Child Travel Books

Book Activity for Traveling Child

Child Travel Book

50 Travel Games and Activities

This fantastic pack of cards is full of fun games and things to do while traveling. Just choose a card, then follow the simple instructions on the back.

• Ages: 6 years and up
• Size: 4 x 6 1/8 inches
• Pages: 50 cards

Child Travel Book

Time Traveler Book

Informative and amusing, this book contains four updated Usborne classics: Knights & Castles, Viking Raiders, Rome & Romans, Pharaohs & Pyramids. Discover what life was really like in this action-packed adventure through history. Visit a castle during the Crusades, meet a ferocious band of Viking raiders, explore Rome when the Roman empire was at its height and take a trip down the Nile at a time when pharaohs ruled Egypt.
 

Child Travel Book

Travel Doodles

There are over a hundred doodling opportunities in this pack, and the cards are wipe-clean so you can doodle over them again and again.
 

 

1. Which two words in English have the most letters?
2. What is white when it is dirty and black when it is clean?
3. What is the longest sentence you can think of?

Answers at the bottom : )

Child Travel Book

Around the World Sticker

Travel the world in this delightful sticker book. With over 300 stickers to add to the pictures, you can visit the Australian outback, cruise along a canal in Venice, fly onto a tropical island and take a trip through the Amazon rainforest, as well as experience many other adventurous journeys.
 

Child Travel Book

Good Luck Anna Hibiscus

Anna Hibiscus lives in Africa. Amazing Africa. She can't wait to fly across the world and visit her Granny in Canada. But can she find warm clothes for the cold weather? And will her family even miss her?
"Anna Hibiscus takes the reader to a whole different culture and will introduce children to the idea that books really can make you travel to a fascinating and completely different land, something which is often advertised (how many times have you seen posters for traveling with books?) but rarely fulfilled except in fantasy." - Jean Little Library (July 15, 2011)

Child Travel Book

Sticker Dolly Dressing Around the World

In this book you will find dolls from different countries in the world. Use the stickers to dress them in their traditional costumes, from beautiful silk sari at an Indian wedding to the elegant flamenco dresses in Spain.
 

Child Travel Book

1001 Things to Spot on Vacation

This puzzle book is packed full of things to find and count. Spot sea stars on a coral reef, snowmen on a ski trip, and lion cubs on safari. From the plane trip to the gift shop, there's lots of fun to be had.
 

Planning The Perfect Travel Vacation

My children had an argument in the car the other day, but I didn't mind; they were fighting over what our family was going to study this summer. For the past several years, we have focused our summer fun until it has become a time of academic enrichment. We give our summer a theme, research our vacation destination, hone basic skills, and bribe our children to read. Despite the arguing, we think it makes the perfect vacation.

Getting in Shape
Summer is a great time to get in good academic shape. Keep your child's math skills sharp by giving a few math problems each day. Get a head start on next school year. Check with your school about next year's reading list, and read the books together. Work on the next set of math concepts. If your child is taking a foreign language, give them an introduction with cassettes, software, or television. Ask a teacher from the next grade level for ideas. Just don't overdo it! I think thirty minutes of formal study is plenty.

It will be torture, but this summer one of my children will spend 15 minutes per day learning Latin vocabulary, and another will be working in a pre-Algebra book. One will continue to visit his science tutor to get a foundation in Chemistry. Before school was out, our library had posted the reading list for the following year, and we'll be reading lots of the books and watching the videos they inspired.

What to Pack
Planning a vacation can be almost as much fun as the travel itself! Make yourselves experts on the place you will be visiting. Study the history of the place, and let the kids make a time line to illustrate the important dates and events. Read books and watch movies that relate to your plans. Map your route. Surf web sites that will give you an idea of what you want to see, and allow your children to pick activities and places to visit. Find out if there will be any special festivals during your visit. Let the kids hunt for coupons and other bargains, and you may save enough money to stay a few extra days.

Theme Parks
A great way to focus your summer is to give it a 'theme'. Choose one or two subjects that interest your children, and center your activities around the idea. Find related crafts, books, movies, and even music. See if there are documentaries on your topic. Visit places that relate to your theme. Get some ideas from your child's teacher, who probably uses unit study in the classroom.

Our guys are still arguing over our theme for this summer. Two boys want to use Star Wars. If we choose this, we'll study stars, DNA, and forms of government. The other two boys want to focus on World War II, which will send us to the Holocaust Museum and to look at old photo albums from veteran friends. Last summer we watched the mini-series Roots, and used it as a spring board to discuss American history. The summer before our big trip, we used the vacation as our summer theme. I've also capitalized on the boys' obsessions with dinosaurs or their fascination with space, and we visited museums, planetariums, and even a university telescope.

Paying on Credit
Our family has a television spread sheet that awards television time for minutes spent reading.
(Email us at mailto:reading@summerfun101.com and ask for your free copy!) I'll also pay minutes for school work. Educational videos are free, as are educational computer games. Because electronic devices are the best incentive for our guys, we use them as a reward for time well spent learning.

Without safeguards, our boys would absolutely waste hours and hours each day watching cartoons, playing video games, and surfing the internet. I have always felt that it was my responsibility to ensure that the boys use their time wisely. It is important to redeem the days when they don't have the stress of school, and use them as opportunities for growth. I hope our ideas will help you to plan the perfect learning vacation for your family.
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Kayla Fay is a freelance writer and publisher who is determined to help her four boys to make the most out of every minute of this summer. Kayla and her guys share ways for you to make your own summer fun in their brand new family product called "Summer Fun 101".