to my very helpful and friendly Ace Hardware store and had them cut me 2 pieces of plexi glass into 8.5 x 11 sheets. This only cost $5.20. Then at home, and on white card-stock I printed off several homemade games in my word program. ex. hang man, tic tac toe, mazes, word play, drawing, letter and number practice sheets, road bingo and road sign alphabet to name a few! * disclaimer #2* I know you could use a magna doodle for some of this...... but my girls at age 6 & 7 have out grown those!
Once your sheets are printed, you slide them between your 2 sheets of plexi glass and rubber band the top and bottom so the sheets stay in. All your sheets are in one place and you don't have to worry about them getting bent or lost. The kids use the dry erase markers to fill out each game or draw. When they are finished they just wipe it off and start over. Easy, fun and cheap!
