The Everything Kids' Travel Activity Book: Games to Play, Songs to Sing, Fun Stuff to Do - Guaranteed to Keep You Busy the Whole Ride!

by Erik A Hanson, Jeanne Hanson

Overview

Do you love riding on planes, trains, and automobiles but get restless on the way? If the answer is yes, take along The Everything Kids’ Travel Activity Book and you’ll be there before you know it! Packed full of puzzles, activities, quizzes, and games, this book provides hours of nonstop fun that can be done alone or shared with other kids.

There’s cool stuff to do, like:
Create your own postcard
Invent a new automobile
Play detective

The Everything Kids’ Travel Activity Book also gives you answers to all sorts of crazy questions:
What makes your foot “go to sleep?”
Why does your sister cough?
Why do we daydream?

On top of all that, you can draw caricatures, test your memory, and even keep a weather diary. The traveling fun is so endless you’ll never ask “Are we there yet?” again!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781580626415
Publisher:	Adams Media
Publication date:	03/01/2002
Series:	Everything� Kids Series
Pages:	144
Sales rank:	269,201
Product dimensions:	7.90(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

An Adams Media author.

An Adams Media author.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Know Before You Go
What to Pack for Food
What to Pack for Fun
Web Sites
Chapter 1: Count the Cows? Yes, and the Ostriches
Gas Station Count
Yes, Count the Cows
What's in a Tree?
Cars Are Colorful
Passing on the Left
Uhh, What?
Junk Food Bites
Funny Business
Your Car's Name is Special
Snort
Higher Math, with Paper
Potty Stop
Billboard Alert
The Wild Ones
Hitchhikers
License Plate Delight
Sunny Day Alert
Barnyard Oddities
Mileage Math
Flattened Animal Alert
Chapter 2: Round-The-Family and Rhyming Games
Round It Up
Birds Around the Family
Doggies
Famous Initials
Artist on Board
Science and Measuring in Turn
School Supplies 101
Cars: Name It Time
Furniture Dance
Salad Time
Ghost
The Name Game
Foul Feast
Fake Excuses
Animal? Absolutely Not
Animal Advantages
Rhyming Games
Car Rhymes
How Does That Go?
Limerick Time
City Rhymes
Sentence Rhyme
Basic Poem?
Chapter 3: Grab a Pen and Paper, and Settle In!
Up-Close and Personal
The Postcard No One Has Ever Seen
We Had Fun, Out in the Sun
Pretend Fred
Let's Take A Long Walk
A Caricature?
Thanks for the Memories
Chapter 4: Be a Road Detective
Local Color
Games
Grocery Gumshoe
Web Detective
Restaurant Investigations
Chapter 5: Read-Alouds
The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Chapter 6: Sing-Alongs
Yankee Doodle
The StarSpangled Banner
Pop! Goes the Weasel
Home on the Range
I've Been Working On the Railraod
Ninety-nine Bottles Of . . .
Chapter 7: Go Creative
Games
What If We Looked Different
What If the World Were Weirder?
Name a New Kind of . . .
On an Airplane and Feeling Good
A Story About Five Things
What Else Could You Use It For?
Weirdo Country
It's Like a Simile and Metaphor!