Craft: Matching Activity

One of my car friendly activity projects is super easy and fast to make. I cut a corner off of 8 colors of construction paper. Taped it up with packing tape (could be fancy and laminate). Then used markers to make matching clothespins. Wrote the word and did a block of color too.

It was a great game but I had to play with my 2 year old because she couldn't figure out how to operate a clothespin... So she grabbed them and told me where to clip them on.

Made a numbers version too:

It is way to hard for a 2.05 year old. Maybe like a 2.5 year old could be successful. But we practiced counting. It was pretty fun regardless of the failure.

Craft: Car Lap Activity Table

We are going on a car trip with a 2 year old. So I say to myself she can color and read and play all the way there. But then I got to thinking about how she doesn't have the lap space she needs!! So here is how I made her a lap activity board for the car.

Take a cheap whiteboard and a hot glue gun. Cut a polar fleece square 2.5-3 inches larger than the white board. Then hot glue 3 sides of the polar fleece (centered) to 3 sides of the white board.

Glue the corners together too so it ends up square. 

Then cut it: 

And hot glue it shut

Stuff to your desired stiffness with stuffing or fiberfill. I though bean bag material might be awesome as well. 

Then glue on the last side and glue up the last 2 corners in the same fashion.

Good Luck!