Babycake's Activity Book: Car Trip!

Two weeks after our failed camping trip, our little family of four took a trip to Kansas City to visit the hubby's sister. Our house to KC is 7.5 hours according to Google Maps. Traveling from our house to KC with a three year old and four month old... the trip took 10+ hours. Prior to the trip I mapped out our journey and all the possible stopping points (which had playgrounds either inside and out). I also planned lots of en route car entertainment for Babycake. One of those pastimes was a Car Ride Activity Book reused from the Camping Activity Book I previously created.

This book only had one activity: Find, Color, and Trace. Each page of the Activity Book had two images on it. Each time Babycake saw one of the objects depicted, she got to color it and trace it's name under it. There were times when she wanted to color the picture a certain color; so we could spend up to an hour looking out our window for a semi-truck that had red on it. Talk about killing time! Below you can see that not only was she focused on staying in the lines (as much as possible for a three year old, and in a moving car), she also traced the provided words to perfection. Then she practiced copying words and writing them independently. Uhg!! So proud of this girl and her aptitude!!!

This was a great hit with Babycake. It was a game she got to play, break from, and pick up without missing a thing. I'm sure there will be more activity books in the future.