How to Keep Toddlers Occupied on Road Trips?

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Ready for the ride!
This year for Spring Break we thought it would be a good idea to strap down two toddlers in their car seats and drive to Florida! Yes! You heard right, we are going to TRY to drive to Florida with two toddlers. Now, before you laugh to hard, let me explain a little. My parents are retired and spend most of the winter in Daytona Beach and my wife's brother lives in Miami. Hopefully you don't think I'm that crazy anymore. We are taking a family vacation to visit family. We decided to drive because Mara turns 2 the night we are leaving, so we would have to pay for 4 tickets. With it being Spring Break tickets are not cheap and we figured why pay for the ticket when she would probably spend most of the time on moms lap anyways.

Right now we are in the process of trying to get things organized and planned out for the kids. We have been doing research about things to occupy kids on long car rides. I thought, what a better place then to put it on the blog and let parents comment about suggestions you all have and what has or has not worked for you.

Lesson: Please share any or all suggestions you have to keep toddlers occupied on long car rides in the comment section!

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