Creative family road trip ideas

Jenny Putam of Minnetonka's store offers some advice and fun products to keep the peace on your next road trip.

Over all tips:

1. Buy small inexpensive items and gift wrap them. Place them next to the kids in the car and allow them to open one gift every hour along the way.
2. Pick up a music CD, customized with your child's name sung multiple times within every song.
   -Auto bingo - Spot items along the highway and mark them in a row for a bingo!
   -Thermos with child's name - Colorful and customized
   -Retro candy - Mike and Ike, candy necklace, slow poke and more wrapped individually or together
   -Golden Book - Classic stories that kids will love and parents will remember
   -Barnyard Squiggle - Entertaining doodling that encourages creativity as kids turn squiggly lines into farm animals
   -Activity kits - mini spiral draw, sticker fun, needlepoint
   -Chat pack and Family Road Trip Box of Questions - Cards with questioned that get creative juices flowing and spark discussion
   
   For the General Store web site click herehttp://www.generalstoreofminnetonka.com

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