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Travel Games for Children Ages 5 to 6 Years

 
Electronic Travel Games by Excalibur
Keep your kids, big and small, occupied and entertained in the car and on the plane!
 
Magnetic Travel Games from Smethport Specialty
Wooly Willy has come to Family on Board! We've got some great magnetic games that you'll remember from your childhood.
 
Travel Games & Activities: Scribble Mat / Scribble Book Write-on / Wipe-Off Sets
Use them again and again in car, plane or restaurant!
 
Travel Games and Toys Organized by Age
Find the right travel games for your family.
 
Travel Games: Chicken Socks Books by Klutz Press
 
Travel Games: Puzzles Mazes and Activities from Melissa and Doug
   
Hip Hugger Magnetic CHINESE CHECKERS $5.00 $3.75 On Sale! 631 [Order]  [View Cart/Checkout]
Another classic children's game, for 2-4 players, Ages 6 and up.
   

Roadkill Bingo $5.00 840 [Order]  [View Cart/Checkout]
Quantity   1 - 3    4 - 11    12+  
Price $5.00 $4.50 $4.00
Save when you order more online!

Spot the "road-pizza" and fill your squares, and before you know it someone has BINGO and the long trip is over! Find Skunks, Snakes (or auto belts) Squirrels, Smells, Tires, and our own favorite, the unidentifiable "Urk!" Rules prohibit hitting stuff, live or dead, so this harmless-yet-twisted game offers the unfortunates a chance to "fur"-ther serve a purpose. (Like, maybe the kids will learn to drive more sensibly on the highway than their parents do?) Each set contains 4 different plastic game boards, 77 static-stick markers, instructions and stores in its own Zip-Loc bag. Dimensions: Cards are 4.5 x 6.5 inches, package is 9 x 5

Not recommender for children under 4.

   
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Magnetic Travel Game Collector Tins: Backseat Travel Kit $15.00 803 [Order]  [View Cart/Checkout]
Includes over 20 games and activities, including Solitaire Games, Dry Erase Acticities, License Plate Games, Checkers, Roadside Search Games and more!

The Collector Tin Box has a Magnetically Receptive Surface allowing you to have fun with magnets everywhere. Comes with all the precut magnets & accessories you need to get started playing right away. When finished, just close the tin case to keep everything together for next time!

Ages 3+

   
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Klutz Press: Amazing Backseat Book-a-Ma-Thing $16.95 494 [Order]  [View Cart/Checkout]

The folks at Klutz have cooked up 33 different games packed into a heavy-duty, spiral-bound book called The Amazing Book-a-ma-Thing for the Backseat:  Thousands of Miles' Worth of Hands-On Games & Activities.    For kids reading age & up.  Includes:

  • Shifting tile puzzle
  • Magic Writer doodle pad with 8 different games
  • Penny Races track with spinner
  • Dime Races w/spinner
  • Act out stories
  • "Round Up the Critters" punch-out paper puzzle
  • Penny Golf course
  • Monkey Swing maze
  • Finger Tangle (like Twister(TM), only for fingers!)
  • Backseat Baseball pinball game
  • and many more!

   
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Klutz Press: The Etch A Sketch Book $16.95 495 [Order]  [View Cart/Checkout]
Etch A Sketch made better! This set includes a 4"x5" genuine Ohio Art mini Etch A Sketch, with accessories by Klutz Press. In addition to great tips and tricks, and a miniture book chock-full of ideas, this awesome set has 12 screen overlays to turn your Etch A Sketch into a golf course, Pyramid maze or pin-ball game! So cool that it might not make it to the back seat.
   
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Klutz Press: The Cootie Catcher Book $8.95 503 [Order]  [View Cart/Checkout]
Cootie Catchers are back, and more fun than ever! The book includes 21 preprinted Cootie Catchers to tear out and fold up, and five to customize yourself. Funny and funky illustrations, plus great variations on the game. Kindergarten and up.
   
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Magnetic Travel Game Collector Tins: Dinosaurs! $15.00 801 [Order]  [View Cart/Checkout]
Includes 20 Dinosaur Magnets and 4 different Prehistoric Playscenes.

The Collector Tin Box has a Magnetically Receptive Surface allowing you to have fun with magnets everywhere. Comes with all the precut magnets & accessories you need to get started playing right away. When finished, just close the tin case to keep everything together for next time!

Ages 3+

   
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Magnetic Travel Game Collector Tins: Makin Faces $15.00 802 [Order]  [View Cart/Checkout]
Includes 4 different faces and over 45 Magnetic Face Pieces!

The Collector Tin Box has a Magnetically Receptive Surface allowing you to have fun with magnets everywhere. Comes with all the precut magnets & accessories you need to get started playing right away. When finished, just close the tin case to keep everything together for next time!

Ages 3+

   
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Klutz Press: Kids Travel -- A Backseat Survival Guide $19.95 614 [Order]  [View Cart/Checkout]

Parents are the ones who enjoy this book the most -- not because of its Parents' Choice Award -- but because it had enough to keep a couple of kids busy for a couple days cooped up in a car.    This jam-packed book has dozens of  games, puzzles, instructions, mysteries, quizzes, lyrics, projects -- and all the stuff you need to do them, including dice, markers thread, and lanyard cord.   Reading age and up.

Think we're kidding about the jam-packed part?    Check this list out:

  • Classic Travel Games
  • Even More Game Classics
  • Lost on Earth Games
  • Geography Bee
  • Parchesi
  • Two Dice Games
  • Car Games
  • Car Rituals
  • Palm Reading
  • IQ Test
  • Mini-Mysteries
  • What's Wrong with this Picture
  • Green-Bellied, Big-Mouthed, Paper-Eating Monster
  • Songs for the Road
  • Sign Language
  • Indian Scout Hand Signals
  • Captain Midnight Secret Decoder
  • Detecting Forgeries
  • Hand Games
  • Fortune Teller
  • Word Games
  • Hidden Pictures
  • Make a Friendship Bracelet
  • Hair Wrap
  • Pencil & Paper Games
  • Magic
  • Draw Your Own Superheroes
  • String Game:  Crow's Feet

   
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Hip Hugger Magnetic Naval Battle $5.00 636 [Order]  [View Cart/Checkout]
Similar to "Battle Ship," this magnetic game comes with two gameboards so each player can guess the position of the other's navy. Colored tiles score hits and misses. Age 6 and up.
   
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Hip Hugger Magnetic Glow in the Dark Solitaire $5.00 639 [Order]  [View Cart/Checkout]
The classic time-passer for a single player now has glowing pieces for night-time travel, too. Both "cross" and "triangle" games are included. Compact 8 in. x 6 in. game board which folds out to 8 in. x 12 in. Packaged in reusable clear vinyl outer case. Ages 6 and up.
   
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Hip Hugger Magnetic Tangram $5.00 641 [Order]  [View Cart/Checkout]
Solve over 50 different puzzles using the seven different magnetic shapes. Solutions to the puzzles are included. Or try making up new shapes! Compact 8 in. x 6 in. game board which folds out to 8 in. x 12 in. Packaged in reusable clear vinyl outer case. Ages 6 and up.
   
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Hip Hugger Magnetic Mosaic $5.00 635 [Order]  [View Cart/Checkout]
Magnetic squares, triangles and circles develop your child's creativity as they create designs of their own. It's quiet, fun, and will be used for many trips to come. Compact 8 in. x 6 in. game board which folds out to 8 in. x 12 in. Packaged in reusable clear vinyl outer case. Ages 5 & up.
   
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Magnetic Games: Wooly Willy Activity Pack $8.00 648AP [Discontinued]  [View Cart/Checkout]
You get three old family travel favorites for one price! Wooly Willy has been entertaining kids in the backseat for 30 years now. Use the wand to draw hair, a beard, hats or anything else a creative kid can dream up. Also included in the Activity Pack is Doodle Balls, which allows kids (give it back, Mom!) to create mosaics using the special magnet pen, and the Fun House Maze, where you can't fall into a hole or pocket, or you have to start all over again!
   
52 Fun Things To Do At The Beach $6.95 613 [Order]  [View Cart/Checkout]
These Cards offer 52 great ideas to make any day at the beach more exciting, like Wacky Tracks, Beach Family Robinson and Hi! Tide!
   

Tylz! - the Magnetic Mosaic Travel Game $12.00 $8.00 On Sale! 950 [Order]  [View Cart/Checkout]
Tylz! (rhymes with "smiles") is a magnetic color-matching travel puzzle game that comes with 80 all-different "L" shaped tiles. The object is to select a tile from your hand and place it on the board such that it matches as many existing neighboring colors as possible. As the game progresses the board becomes a mosaic of color with ever-greater challenges and ever-greater opportunities to score.

Includes 80 magnetic L-shaped tiles, gameboard, and scoring markers. 1-4 players, ages 5 to adult.

Awards:
1999 National Parenting Center Seal of Approval
2003 Creative Child Magazine Seal of Excellence

   
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52 Fun Things to do in the Car $6.95 337 [Order]  [View Cart/Checkout]
These decks of playing cards also has hours of fun ideas. One version for planes, another for the car.
   
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52 Fun Things to do on a Plane $6.95 338 [Order]  [View Cart/Checkout]
An activity pack of cards: draw one and play the game, or choose another card. Lots of things to do, much like the 52 Fun Things To Do In A Car!
   
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Travel Bingo - Auto & Traffic Safety Set $7.00 380:381 [Order]  [View Cart/Checkout]
Quantity   1 - 3    4 - 11    12+  
Price $7.00 $6.50 $6.00
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A classic travel game! Only this one is self contained and reusable, with no pencil or board markers needed. Two boards each of Traffic Safety bingo and Auto bingo.
   

Hohner Kazoo 4 Pack $6.00 O221 [Order]  [View Cart/Checkout]
The classic plastic masterpiece Kazoo. Assorted Colors.
   
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Hoyle Miniature Travel Cards $2.00 O003 [Order]  [View Cart/Checkout]
Quantity   4+  
Price $1.75
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Play on the go with this mini-deck of Maverick playing cards!
   

Tangles DNA Puzzle $6.00 901 [Order]  [View Cart/Checkout]
The manufacturer boasts: Quite simply the most joy in a toy ever offered on planet earth. Proof that the Magic In The Motion comes in all sizes.
It's a toy, game, puzzle, tension releiver, and mathematical model.
It's that Fun Twisty thing!

Individual colors vary.

   

Coast to Coast puzzle from Binary Arts $10.00 890 [Order]  [View Cart/Checkout]
Coast-to-Coast is an original Binary Arts (now Think Fun) puzzle with a nostalgic flare. You're on a road trip in your vintage woodie station wagon trying to get from one coast to the other. Hopefully, you'll reach your destination.....but be prepared for many twists and turns along the way as you try to navigate this zany highway system! Stainless steel construction and a challenging maze make for a great conversation piece and hours of puzzling fun. Ages 8 to adult.
   

Magnetic Playing Cards with Board $15.00 831 [Order]  [View Cart/Checkout]
Miniature (2 1/4 x 1 3/4) playing cards with convenient play surface, in recloseable poly bag - great for travel!
   

Big Book of Car Games $14.95 834 [No Longer Available]  [View Cart/Checkout]
Zillions of backseat boredom busting games, riddles and jokes, silly stories, fun facts, sing-a-long songs, activities and cut-out crafts. The Big Book of Car Games is a wild ride - buckle up!
   

Doll House * Whiskers * Mermaid $12.00 835 [Order]  [View Cart/Checkout]
Three simple, inexpensive, and entertaining travel games! Mini Magnetic Doll House is quiet, creative fun for the car, bus or plane. Whiskers the cat: use the magnetic wand to draw hats, stripes, polka-dots or anything else on Whiskers. Catch a Mermaid - by flipping them into the net. Score points for up to five out of five catches, self contained.

Ages 3 and up.

   

Silly City * Dozer * Flip a Fish $12.00 836 [Order]  [View Cart/Checkout]
Three more simple, fun travel games from Smethport Specialty! Mini Magnetic Silly City lets the little ones place magnetic people and objects in a folding playboard for quiet, creative play. Magnetic Bull Dozer: use the magnetic driver to guide the bulldozer through the self-contained "gravel" filled construction playscene. Catch a Fish - by flipping them into the net. Score points for up to five out of five catches, also self contained.

Ages 3 and up.

   

Radica 20Q the Amazing 20 Questions Game $19.95 1001 [Order]  [View Cart/Checkout]
I can read your mind!

The Amazing 20Q will guess what you are thinking of, based on your answer to 20 sometimes unusual questions. It's a Mind Reader! Truly entertaining, educational fun for one or the whole car-full. If they are old enough to guess, they are old enough to play with a big kid or adult. Once you've tried it, you'll want to try it again! This game is good for at least 2 hours of travel time!

   

Store N Stuff Creativity Kit Lap Desk $17.00 1003 [Order]  [View Cart/Checkout]
Store N Stuff Creativity Kit Lap Desk comes with Non-Toxic markers, crayons, ruler, colored pencils, eraser, sharpener, and removable, stowable storage bins. Soft bottom for child's comfort. Ships in assorted colors.
   
Klutz Book of Knots $10.95 O116 [Order]  [View Cart/Checkout]
Practice tying knots using the nylon cord that is color-coded to the illustrations and tied through the holes on each page.
   

Melissa and Doug Farm Fun Hide and Seek $15.00 1037 [Order]  [View Cart/Checkout]
Hide and seek farm fun, for ages 4+
   

Melissa and Doug Shoe Lacing Peg Puzzle $15.00 1038 [Order]  [View Cart/Checkout]
Younger kids will enjoy learning to do the puzzles, lace the laces, tie the bows, and even match the socks under the shoes! For ages 4+
   

Maginetics (TM) Doodle Writer Deluxe Desk $19.00 1045 [Order]  [View Cart/Checkout]
We think that Doodle Writer is a fabulous addition to Family on Board's line of travel games and activities. The 13 inch by 12 inch plastic desk and drawing pad can be used for drawing, games or just doodling, and with the easy fingertip erase feature, mistakes disappear instantly! Draw with the stylus or use the special magnetic stamps -- which you design -- to decorate the picture. Use it for picture guessing games, tic-tac-toe, hangman and more! It has one of the best play values in our line. Includes Doodle Writer desk with stamps and two magnetic stylus pens.

Currently Unavailable


   

Maginetics (TM) Magic Pad $10.00 1046 [Order]  [View Cart/Checkout]
A less-expensive, no frills version of our Doodle Writer, it can be used for drawing, games or just doodling, and with the easy fingertip erase feature, mistakes disappear instantly! Includes 12 x 9 pad with paperboard base (no desk included) and one magnetic pen.

Currently Unavailable


   

Bob the Builder Colorforms Fun Pockets Set $6.00 1047 [Order]  [View Cart/Checkout]
Bob the Builder Fun Pockets by Colorforms. Includes 37 Colorforms vinyl pieces which cling to the two play board scenes. Contained in reusable travel pouch for easy storage. Recommended ages 3-8. As this activity has small pieces, it is not for children under 3 years old.
   

Dora the Explorer Colorforms Fun Pockets Set $6.00 1048 [Order]  [View Cart/Checkout]
Dora the Explorer Fun Pockets by Colorforms. Includes 33 Colorforms vinyl pieces which cling to the two play board scenes. Contained in reusable travel pouch for easy storage. Recommended ages 3-8. As this activity has small pieces, it is not for children under 3 years old.
   

Tot Trivia -- 600 Questions & Answers for Ages 3 - 6 $14.00 1056 [Order]  [View Cart/Checkout]
We LOVE this one because it has lots of depth to it. To begin with, Tot Trivia has 600 questions and answers that a 3 to 6 year old can answer, including topics of safety, manners, nutrition, nursery rhymes, shapes and science. Examples: What is the opposite of FLOOR? (Ceiling) or What do you call someone who makes or repairs shoes? (A shoemaker). On the other side of the cards are flash cards of letters and numbers along with a word or picture using that letter or number. Some cards include a 'What's different?' drawing for children to identify similarities and differences and develop powers of observation. Cards are durable 5 1/2 x 3 1/2 inch cards which come in their own storage box.
   

Kiddie Color / Magic Pictures Activity Book Set $6.00 1057 [Order]  [View Cart/Checkout]
Kiddie Color and Magic Pictures are coloring activity books for younger children, and include two books, 6.25 inches by 6.5 inches, 24 pages each. Kiddie Color is a classic coloring book with printed drawings. Magic Pictures requires rubbing a pencil to reveal the secret invisible drawings watermarked in the paper. Magic Pictures is recommended for 5 & up, but parents should use their discretion as this may be able to be done by younger kids as well.
   

Color by Letter / 1 to 20 Dot to Dot Actvity Books Set $6.00 1058 [Order]  [View Cart/Checkout]
A classic pass-time for younger children, the Color by Letter and 1 to 20 Dot to Dot books set includes two books, 6.25 inches by 6.5 inches, 24 pages each. Color by Letter has printed drawings which suggest which color to use by letter. 1 to 20 Dot to Dot includes simple dot-to-dot drawings for kids age 3-6.
   

Magnetic Travel Game Collector Tins: Fun With Shapes $15.00 799 [Order]  [View Cart/Checkout]
Includes 43 magnets and over 40 designs, a wonderful, simple first picture making kit

The 8 x 10 Collector Tin Box has a magnetically receptive surface allowing kids to have fun with magnetic shapes everywhere they go. Packs neatly away for storage.

Ages 3+

   

Magnetic Travel Game Collector Tins: Dress Up $15.00 800 [Order]  [View Cart/Checkout]
28 magnets, 4 party scenes, and 8 girls to dress!

The 8 x 10 Collector Tin Box has a magnetically receptive surface to keep play self-contained and easily packed up for travel.

Ages 3+

   

Tangles - Palm Size Glow in the Dark $6.00 1126 [Order]  [View Cart/Checkout]
Palm size Tangles, for even bigger wiggly fun!
   

Tangles -- Pen Palz Character - 4 color pen $6.00 1127 [Order]  [View Cart/Checkout]
4 Color Tangle pen pal with interchangeable parts.
   

Space Ball Glow in the Dark $8.00 600 [Order]  [View Cart/Checkout]
Glow in the dark Space-Ball makes a great night-time travel activity. Plastic pieces snap together similar to a geodesic dome. Pieces can be reconfigured into other shapes as well.
   

Lauri Primer Pak Travel Kit for Ages 3-6 $14.98 1142 [Order]  [View Cart/Checkout]
Quiet, challenging fun for the car
Includes 1 alphabet puzzle with letters A-Z in washable crepe rubber; 3 durable chipboard shapes to lace & trace; 4 round Fit-a-Space puzzles for stringing and learning primary shapes; 25 piece Lochtagon construction set; 3 36-in. laces with 1-inch tips; 1 Travel Tote with handle.
   

Cranium Big Book of Outrageous Fun $19.95 $14.96 On Sale! 1147 [Order]  [View Cart/Checkout]
From the makers of the fastest-selling independent board game in history, here's a one-of-a-kind new activity book and game, packed with over 40 write-on/wipe-off activity pages, a totally new Cranium pull-out game board, a Super Sign-In Book to record fun facts about family and friends, and a multitude of cool Cranium components like Cranium Clay, a purple sand timer and a game spinner.

Kids will be inspired to explore their many talents - as well as discover new ones - as they play on their own or invite their friends and family to join in the fun! And every page comes to vibrant life with artwork by renowned illustrator Gary Baseman.

Suggested for ages 7 and up.

   

Deluxe Spirograph $14.00 1148 [No Longer Available]  [Checkout]
Cool Gears and Shapes to create amazing designs. Gears lock in under the lip of the shapes making it easier to use than when you were a kid. Today's version featuers an included shape-drawing template stencil, built in storage for gears and pencil, and nonskid tray for keeping paper in place. Apx 8.5 x 11

Small parts means not for chidren under 3, recommended for ages 5 and up.

   

Lithgow Paloozas Boredom Blasters Travel Edition $14.95 1166 [No Longer Available]  [View Cart/Checkout]
Each Palooza contained in this inventive, interactive kit draws on your imagination, your unique point of view, and best of all, delivers the all-engrossing action that will really make the miles move.

Don't just ask, "What's a palooza?" Try one! A palooza is an activity guaranteed to take a kid's mind off of the long drive or day ahead and get him or her interested in something new, creative, and out-of-this-world fun. A palooza takes an everyday idea and makes something completely different-and totally unexpected-out of it. A palooza isn't just an idea, it's a way of thinking. Comes complete with just about all the materials needed to make imaginations soar. Sculpt a racing seagull from chenille sticks! Make a puzzle only you can solve! Tons of ingenious and inspired brainstorms will soon have kids everywhere saying,"It's not just an idea, it's a palooza of an idea."

Parents Choice Award 2005


   

Magnetic Games: Wooly Willy Doodle Zoo Activity Pack $12.00 648Z [Order]  [View Cart/Checkout]
You get three old family travel favorites for one price! Wooly Willy has been entertaining kids in the backseat for 30 years now. Use the wand to draw hair, a beard, hats or anything else a creative kid can dream up. Also included in the Activity Pack is Doodle Balls, which allows kids (give it back, Mom!) to create mosaics using the special magnet pen, and the Magnetic Zoo playset, with magnet-receptive playscene and magnetic animals!
   

Magnetic Games: Wooly Willy Doodle Airport Activity Pack $12.00 648A [Order]  [View Cart/Checkout]
You get three old family travel favorites for one price! Wooly Willy has been entertaining kids in the backseat for 30 years now. Use the wand to draw hair, a beard, hats or anything else a creative kid can dream up. Also included in the Activity Pack is Doodle Balls, which allows kids (give it back, Mom!) to create mosaics using the special magnet pen, and the Magnetic Airport playset, with magnet-receptive playscene and magnetic airplanes and things!
   

Klutz Press: Road Trip Trivia $12.95 O016 [Order]  [View Cart/Checkout]
This book is packed to the gills with more than 300 intriguing questions and answers. Pondering funny but factual make the miles fly.
   

West Coast Roadkill Bingo $5.00 840W [Order]  [View Cart/Checkout]
Quantity   1 - 3    4 - 11    12+  
Price $5.00 $4.50 $4.00
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Like American Roadkill Bingo, West Coast Roadkill Bingo you spot the "road-pizza" and fill your squares, and before you know it someone has BINGO and the long trip is over! Find Skunks, Cats, Squirrels, Smells, Tires, Shoes and our own favorite, the unidentifiable "Urk!" Rules prohibit hitting stuff, live or dead, so this harmless-yet-twisted game offers the unfortunates a chance to "fur"-ther serve a purpose. (Like, maybe the kids will learn to drive more sensibly on the highway than their parents do?) Each set contains 4 different plastic game boards, 77 static-stick markers, instructions and stores in its own Zip-Loc bag. Dimensions: Cards are 4.5 x 6.5 inches, package is 9 x 5

Not recommender for children under 4.


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