I recently wrote a post about traveling with children, but there I generally talked about how we managed to do it with three babies.

Today I would like to do useful post for everyone who dared to travel with children.

Returning from Anapa, we were shaking on the train for almost two days and we were not the only people on the train who were traveling with children.

The most popular and simple entertainment is to put a cartoon on a laptop for a child and let him sit and watch.

I personally have nothing against cartoons, I show it to children myself, but it is obvious that a child of two years old is still extremely undesirable to watch for more than forty minutes.

What to do the rest of the time? And can it be done with real benefit for the baby?

Let's put together a "magic suitcase of joy" for a child on a trip.

If I go somewhere with a child, then I always prepare for the fact that he will have to be entertained, so I take toys with me.

The best option is to buy new toys and books for the trip and show them to the child only on the road.

What to take for a child six months to two years old:

1. Sling beads with toys

A very convenient piece for travel, it takes up space only on your neck.

Most of all, I like the beads made up of tied beads with small knitted toys.

Small children love to gnaw and crush them in their little hands. You can order from any craftswoman you like on the Internet.

2. Children's book with waterproof pages

Now they make wonderful children's toy books for the little ones.

We have had several such indestructible books with wonderful illustrations.

In the most beloved, the cardboard base is applied to a polymer base. Warm floors in the nursery are also made from such material. It is very difficult to chew on such. This is important for parents of beaver toddlers who violently gnaw out ordinary cardboard books.

There are fabric options or completely waterproof options. You need to choose something that will captivate your baby.

3. "Quiet" musical educational toy

Almost all children like light and music toys.

For example, a completely win-win form is a telephone with buttons and sounds. For babies, they are specially made quiet, so they will not disturb the passengers.

I always take educational toys, on which there are a lot of all sorts of bells and whistles - rustlers, rattles, nozzles.

All these "treasures" can be put in a soft, bright backpack or a kid's handbag with ties. Toddlers are very fond of taking out and putting back various items, so the purse can become a separate toy.

What to take for a child from two to five years old:

There is more room for imagination. The child can already be carried away by some kind of soulful pursuits.

1. Coloring and washable crayons. Books with stickers

Ideally, if the crayons are in some kind of plastic box. You can put them in a small food container.

Why not markers? It is possible, but even washable ones can leave too bright marks, and the caps are very easily lost.

Crayons are easier - they are soft and dry.

Another great form of entertainment is sticker books.

You can take a sticker book where you need to stick it on assignments. Or you can take separate stickers and an empty album.

Let the child compose "collages" himself.

2. Children's lotto and small puzzles

There is also a wide scope for imagination here - most of all I like wooden puzzles on a substrate, from which you need to put a picture.

In-ear puzzles are suitable for smaller children. It's easier there - just pick it up by size.

On a trip, you can take a plastic loto with animals or vegetables and fruits.

It may not be possible to keep the child busy for an hour, but it is quite possible to sit for fifteen to twenty minutes at this exciting game.

3. Children's Playdough Playdo with some kind of modeling kit

This plasticine, although it is probably more appropriate to call it a modeling dough, is the coolest.

Recently I opened chic sets with which you can create all sorts of interesting things. Various molds, carved cutting knives and other artifacts will keep children busy for a long time.

After the game, the plasticine is put into plastic cups and, in general, all this wealth is compactly packed.

4. Tablet

Maybe someone will say a word against, but I do not see anything terrible in children's applications on the tablet.

There are incredibly beautiful and at the same time educational games. My children and at home sometimes play. True, no more than twenty minutes, as the great and terrible Komarovsky bequeathed.

I really like books that come to life and various alphabets.

Of course, all of these methods work if the child is quite assiduous. I suppose that it will not be so easy for active specimens a la "shylo-pop" to sit down folding some loto.

Active children are difficult to keep in place. In this case, they can be captivated by the views from the window. You can tell some interesting stories about the places that you pass. Yes, and no one has forbidden walks to neighboring cars.

During the day, passengers are usually very supportive of the little ones, it is important to walk back and forth along the corridor.

In general, it is important to alternate the child's mental activity with motor activity. Do not forcibly keep in place, give the opportunity to "walk", then imperceptibly carry away some kind of game.

Probably more important is not so much the set of games as the attitude of the parents themselves.

Children absorb our mood like sponges, so it is important to be relaxed and not worry too much about the upcoming trip.

When we were traveling with the little ones, everything was pretty smooth. The older three-year-old mostly looked out the window, listened to a book, painted and spied on cartoons from neighbors.

And the twins liked to walk and stare at people more.

But I know that now, when I decide to go with older children, I will definitely collect for everyone "Magic chest of joy".

Although, perhaps, I will not go by train at all, but will go to Momondo and with a generous hand I will buy air tickets for the whole family. Who knows?

However, something tells me that maybe this summer I will decide on a similar trip with the whole cheerful family.

It's much easier with older children. They can read books themselves. And they can also be occupied with an interesting thing - the creation of a travel notebook. Let them write down some of their thoughts on the journey, collect tickets, unusual candy wrappers and paste them into a notebook.

They may be trying to sketch some road scenes. It's okay if all this looks crooked and naive. After a while, the child will revise his notebook and remember the trip.

By the way, instead of chocolates, you can take along various dairy and nut bars and baby cookies.

Another good thing is special train hammock ... With its help, you can create safe conditions for a child on a narrow shelf, as well as visually isolate from the rest of the space, especially if you are traveling in a reserved seat, not a compartment.

It looks like a kind of mosquito net on the belts, but it looks like you need to take it. The main plus is that you can not be afraid that the child will roll onto the floor in a dream.

This concludes my listing of items for all-encompassing children's entertainment on long trips.

One way or another, a lot of people travel with children on trains. Yes, this experience is not always positive because all children are different. But in general, if there is a mood for the trip, the parents are mentally prepared and have collected the necessary entertaining things - everything should go smoothly.

Do not forget that everything is new for a child on a journey, and sometimes improvised materials become the best toys: spoons, mugs or an incredibly alluring mother's cosmetic bag.

Write in the comments what else you can take with you on the train for children?

Hello everyone!

After two years, making a child sit in one place for more than a minute is almost unrealistic, all the time you need a game and some kind of entertainment, I don’t know about everyone else, but my daughter is like that. What can I say about trips .. It's boring in a car seat, looking out the window too, a soft toy no longer helps. Then I wondered what to give her so that she would behave calmly and not distract my mother. That's how I came across the Babytravelbox service. ru, which produces travel backpacks for children of different ages. What else is great here - there is a division by year and gender. And most importantly, you don't have to go shopping and think what to buy your child for entertainment on the road or on vacation, everything has already been done for us, parents.

To place an order, you need to select the child's gender and age, you can pay either in cash to the courier or to a Sberbank card.

The box was delivered to me very quickly, the courier brought it. It turned out to be heavy by weight) looks like this.

You can order both a large backpack and a mini version for 1700 rubles.

We stopped at a large one, I propose to see what turned out to be inside (I ordered for a girl from 2-4 years old). On the babytravelbox website, you can see the content in the picture, in general terms it describes what will be expected in a particular backpack, depending on the age and gender of the child.

It is very simple to place an order, fill in the fields and click Order.

I honestly did not expect such an amount of everything!

It's like a surprise box, only there are sweets, and here are children's joys) and, of course, the variety of items that will definitely not leave indifferent any child during travel, travel, flights, etc. is amazing. Recently they just took this backpack with them on vacation, one might say, thanks to him, it was a success, since the baby was busy playing most of the time. Every day I put different things in there so that she would not get bored of the same thing.

All the contents were compactly packed into a cute red backpack. He turned out to be a little too big for his daughter, but the very idea and execution are interesting.

My daughter, as she saw, enthusiastically began to disclose and examine everything. I myself am like a child, with her I was carried away by this process. So, I show you what we got!

Describe in detail what I'm not going to do, because there are a lot of things here, I will briefly tell you what especially interested the child.

Of course, a yellow glowing hedgehog! Probably, any kid would be delighted with him, he is soft, which allows him to be used not only in the game, but also as an anti-stress watermelon is also interested.

Wooden constructor. Quite a fascinating thing, although we have not yet reached its coloring.

Puzzle-mosaic of 12 elements based on the cartoon Buratino. My daughter coped with the task pretty quickly.

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Modeling clay 2 colors. We already have a similar one, this one was left untouched for later.

Kaleidoscope camera. This little thing has become one of my favorites, my daughter now does not part with her for a minute, she helps out great on the road)

Sorter cube and cups pyramid.

Thanks to such things, the child can get acquainted with both shapes and colors, in a word, a must-have for kids.

The figure board is also good for learning about colors as well as getting to know these same figures.

Fingertips in the form of a bear and a parrot. For role-playing games - that's it!

Spring rainbow. In my childhood, too, I had one somewhere, even preserved, I probably remember, I loved to play it, my daughter also liked it, although I tangled the springs with each other a couple of times.

The lion cub is groovy. We already have almost the same, it will not be superfluous)

Sneaker lacing is good for fine motor development. Wallet with coins inside. I was glad of this, because she always tries to steal my) ..

Hygiene kit, which includes wet wipes, sanitizer, earplugs and .. sleep mask. She took away all the necessary and useful things on the road.

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Inertial machine. We just recently broke down a similar one, this one came across just in time.

Butterfly stickers, 2 packs. Something, but my daughter adores stickers. Moreover, both stick and peel off later. And if they are with butterflies, then this is doubly delight. Half have already been pasted wherever they go)

Glue pencil and scissors came in handy for crafts with colored paper, paper clips, colored sticks, adhesives and other small toys while I removed so as not to lose. In the future, and they will go into action

And the most important thing is a safety bracelet.

The beads contain numbers, from which you need to add the parent's phone number, then collect them on a string and tie them on the baby's wrist.

The filling is excellent, I think there is a use for everything, most of the items have already been actively used. The time for such hobbies passes imperceptibly, the child is happy and the parents are given free moments of calm, so necessary on vacation. The backpack is also suitable for everyday activities, you can put change clothes or shoes, water, and much more there! Fortunately, the spaciousness allows.

Here you can find everything and even more both for toddlers up to one year old, older children and schoolchildren.

Price: 3000 r

Thank you for your attention 💛

Is a set of different interesting gizmos: beads, stickers, books, pencils, puzzles, cars, dolls, travel finds that will help parents travel with their baby. The main idea of \u200b\u200bthe creators of the project: time is priceless, and you should not waste it on shopping trips, when you can go to the site, fill out an application in a minute and get an individual set. After all, many do not have time to collect such boxes on their own, and someone does not know what a child is interested in at a certain age.

Anna Maslennikova, author of the project: “The box is not a magic wand, you still need to look after small children. For some reason, many people think that with Korobochka you can forget about the child. Until the age of three, I leave information to everyone that they need to stay close to the child. And yes, with the smallest ones it is the hardest of all, because children have their own mood, so there are a lot of elements in the Korobochka so that the child is definitely interested in something. When I am asked at what age you can use it, I answer that you can use it from 5-6 months. "

The set is assembled based on three main parameters:
- age (from 0 to 13 years old)
- gender
- place of use.

There are three different sets, differing in the number and cost of elements, so that everyone can choose the most suitable Box in terms of cost and duration of travel.

You can order a set on the website. After completing the application, the project staff contact the client, send a small questionnaire with questions about the child's preferences.

The cost of the box is from 1,400 to 2,500 rubles.

Came up with a project journalist and mother Anna Maslennikova: “As our son grew older, it became more difficult to entertain him on airplanes. Aeroflot has been providing toys since the age of three, and my son was 9 months old. Yes, for a long time and successfully there are boxes with toys for development. It's funny, but I found out about their existence after I decided to take a box from under my son's shoes and put something there that could just distract him.The idea came after an unsuccessful flight from Moscow to Israel. Dima's husband, an entrepreneur, said that the idea was excellent and that we should take it up.

I wrote in social networks that I needed mothers with experience of traveling with children, gathered 15 people and interviewed everyone. And then I made a list of those things that experienced mothers use. I added my own life hacks and passed the Box around for testing. They wrote to me what came up, what didn't, and I corrected everything in parallel.

Now I continue to travel, bring the Box to other countries (Israel, America, Georgia, Italy, Norway). Recently, they have expanded across Russia, there have been deliveries to Vladivostok, Arkhangelsk, Yekaterinburg, Kaliningrad, and orders from St. Petersburg are running parallel to Moscow. Having a choice, the child will put down the iPad for an hour and study the contents of the Box. "

The newborn requires special living conditions from the parents, in which he will be comfortable and cozy. Immediately after the baby is born, he can buy a sling in the online store "MayMal". He will allow the baby to remain in close contact with her mother, even when she has a lot to do. As soon as the toddler learns to sit, he can buy a kangaroo backpack. Thanks to him, moms and dads will be able to live in their usual rhythm of life, and their child will discover a new world for themselves with their parents.

The car bottle warmer will allow parents to feed their babies with milk from a bottle or formula even on the trip. It is very convenient, does not require filling the container with water and connects to the cigarette lighter socket. As soon as complementary feeding begins, you can take a baby thermos for food with you on the road. Thanks to him, the baby will always be well fed with healthy and prepared food at the optimum temperature.

In order for the baby to always be convenient to take with you on a visit, a clinic or a pharmacy, you must definitely buy a carry cot for newborns. It has a hard bottom and sturdy sides and is therefore perfect for infants' fragile backs.

Traveling with a one year old or older

If you decide to take your baby with you on a bike ride through parks and squares - nothing is easier, baby bike seats will provide the necessary level of comfort and safety for your child. They have a high backrest and protective bumpers and footrests.

If the whole family with the baby has gathered for nature with an overnight stay or just spend the whole day in the park, do not forget to buy a children's tent. Together with a baby sleeping bag for sleeping, it will provide the little one with strong and bright dreams in the fresh air. Thanks to the dense fabric and mosquito net, insects will not be able to disturb your child's sleep.

And in order not to forget anything and develop independence and responsibility in the kid, he should definitely buy a children's backpack. It can be used to store all the essentials for travel and school.

Traveling with a child by car

So that while driving all the necessary items for caring for the little one are always at hand, you should buy a children's organizer in the car. And the more pockets and compartments there are, the better, each item will have its place. So that the question of finding a toilet did not take parents by surprise, children's travel pots with special replaceable bags were invented.

This summer we went by car to a family camp in Greece. Before leaving, I thoroughly prepared myself, picked up a collection of word games, and also put together a travel box for my child full of interesting activities.

I'll tell you what I packed and how actively it was used on the road. I must say right away that we are not seasick at all. Maybe the dynamic gymnastics practiced with a child in infancy had an effect. Therefore, I boldly took with me a lot of different things that you can do with your hands. What can you take with you to entertain your child? It depends on his age, and you yourself know better than others what can please and captivate him for a long time. I am giving a list for a 6 year old boy.

What to take with you to the car on a long journey

• New books. I took books with large print and interesting pictures to look at. I read and leafed through. I decided when. I sometimes gave wise advice, such as "read Pushkin's poems." In general, I spent no more than 2-3 times 15 minutes a day with books.
• Books with tasks - creative, logical, mathematical. I took Zhenya Katz's notebooks, a set "We are going - we are not bored" from the Labyrinth, a find, a book by Tatyana Zadorozhnaya "How to draw any story." Zhenya and Nakhodilki did not reveal much. I tried to draw along Zadorozhnaya only once (it turned out cool!). The most popular set was from the Labyrinth.
• Drawing. I put a clipboard and a lot of A4 sheets. I made a wonderful set of stationery in a box from Ikea (felt-tip pens, bright pens, compasses, pencils and a sharpener, erasers, simple and curly scissors, decorative tape, glue, eyes). I put in a new album with good paper and Cars. I didn't paint much. But he actively used paper: he folded airplanes, ships and hares, made and decorated pizza. I came up with a game with a parcel and a restaurant. He prepared (drew) different dishes for us, cut them out and sent them to the front seat in a package (cardboard box). In general, sheets and a set of office supplies were actively used. Pencils can be put not chiseled, complete with a good sharpener, let them work on the way.
• A notebook for travel notes. The dream of raising Paganel does not fade in me, although the artist is actively growing. Didn't go: in three days one inscription appeared in the notebook “I liked spending the night at the hotel” ... Vanya has been reading since he was 4 years old, and began writing at 4.5 years old. Moreover, I did not particularly teach him either one or the other. I learned it myself. I am writing about how this happens in children in the camp here.
• Plasticine. Created all the conditions: a new box, a set of cool stacks, a modeling board. Until it went at all. Probably, it should have been given out as a surprise at some point.
• Map to mark the route. I bought an erasable world map on a tip, but in fact, it was not very convenient to erase it on the way. We finished the route already upon arrival.
• Origami sheets. That was actually a Bomb! On the third day, as a surprise, I gave Vanya a book with airplane folding diagrams and beautiful sheets. And after that 5 hours of travel, he only did what he designed. The planes littered the entire cabin, we carried out test tests at halts, some flew from the windows. In general, origami captivated the child in earnest and brightened up more than one day's journey! Now he is asking for new folding schemes.
• Compact games (magnetic and logic). They, like audiokazki, also showed themselves very well. I'll tell you about them in a separate article.
• Flashlight or glow sticks - it is good to give out when it gets dark, if the child is still awake.
• Binoculars - to look around.
• New yarn set(weave scarves and strings) or elastic bands for weaving.
• Lego

How to give out surprises so that there is enough for 3 thousand kilometers?

To make the surprise box work, there are a few rules:

• The most important thing is not to dump it all at once into some kind of "baby bag" available to him all the time. In this case, the value of the gifts diminishes. He will not be there diligently poking around and choosing what he has not yet played. Checked. Initially, I had some of the books, games and creative kits in his special box for free access. It was a mistake. Because he looked at it for half an hour and lost interest.
• Each surprise should be wrapped as a gift before the trip. In many layers of paper. Or newspapers. A significant part of the path will be spent simply on unfolding. And, of course, in this form, the surprise is of much greater value.
• Give out surprises one at a time, several times a day. So that the child has time to fully enjoy them, play enough, feel.
• Make the surprise box itself inaccessible for the child so that he does not peep in advance what is there. We didn't find room for her in the trunk, so she drove alongside Vanya all the way. But he firmly knew that it was impossible to look into it, or all the surprises would go to gifts to others. I didn't try to break the rule, I held on.

That's all the rules. With this box, we easily reached Greece, without ever resorting to the rescue aid of the tablet.

I also wrote about such a mega-important component of the trip as