any ideas about how to entertain 16 month old twins on a 6 hour flight

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PLEASE smoe advice! I am flying to Ghana on KLM with my twins aged 16 months but they will be sitting on the laps of myself and my sister. Is it a complete nightmare travelling with toddlers? DD can walk and DS can only crawl and cruise. I have only travelled on a 2 hour flight before where it coincided with napping. Including check in times and one stop this will be a 12 hour day!!
Can anyone suggest anything that may make this less of an ordeal than it promises to be!I am DREADING it.

sorry SOME advice!

Sorry I have sat loomking blanky at the screen and all suggestions are futile. You are going, it will be as good as it can be. The it will be over and you can realx, then after a while you will have to do it all again to return home. Really it will be OK.

Hmm, we travelled with one 19 month old at the end of September and it was only a four hour flight and was not much fun. On the way out he was fine, and slept a bit, although we were lucky as the flight was not full and we had a whole row of empty seats in front of us so he could stand up and pull at them etc without annoying others. On the way back he was miserable and cried and wanted to run off but obviously we couldn't let him so he screamed. I am pregnant with twins and am NOT looking forward to flying with them and with DS as well!

However, the things that worked for us were, a new baby scribbler toy from ELC (magic screen thing that you can draw on and clear again and again, not v expensive), toy aeroplanes, LOTS and LOTS of snacks (on way out just kept plying him with things to keep him happy), and also his comfort blanket. Sadly none of these worked on way back .

Good luck! Some of the twin ladies will come along and help you soon.

toys,
colouring books
something new. like fuzzy felts or something.
but not too many teddy bears.
food. cheese sticks etc, rather than crumbly biscuits.
bottles of milk.

drwsy cough syrup.

and chill pills for you and your sister

If you've got the time and space to do it (and I admit we did this before all the restrictions on hand-luggage), I packed a beach bag with small cheap plastic toys, all individually wrapped up. Whenever dd was starting to get restless/noisy we gave her another - took the poor thing about 10 mins to unwrap, and could then play with them, which was another 20 mins ...

and I second the cough syrup or Medised to help with naps.

If you've not got enough time to do that, then cruising slowly up and down aisles does keep them happy - 10 seconds smiling at each person! We had a really arsy young couple next to us, who tutted loudly every time poor dd squeaked, to which all you can do is smile, apologise and hope they have triplets ...

Yes the worry about annoying OTHER PEOPLE! My DD has a particularly loud and grating cry which even gets to me and I am her mother. She is also 'strongwilled'. Hurrah! Can't wait. Thanks for the advice though because you have given me some good ideas. It is obviously a cas eof constantly trying to distract and entertain them. Oh joy. To make matters worse they are full of cold with constantly streaming noses and as we live in Italy we are flying to UK for Christmas THEN to Ghana (the six hour flight) after that and back again!