What Are The Best
Children Travel Toys For Preschoolers ?

Children travel toys are one important ingredient of an enjoyable and non-stressful family trip. Without them, children can be bored and become whinny.

The question is, what kind of fun children travel toys you should buy to entertain preschoolers and where you can get these kinds of toys from.

One of the traveling gear I found very handy in assisting us with travel is a little car seat table, like Snack and Play Travel Tray which can be attached to your children's car seat or booster seat, available from a specialized online travel store, Traveling With Kids. This little travel tray is very helpful to make mealtime easier, and can also be used to put all your children travel toys and games.

Travel Toys and Games Recommendation

If you want an 'all-in-one' children travel toys and games, you may want to consider getting Treasure Bag. This bag is really a treasure, since it contains 10 different toy items, each wrapped like a gift. Your preschooler will be delighted to unwrap the toys one by one and play with them. Therefore, I highly recommend you to get this if you want to save the money and time.

Now, what are the best preschooler travel toys and games ?

Here are our recommendation on the best children travel games and toys (for age 3-6 years).

• books to look at.
  
  
• etch the sketch magna doodle for scribbling activity.
  
  
• stuffed animal or puppets.
  
  
• crayon and paper or coloring book. Although any coloring book and crayon will do, there is an all-in-one coloring book and crayon, called Color Scroller designed specifically for travel. You may want to look at it and decide whether this children travel toy is worth buying. In addition, for a more fun coloring activity, you may want to get Bumpity Coloring Book . This set comes with a coloring book, crayon and rubbing plates with a variety of fun patterns. The end result is a picture which will 'pop up' and has both textures and nice patterns.
  
  
• play dough.
  
  
• paper and tape/sticker. We like Totally Tape from Klutz. It entertains young preschoolers (3 and 4 year old) particularly well. If your preschooler loves sticker instead, we recommend these..
  
  
• No mess craft activity. Klutz has a good selection of travel craft activities, and this company is giving a free backpack if you buy two of their travel craft selection. However, we think that not all of their collection is a no-mess craft. Totally Tape, Fun with Felt or Amazing Lacing Activity Book .For more choice of lacing cards, you can see some award-winning ones made by eeBoo, which you can get from here
  
  
• activity books for preschoolers, including activity books with invisible pen.
  Lee Publication publishes a bunch of invisible ink activity books which prove to be very popular for entertaining kids during long travel. Most of them are suitable for 5 year old and up working independently. For smaller preschooler, we recommend Dot to Dot book from Lee Publsihing.
  
  
• Play Scene set for imaginative play.
  • Magnetic toys for imaginative play. These children travel toys contain of cute magnets and several different scenes for imaginative play. Both Imaginetics product and Magnetic Fun Tin by Lee Publication can be used for this purpose.
  • Play scene and sticker set for pretend play by Mudpuppy; available from here. Your preschooler can stick a variety of stickers to the cardboard play scene and use them for pretend play.
  
  
  
• Magnetic toys, such as:
  • Chicken Socks Magnetic A to Z Activity Book which contains A to Z magnets along with an activity book to be used with these magnets.
  • Melissa & Doug Deluxe Wooden Magnetic Pattern Blocks Set
  • Dress up or mix-and-match magnetic toys. Your preschoolers will love to dress up princesses, bears, and so forth, with different magnetic dresses. To view the dress up toys, click here. Alternatively, if your preschooler is Mr. Potato Head's fans, then s/he can create different kinds of Mr. Potato Head with Imaginetics Mr & Mrs Potato Head Magnetic Toys In addition, your preschoolers can also create different robots, monsters, ballerina, and so forth with Mudpuppy magnetic mix and match toys

In addition to what we recommend above, your preschooler may enjoy magnetic construction toys such as:

• Jumbonetics and Magneatos, a "jumbo" magnetic construction set which is suitable for young children. The pieces don't pose a choking hazard and are easy to grab by little hands since each piece has reasonably big size. This toy can be played easily in the car as long as you install a small table at the car seat.
  
  
• Edushape Magic Shape.
  These toys are versatile and can be used not only as a magnetic construction toys, but also during bath. They're also quiet, and being magnetic, can be used while traveling. We also would like to recommend to use travel tray or magnetic tray when playing this during traveling.

Happy traveling !

** NOTE: Do you want to keep up-to-date with children's toys-related issues ? Then subscribe to our FREE monthly newsletter 'Play, Learn and Grow' and receive a FREE bonus ebook on 'Toy Shopping Guide'.

Click here to subscribe to our newsletter and claim the 'Toy Shopping Guide' for free

Related articles

• Tips to Choose the Best Travel Toys for All Ages
• Baby Travel Toys
• Toddler Travel Toys
• Travel Toys for Kids

From Preschool Children Travel Toys to Homepage.