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Top 10 Travel Activity Books for Kids

By Beverly Hernandez, About.com

Make car trips with kids fun and educational with these Travel Activity Books. A little planning can make for a more enjoyable trip! My Travel Activity Book and Travel Bingo are new free printables available for you.

1. Kids Travel: A Backseat Survival Kit

A full-color book of car-appropriate activities, plus a 100-page game pad, and a vinyl pouch full of everything you need to do the activities.

2. Road Trip Trivia

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Klutz calls this book their "most powerful boredom-buster yet!" Each page of this book has five multiple-choice goofball questions. Questions are answered by sliding the pegs to the answers you think are correct. To see how you did, flip the book over and the correct answers are revealed.
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3. Sparky Travel Backpack

Do your kids get totally bored on long or short trips? Spice up their vacation travels with this clear vinyl backpack filled with learning activities. There's an extra zippered pouch on the front for smaller items. Includes: State Maze book, Crossword puzzle book, U.S. Wordsearch games, laminated map, state geography playing cards and washable markers.

4. Miles of Smiles: 101 Great Car Games & Activities

Anyone who has ever been trapped in a hot car with bored kids is well aware that they need a sure-fire way of easing the resulting tensions. This book fills that need with 101 games and activities with travel-related themes. (ages 4 and up)

5. The Penny Whistle Traveling with Kids Book

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Parents and kids will find everything they need to make travel time fun time with "The Penny Whistle Traveling with Kids Book". Full of inventive advice and helpful hints, The Penny Whistle Traveling with Kids Book will show parents how to keep the kids occupied on the road with games for every age & interest.
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6. The Everything Kids' Travel Book

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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 while the world is whizzing by the window.
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7. Sticker Book

"The Most Incredible, Outrageous, Packed-to-the Gills, Bulging-at-the-Seams Sticker Book You've Ever Seen" includes sticker puzzles, sticker games, sticker jokes, sticker pictures, sticker people, sticker activities and sticker goofiness, plus tricky stickers. Over 450 stickers.
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8. The License Plate Game Book

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40 great travel games for fun on the go - includes license plate games, backseat bingo, road-sign games, I Spy, and more.
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9. 52 Travel Activity Kit

Continuing the success of the 52 Decks series, this kit gives kids everything they need for car, plane, or train trips in a self-contained game pack. The briefcase is perfect for slipping into a backpack, has room for toting along other small items you don't want to lose while traveling, and contains plenty of fun.
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10. Are We There Yet? Travel Games for Kids

This charmingly illustrated book of travel games will instantly become a part of every parent's emergency survival kit and every child's backpack. Whether you're crossing town in the car, the ocean in a plane, or taking the train or bus to Grandma's, "Are We There Yet?" is sure to make the trip a smooth ride.
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