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Travel Tips and Tricks
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items Creative ideas to make travel more enjoyable, efficient, and stress-free.
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Essentials for flying with a toddler
Tricks to make a family road trip fun and easy
Essentials for staying in a hotel with a toddler
Essentials for flying with a toddler
When traveling on a plane with a toddler, it's important to pack items that ensure comfort, entertainment, and convenience for both you and your child. Here's a list of clever items to bring to keep them occupied, no matter how long the flight:
Keep snacks neatly arranged, prevent spills, and make it easy to access food during the flight without creating a mess!
Stackable Food Storage Containers
Designed to prevent liquids from spilling, reducing messes and stress, it's a game changer!
Munchkin Cool Cat Sippy Cup
Offer both comfort and safety during travel with child-size headphones! These can be connected with both 3.5 mm and Bluetooth and volume level can be controlled by the parents.
Kids Bluetooth Headphones
A great tool for keeping toddlers engaged and entertained during long flights! Also helps stimulate development, fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination.
Montessori Busy Board
Mess-free entertainment that's reusable! These don't leave residue or damage surfaces, and they are a quiet activity that can keep kids entertained during long flights.
Reusable Vehicle Sticker Book
Make any long flight more comfortable for your little one. Lightweight and easy to install, it makes both play and sleeping easier and more convenient.
Airplane Bed & Seat Extender
In day to day life, limiting screen time is important. On a long flight, it's a great source of distraction and entertainment!
Kids Tablet
Lollipops are the most effective way to help toddlers manage ear popping during takeoff and landing on a plane.
Sugar Free Lollipops
Read this book in the days before the flight to familiarize your little one with what to expect. Prepping a toddler for flying is important to ensure a smoother, less stressful travel experience for both the child and the parents.
We are Going on an Airplane: A Prep Book
Wipe-clean activity books are a fantastic travel companion for toddlers. They can be use repeatedly and there's no mess!
Wipe Clean Preschool Activity Book
Comes in a small, resealable case that helps keep the crayons organized and easy to carry. Perfect for coloring activities during a long flight.
Crayons with Crayon Box
Combining sensory play with interactive features, the colorful lights and suction cups ensure your little one stays entertained for a good while!
Telescopic Suction Cup Giraffe Toy
Not just for bath time! Your little one can stick them on the window, the seat and the wall for endless entertainment!
Suction Cup Toys
Stickers are the best! These “puffy” stickers are reusable and come with a little scene to put them on.
Reusable Puffy Sticker Wild Adventures Play Set
A great toy for keeping toddlers entertained during travel. Small and light, they are ideal for bringing on board!
Suction Cup Spinner Toys
Magnetic tiles are always a hit! These travel size ones are perfect for occupying your little one during a long flight.
Mini Magnetic Tiles
Don't fret over your little one making a mess all over the airplane, these markers only work on paper!
Mess Free Coloring Set
Helps keep your toddler’s food and drinks contained, preventing crumbs, stains, or spills from getting onto the airplane seat or tray.
Tray Table Cover with Pockets
Tricks to make a family road trip fun and easy
Making a road trip enjoyable, especially with kids, requires a little preparation and creativity. Here are some ideas to keep your little one entertained for miles!
This table makes it easy to do all sorts of activities in the car!
Kids Car Seat Lap Tray
Get organized and ensure that you have enough activities to last the entire road trip!
Backseat Car Organizer
Incredibly useful tool for keeping your toddler entertained and engaged during a road trip!
Mini Tablet with Shockproof Case
Collapsible for easy storage. The perfect spot for all the snacks!
Snack Trunk Cooler Bag
A simple, effective way to enhance both the safety and comfort of your little one while traveling. Also ensures that the sun doesn't wake them up if they fall asleep!
Car Window Shade
Encourage your little one's creativity and imagination during the road trip.
Magnetic Drawing Board Toy
Water filled pen makes for little to no mess! Very easy to use and super fun for your little one.
Water Drawing Mat
Busy book to the rescue!
Busy Book
Excellent distraction for kids during road trips. Simple but effective!
Poppers Push Bubble Toy
These notepads use a water pen to reveal colorful pictures and designs when the pen is used to "paint" over the pages. Once the water dries, the design fades, and the page can be used again.
Reusable Water-Reveal Activity Pad
No screen time, only educational entertainment!
My First Learning Tablet
Encourage your little one to touch and explore during the road trip.
Touch and Feel Sensory Board Book
Turns a normal cup holder into a practical table for snacks or activities.
Car Seat Tray
Snacks, snacks and even more snacks!
Snacks
Essentials for staying in a hotel with a toddler
Traveling with a toddler can be an exciting but challenging adventure, especially when staying in a hotel. Here are some products to make it easier!
Provides a cozy and familiar sleeping space for your toddler, ensuring better sleep in an unfamiliar environment.
Travel Folding Floor Cot
The blackout material blocks out light, creating a dark and soothing space for your toddler to sleep, even during daytime naps or in bright hotel rooms.
Blackout Tent for Pack n Play and Crib
Hotels can be noisy with sounds like hallway conversations, slamming doors, or traffic. A white noise machine helps drown out these disruptions, creating a more calming environment.
Portable White Noise Sound Machine
Portable blackout curtains block out natural sunlight and artificial lights, helping your child sleep better.
Portable Blackout Curtains
Designed to fit most standard-sized toilets, it ensures your toddler feels secure and comfortable when using unfamiliar bathrooms.
Folding Travel Potty Training Seat
Provides a secure and familiar seat for your toddler, making mealtime more enjoyable and stress-free.
Portable High Chair
Inflatable bed rails provide a safe barrier that prevents your toddler from rolling off the bed during sleep, especially in unfamiliar hotel rooms with larger beds.
Inflatable Bed Rail
An inflatable baby bathtub is a fantastic solution when staying in a hotel or Airbnb that doesn't have a bathtub.
Inflatable Baby Bathtub