Family trips during the school holidays offer a golden opportunity to explore, learn, and create together. Keeping kids engaged without defaulting to screens is a common challenge, but Twisty Kids rises to the occasion with eco-friendly, travel-friendly solutions. From our Play Sets to our activity-packed backpacks, we ensure that your family's travel experiences are not only fun but also enriching. Here are ten creative screen-free activities that utilise Twisty Kids products, perfect for your next family adventure.
1. Interactive Travel Journaling
Encourage your children to document their journey in a notebook, embellishing their stories with Twisty Kids Play Sets for added creativity. The reusable wax sticks are mess-free and perfect for little hands on the go — making every page a memorable keepsake from your school holiday trip.
2. Design and Navigate Your Day
With the activity book and crayons from their Kids Safari Backpack, children can colour and plan out the day's adventures. Using Play Sets to mark routes and attractions engages them in interactive and educational travel planning — a brilliant screen-free activity for school holidays.
3. DIY Postcards
Using pages from their notebook, kids can create unique postcards to send to friends and family. They can decorate these with drawings and add textures or patterns with the Twisty Kids Play Set, making each postcard a personal piece of art. A wonderful hands-on activity for kids of all ages.
4. Nature Bingo
Create a bingo card in the notebook based on things to see or find in nature during your trip. This screen-free activity not only encourages kids to observe their surroundings closely but also adds an educational twist to your family adventure. Pair it with a Vehicles Play Set or Animals Play Set to keep the creativity flowing.
5. Landmark Memory Book
After visiting landmarks, kids can create their own representations using Play Sets. Back at the hotel or campsite, they can use crayons and their notebook from the Kids Safari Backpack to document and describe each landmark, combining art with writing for a rich school holiday memory.
6. Personalised Backpacks
Let your kids personalise their Kids Safari Backpack with Play Sets, creating designs that reflect their travels. It's a fun way to make their travel gear unique and a creative screen-free activity for downtime during school holidays.
7. Local Cuisine Creations
Inspire your children to document and draw the new foods they try on their travels in a notebook, then recreate them using the Twisty Kids Play Set. This fun activity teaches them about different cultures and cuisines in an engaging, hands-on way — perfect for curious kids on family trips.
8. Souvenir Storytelling
For each souvenir collected, have your kids write a story in their notebook, detailing the adventure behind acquiring it. They can also create accompanying scenes or characters with Play Sets, adding depth and imagination to their souvenirs. A beautiful screen-free keepsake activity for school holiday trips.
9. Scenic Window Art
Encourage your kids to use their notebooks to draw scenes viewed from the car or train windows, adding elements with the Twisty Kids Play Set to bring texture and depth. This artistic activity captures fleeting moments in a creative and lasting way — ideal for long drives during school holidays.
10. Treasure Map Making
Encourage your children to design their own adventure maps in their notebooks, drawing inspiration from the landscapes and landmarks encountered during your travels. They can use crayons for sketching the journey and the Travel Set for adding dimensional features like mountains, rivers, and treasure spots. This creative task not only fuels their imagination but also serves as a fun recap of the places they've explored, transforming each day's experiences into an interactive adventure story.
Looking for the perfect bundle for your next family trip? Explore our Bundles & Gifts collection for curated screen-free activity sets designed for travel.