Best Kid Travel Toys
For School-Age Children

Do you want to know the secret of an enjoyable family trip ? It's kid travel toys. Yes, no matter how old your children are, children are children. When they get bored, they can be whinny.

So, make sure to have kid's travel toys in hand when traveling with your school-age children to make the trip more enjoyable and stress-free.

You may ask what kind of fun kid travel toys and games available to entertain your kids and where you can get these kinds of toys from.

Where To Buy

Since kid's travel toys are such specialized toys, this kind of toys can be hard to find locally. Therefore, it is better to get them online on specialized stores since they often carry hard-to-find travel items. One such store is Traveling With Kids which specializes in selling kid's travel gears as well as travel games and toys for kids of all ages. If you are like me, it's very likely that you will find something there to make your family travel easier and more convenient. Furthermore, they have free shipping offer if you spend $75 (not including sale items) and a discount of 15% if you are a military member (use code: YellowRibbon). Therefore, I recommend you to pop into this store prior to your travel with your kids.

One gem I found in that store is a little travel tray, like Taby Tray or Snack and Play Travel Tray which can be attached to your children's booster seat. We found that this little travel table is very helpful to make mealtime easier for your young school-age children, and also comes handy to put all your kid travel games and toys.

Travel Toys and Games Recommendation

For young school-age children, if you want an 'all-in-one' kid travel toys and games, you may want to consider getting a Treasure Bag. This bag contains 10 different activity items, each wrapped like a gift. However, your older school-age children may not like this treasure bag since it's going to be a bit too baby-ish for them. For them, we recommend A Backseat Survival Kit which contains equally fun activities, but not too baby-ish.

Here are our recommendation on the best kid travel toys and games for school-age children (for age 6-12 years).

• books.
  
  
• electronic games , an iPod, a CD player or other electronic gadgets.
  
  
• stuffed animal or puppets.
  
  
• crayon and paper or coloring books. For a no-mess coloring/drawing activity, you may want to purchase an all-in-one coloring book and crayon, called Color Scroller designed specifically for travel. Alternatively, for a more fun coloring activity, you may want to get A Bumpity Coloring Book. This set comes with a coloring book, crayons and rubbing plates with a variety of fun patterns, so your child will end up with pictures which 'pop up' and have both textures and nice patterns.
  
  
• kid travel games, for instance:
  • Magnetic Hangman or Magnetic Picture Bingo by Imaginetics, which are available at Traveling With Kids Store.
  • Children Card Games carried by another kid travel shop, Madallie. To view this item, click here, then go to 'wild games' menu, and click on page 4.
  • A variety of magnetic travel games, such as magnetic checker games, magnetic chess, magnetic slide and ladder, and so forth, by eeBoo, carried by Madallie. To buy these travel games, click here, then go to 'wild games' menu, and see page 1 and 2.
  
  
  
• No mess travel 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 Chicken Socks travel craft selection. However, we think that not all of their collection is a no-mess craft. Totally Tape, Fun With Felt and Amazing Lacing Activity Book do not create any mess, so we recommend them for travel activity. For more choice of lacing cards, there are some award-winning ones made by eeBoo, which you can get from another online kid travel store, Madallie. To buy these, click here then go to 'busy craft' menu, and see page 1
  
  
• Sticker activity.
  For sticker book, we recommend The Sticker Book. This set has a whooping 450 stickers, so your kid will have a good time sticking all the stickers to the book and make a nice picture out of them.
  Alternatively, if your child loves imaginative play, you may want to have a look at play scene and sticker set by Mudpuppy from another online travel shop, Madallie. To get the play scene set, click here, then go to 'wild games' menu and see page 2 and 3.
  
  
• activity books such as The Amazing Book-a-ma-thing for the Backseat
  
  
• Invisible pen activities. Traveling With Kids store has a good selection of invisible pen activity books from Lee Publication which prove to be very popular for entertaining kids during long travel. The classic Yes & Know Books is very entertaining for kids 7 years old or older, whereas other sets, such as: Magic Mazes, Disney Cars Invisible Ink and Magic Pen, Disney Princess Magic Pen & Invisible Ink, Finding Nemo , and Dot to Dot are suitable for preschoolers and school-age kids up to age of 8 year old.
  
  
• Magnetic toys, such as:
  • Magnetic Pattern Blocks by Melissa and Doug which is designed specifically for travel.
    
    
  • Magnetic play scene toys for imaginative play. These kid travel toys contain of a variety of magnets and several different scene pictures, so kids use the magnets for creating different scenes. Traveling with Kids store carries two kinds of products of this nature, Imaginetics product and Magnetic Fun Tin product by Lee Publication. We prefer the Fun Tin products because the scene picture is printed inside the tin, and the magnet is meant to be played inside the tin, hence the magnetic pieces are better contained. Here is a sample of the Magnetic Fun Tins. For a complete list of these products, go to Traveling With Kids website, and search for Fun Tin by Lee Publication.
    
    
  • Dress up or mix-and-match magnetic toys. Young school-age kids will love these magnetic dress up or mix-and-match toys. These toys let them create princesses or dolls wearing different dresses, or they can make different kinds of Mr. Potato Head
  
  
  
• Magnetic construction toys, such as:
  • Jumbonetics, a magnetic construction set carried by Traveling With Kids store 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 Magnetic Magic Shapes with Board
  • Magna-Tiles Clear Colors set. These color tiles have magnet at each side, so your kids can create both flat or 3D construction. To play these in a car, you would need to install a travel tray.

Happy traveling !

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