Today we took Ethan on his longest car ride yet. It was meant to be 5 hours...but it turned out to be 7! It was an exercise in all of our Personal, Social and Emotional Development as we worked on patience, ingenuity, creativity and cooperation!
Ethan was very good, considering that he was confined to his car seat for such a long time.
Here are our top tips for a long car ride:
- bring lots of snacks
- bring a selection of toys to introduce at different intervals throughout the journey
- toys that we found good for in the car
- books
- vehicles
- people / animals
- colouring mats (the Travel Aquadoodle or Megasketcher are good, we found traditional colouring quite difficult in the car)
- stickers
- electronic toys (as long as the repetitive sound won't drive you crazy) Ethan has a phone that he loves
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