 | Fractiles: Travel Version
Buy new: $24.95 Compact and quite engaging.
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 | SET Game
Buy new: $9.27 This game is wonderful! And young kids can play on a par with older ones...
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 | ThinkFun Brick By Brick
Buy new: $14.52 The kids love trying to build the shape on the cards with the odd shaped bricks.
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 | The Greatest Dot-to-Dot Book in the World, Book 1 by David Kalvitis
Buy new: $6.95 / Used from: $3.02 Big hit with all three kids. Make sure you pack pencils!
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 | Quiddler
Buy new: $8.64 My kids like the beautiful calligraphy letters on the cards. This game also gives them practice spelling words.
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 | Mad mad mad mad mad libs by Roger Price
Buy new: $3.99 / Used from: $0.01 ANY mad lib book is great - and as a bonus it gives the kids practice with parts of speech.
If the kids need to be quiet, you might want to leave this one out as my kids always break into loud peals of laughter doing this.
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 | How to Draw Pokemon by Tracey West
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $1.28 My kids love Pokemon, and can spend up to 30 minutes quietly drawing their own cute pokemon pictures for each other or to give away/trade with friends.
Make sure you pack colored pencils and a sketchpad too.
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 | Ramona Quimby, Age 8 (Avon Camelot Books) by Beverly Cleary
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.01 All of the Bevery Cleary books are great for repeat reads. My kids read these over and over again, never tiring of Ramona's and Henry Huggins' adventures.
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 | Sudoku Mania: More than 200 New Fun and Challenging Japanese Number Puzzles by Tammy Seto
Buy used from: $0.25 While this is not a book for children, my 3rd & 4th graders can do them independently, and my preschooler needs some assistance but he can solve enough of the puzzle to satisfy him.
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 | LEGO Ultimate Building Set - 405 Pieces
Buy new: $24.88 I usually toss a zip lock bag of legos (and a couple of people if I can find them) into the wait bag. We have a huge box of legos at home, with all sets mixed up, and I just grab a couple of handfuls.
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 | ThinkFun Izzi
Buy new: $9.99 Great freeform puzzle!
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 | Hidden Pictures 2007 (Highlights) by Jody Taylor
Buy used from: $0.01 Just like it sounds, a book where items are hidden in pictures and the challenge is for kids to find them.
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 | Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol
Buy used from: $0.01 It is wonderful to see my kids enjoying books that I myself loved as a child. These books are great for the wait bag because the stories are short (each book contains roughly 10 stories) and can be read in 5-10 minutes, including the thinking time required to solve the mysteries.
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 | ThinkFun Rush Hour
Buy new: $17.10 All of the ThinkFun products are great, and the wait bag always has at least one. Rush Hour is a classic.
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 | ThinkFun Cover Your Tracks
Buy new: $6.25 One of the newest additions to our wait bag!
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