Share your top tips for keeping kids entertained on long journeys to win Where’s Wally? activity book bundle PLUS bumper colouring kit!

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As the summer holiday countdown (kind of) begins, we’ve teamed up with Where’s Wally? to find out your top tips for keeping the kids entertained on long journeys and wet days…

To celebrate the publication of Where’s Wally? In Outer Space and Across Lands activity books, with tonnes of Where’s Wally? activities and 100 stickers in each book, we’ve put together this ultimate keep-the-kids-busy prize.

Mumsnetters loved Where’s Wally? The Colouring Book:

“Quiet, concentration, sharing, agreeing... and all four of those things at the same time! Big hit in this household” FeelingSmurfy

“Fantastic detail on every page - these are the real deal compared to trendy 'mindfulness' colouring books” debjani

Share your top tips for keeping the kids entertained on long journeys to be in with a chance of winning a Where’s Wally? activity book set including Where's Wally? The Colouring Book, In Outer Space and Across Lands, plus a bumper colouring kit!

If you haven’t already seen Where’s Wally? The Colouring Book, check out this created on a wet Sunday afternoon – 4 ½ hours of colouring fun with a very quiet 7 and 5-year-old…

This discussion is sponsored by Walker Books and will end 21 July

Audiobooks are a great favourite round here. And now my daughter can identify letter sounds we've introduced I spy, which taught me that her brain works much like her dad's - she could spot his obscure answers way before I would have. They also delight in coming up with obscure animals to make me fit into Old MacDonald, supposedly to entertain the baby... Old MacDonal had a cockerel anyone?!

Food, doodle pads, wordsearches, pegs and boards, loom bands...and a travel tidy to keep it all in!

I have the full set of Roald Dahl audiobooks which are a huge hit. I make up activity bags for them that have snacks, pens, colouring books, stickers, top trumps and a sheet of signs to look out for. They each have a clipboard with pen attached. And when they're finished with that lot they can have an iPad with new film downloaded.

Is it wrong that I'm excited about being quoted?

My tip is to take a bag of treats and get one out every now and then, it could be a cd to sing along to, a story book, an activity book, a travel game etc.

Also good old fashioned travel games like car bingo (print off boards and cross things off as you see them) shopping list (I bought an apple and a boat and a car.... Going though the alphabet and adding an item each time) fortunately/unfortunately (make a story up with each person doing a sentence going fortunately, unfortunately, fortunately etc)...

Plenty of healthy snacks (preferably things that won't make a mess of the car) - fruit, sandwiches, raw vegetable sticks etc.
Audio books
Regular stops for fresh air and exercise if in the car.
For train journeys - colouring, dot-to-dot and story books.

Snacks and drinks are a must as are sweets! Simple games too. We discuss what we all want to do on our holiday once we get there!

We like audio books on the cd player, the secret seven, stig of the dump, and just william are lined up ready for this summer holiday.
We also play I-Spy, and other observational games.
We take a small box of lego or geomagnets etc to play with and swap and share between the two of them.
Sweets snd snacks as treats and distractions. Now they are a little bigger we might have dry wipe boards (which they love) in the car.

Audio books are great! Also lots of pointing and chatting about all the things we can see (which can be great or incredibly boring depending on where you're driving!)

Old fashioned car games. Eg colours of cars. Number plates, I-Spy & sing a longs!

We use a mix of things to break up longer journeys. I-spy is a favourite (and easier not the kids are 5 and 7 and actually know what letters things start with), watching saved stuff on their tablets and playing spotting games - we say skittle when we see a yellow car which is strangely addictive.

Activity books, stories, snacks, audio books and music to sing to

Make a playlist up for kids.
Take magazines and toys.
Try to leave not long before a naptime.
Sweets and water.
DVD player always good too.

Sticker books work well for us, also puzzle books with a mixture of things like spot the difference and dot 2 dot. Indoors on a wet day we have two favourites, painting and play doh both last for ages. On journeys a lunch box filled with small snacks like raisins, strawberries, grapes and popcorn goes down well.

We love travelling by train rather than driving for long journeys, it means I can focus on entertaining the dc with games, books and we have lots of table space for board games like Cluedo.

We have a string we hang across the back of the front seats. It has major stops or landmarks for the journey on it. We then move a pegged car along the string to stop the incessant are we there yet questions. The kids love moving the car along and often look out for the next stop/landmark.

We have printed and laminated (so wipe able) games such as tic tac toe boards, naughts and crosses boards and ultimate tic tac toe. We also have a variety of 'bingo' style cards that vary from types of cars to types of signs to things we might see along the way.

We quite often play spot the alphabet registration game, where you have to spot a car with a in the reg, then b etc. there are a few
Enters that are missed out though!

The usual I spy, granny packed. A suitcase and took.. Games are played as well.

We have audio books and myths, sing along CDs, books and colouring items.

My son loves audio books, so these keep him quiet. We have just finished the harry potter series which has lasted us six months. We love to do colouring in, but my son likes to steal my adult colouring books, so these would be great for us to do as a family.

We play games- "I went to the moon and I took" where we each add an item and have to remember everyones increasingly silly things to take to the moon. Car or animal bingo is always fun where you assign points to the most unlikely colour of car or rarest animal to spot en route. It's amazing how many wild giraffes or bright pink cars are out there when points need scoring! We also sometimes pretend to be someone else in the family -speaking & acting like them until the others guess who it is - a simple 1 but great fun to hear a 4 yr old talking like his granny.

we like to play the number plate game, either finding numbers or the alphabet on passing cars. Sometimes we play i spy or I make up a bingo kit with things we might see, first one to cross everything off wins a treat (normally a sweetie)

My daughter listens to her favourite music on her headphones which means I can listen to something else if I want! We always have drinks and snacks too.

Eye spy and singing - works every time!

Good old I spy books and singing games which means the whole family can join in. Or a simple craft like pom-pom making or even knitting while listening to an audio book.

Bring puzzle or small board game

I have the essentials in the front with me - water bottle, snacks, plastic bag for rubbish and wet wipes. We play I-spy, spot the vehicle (DS loves spotting lorries and tractors he never tires of this) and audio books. I've just started the Roald Dahl audio books which the kids are enjoying.

When planning our route, I always try and find a spot where we can stop for a walk/play and lunch. One of my favourites is the garden centre near Burnham on sea - lovely large play area for the kids.

We have just been to a moth event at a local bird sanctuary. Moths were trapped overnight and identified (then released) in the morning. It was very interesting so we have bought an identification book and plan to see what we can find in the garden. We might try butterfly identification as well.

Sorry, misread the question!