Traveling for ThanksGiving??

Thanksgiving is just around the corner and you know what that means … get out the fat pants! No, I mean ROADTRIP! It is that time of year when we all pile in the car with our suitcases, non-perishable Thanksgiving dinner contributions, and the dog and head out to Grandma’s House for Thanksgiving dinner. Since we’ve made the Thanksgiving Roadtrip to Iowa every year for 10 years, I thought I would pass along a few tips that my family relies on to make the trip go a little easier.

Roadtrip Car Essentials:

Snacks - No messy or crumbly snacks. Unless you want to start an all-you-can-eat snack bar under the back seats. Little, individual size snack bags work perfect. Grapes are good, easy to eat and no peel to worry about. No juice boxes. Put drinks in drip-proof sippy cups or sports bottles so they don’t leak or get squirted everywhere. Tip: If you end up eating breakfast in the car as you head out, make sure you don’t order anything with biscuits. They crumble everywhere! I’m talking to you Sausage, Egg & Cheese Biscuit.

Water Bottles – Always have a bottle of water in the car. Even if you don’t drink it, it’s nice to be able to rinse off your hands or that binky that fell in the back seat and is now wearing a dog hair fur coat.

Garbage Bag – Always have a bag in the car to throw out trash. Trust us, you don’t want to hold a snotty Kleenex or ketchup covered wrapper or banana peel for 4 hours. (Been there. Done that. Not fun.)
Pillows, Snuggle Buddies, or Neck Wraps – If the stars are aligned and Holiday fortune is smiling on you, your young kids will fall asleep for awhile. (When they are older, they put their iPod headphones on and they may as well be asleep.) While most kids are resilient and flexible, they shouldn’t have to kiss their navel while they are napping. Give them some support.

Antibacterial Wipes/Hand Sanitizer – You have kids. Need I say more?

Boredom Bag – You’ll need plenty of entertainment to keep the kids (and adults) amused during the long car trip. In my next post, I’ll share some ideas on how to fill that Boredom Bag for younger and older kids.

What items do you take on your Holiday Road Trips that you can’t live without?

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I always love it when I find things about traveling. It gets new ideas rolling in my head of what Iam going to do to entertain the girls! We have a 8-9 hour trip to Grandma and Grandpas for ThanksGiving. I know Doodle at 5 1/2 years still has a hard time not getting bored and Bug at 22 months hates to be traped in the car seat for a long time, SO I always need to help figuring out what to entertain them with!

Keep kids busy in the Car!

Here's a few Ideas to keep your Kids busy in the car!

I decorated clip boards for both Girls. Then, instead of  hauling around coloring books I

clipped on some pages I tore out of coloring books and that I had printed from online.

They love playing with magnets so I snatched some from the $1 store along with some of these magnet boards. And then added some Laminated Sight words that I had in the activity closet.

Here's a few other things added: Sunglasses, Crayons, a few fav. toys, some books, a mirror and some snacks!

They were excited to find the little boxes in the middle of their seats when we got in the car for our trip!

A Barrell of Monkeys were in there also, and that was a big hit!

I love to hit up the $1 store before going on a trip for some fun unusual things to keep the girls entertained. And if they get ruined Oh well, it was only a dollar!

Travel Pillows

Doodle Loved this pillow! She picked out the Fabric and the ribbon that she wanted me to use! Then later that night she was so excited about it that she wanted to sleep with it!
The finished product, my pics keep loading backwards so just bear with me!

Fabric covering the size of the pillow to show how much I would need to make the pillow case big enough!

I stole one of my hubbys pillows the one that was on the bottom of the stack of three, and YES I did ask for permission. I wanted to make these pillows so that we could use them to travel with next week. I took a pillow and just cut it in half with regular scissors, then had to kindof tear the stuffing a little. Then I sewed it shut with my sewing machine.

The next step was to pick out what faric to use and Doodle did a great job of picking out the fabric that she wanted on her pillow. I measured the fabric by wrapping it around the pillow and leaving just a little extra to sew it.

I think it turned out GREAT and it was a fun inexpensive project that didnt cost be anything cause I had all the supplies at home!

WARNING: Most of my sewing projects I do not even use a measuring tape on, I just EYEBALL it and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesnt. I love to look at other people's ideas and come up with a similar idea but add a new twist of my own! So I hope you enjoy this blog as it is a new adventure to share with others what I do and How I do it.