No5n05, I was the "entertainment committee" in the back seat through 2 kids. Here are a few things that were good for us:
- Baggies of snacks that were little things that took a while to eat. We made "gorp" of Cheerios, raisins, and I threw in a few M&Ms or chocolate chips or small marshmallows to make it interesting for them. I put in a baggie for each day.
- Our kids liked Colorforms.
- One of our kids had a set of small stuffed animals she liked to "groom". We put them in a little bag with a hairbrush, comb, and some scrunchies. She spent a lot of time working on them.
- Books on tape, the whole family listened to those. Harry Potter was our favorite (of course), even with the four year old.
- I read chapter books aloud (but you can only do so much of that).
- We played their tapes (Raffi, etc.) sometimes on the car stereo system (Baby Beluga in the deep blue sea...).
- We got a book of games to play in the car from the library. So stuff like the one where you are packing your trunk, and you put in...
- Maze books are fun for a lot of kids, or color by number, or dot-to-dot for littler ones.
I kept the stuff in a bag by me so they couldn't see everything at once. Every half hour or so I would bring out something new. So they didn't dig through in the first five minutes and then have nothing new to think about.
