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Our family was recently able to try a fun product called The Trip Clip during our long drive home from Florida (after our December Florida adventure). It seemed like kismet when when Molly from The Trip Clip contacted me about advertising and this giveaway right as we were starting to gear up for our 13 hour drive. Crazy, huh?
This is where I have to give Molly a special shout out about this situation though. You see, part of the product is that you can print out activity pages, and we were printer-less at the condo in Florida. In order for my daughter (also named Molly!) to be able to try out The Trip Clip on the long drive, Trip Clip Molly helped us out by printing out some of the activities (that she let me pick) for us. Now, this was a special circumstance, so be prepared to have your own printer to use this product. But, I appreciated that Trip Clip Molly helped us in a pinch like that.
So, to the actual Trip Clip. My Molly was so excited when it arrived at our condo that she kept asking if she was definitely going to be able to use it when we left. In fact, she occasionally asked when we were leaving because she was excited to give it a try, especially after seeing the four color pen. (What kid doesn’t love a four color pen?)
Although we have three children, only two of them fall within the suggested age span for The Trip Clip, which is ages 3 – 10. Since one of those is a ten year old boy, he just honestly wasn’t very interested in the product, and just wanted to play on his 3DS instead. Knowing this would be the case, I picked out activities only with my seven year old Molly instead.
However, just because my ten year old wasn’t interested, I did like that there were printable activities that really would meet a wide variety of ages. It was nice to be able to pick activities with Molly very much in mind. In fact, her favorite was a word search where I got to put in my own words, so they included things like our names.
Molly spent quite a bit of time during the beginning of our trip completing word searches, color pages, and mazes. (You can see a range of what the printable pages available are here. However, I also found that once I actually got into the pages for choosing what to print, I was surprised at the number of options that are available for many of the activities.)
Although Molly did eventually switch from the Trip Clip to her new 3DS, she still kept going back to The Trip Clip at various times throughout the drive (until it got too dark to see). I asked her several times if she was enjoying it, and she gave it high praises. I was glad that she was able to have a fun activity that kept her busy in a different way than video games normally do during our trips.
The Trip Clip is not just for long travels, but also has printables that are perfect for something as simple as having your child responsible for their very own grocery list at the store. So, this product is great even if you are not usually a traveling family.
The Trip Clip costs $19.95 for the clip board, the four color pen, and ten activities. (Once you pick one of the activities, you can continue to print that same activity out in the future without paying for it again.) I must admit that for that cost, I would be more apt to maybe give The Trip Clip as a gift, rather than have bought it for my children myself. I was very glad to have it, however, and was more impressed than I initially anticipated that I would be. I also still think that it would be a fabulous gift idea!
I’m really excited that we will be able to give away a Trip Clip to one reader! Just enter by Saturday, February 11th at 11:59 pm EST.
You can enter the giveaway by leaving your answer to this question in a comment:
Tell us the age of the child you would be giving it to, as well as what activity you think they would like best.
As a bonus entry (leave it as a separate comment), you can give a suggestion of an activity that you would love to see available for the Trip Clip that is not currently available. (Suggestions that are already available activities will not be counted as an extra entry.)
The Trip Clip is going out to winner of the giveaway – Amanda! Congratulations, Amanda!
The Trip Clip is a current advertiser on The Homeschool Classroom. We were given a clipboard (and extra activities) at no cost to us. The giveaway Trip Clip set will be mailed out directly from The Trip Clip.
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My son that is 8.
I think he would most like Bingo
I would recommend a cursive letter option. My boys have learned it and love practicing.
my 5 year old daughter and she loves mathematics and drawing!
My 5 year old daughter would probably like the sudoku (and all the other puzzles) best). Thanks! [email protected]
My son is 4 and would love to work on the letter tracing pages.
I am taking my three girls on. 13 hour car rise trip in a couple weeks so this would be perfect! I think my 7 year old would love the license plate game!
We have a 7,6 and 3 year old in this house and all 3 would love this! I think they would like the games and puzzles as well as adding and subtracting practice, story telling, and just plain old drawing.
I’d get this for my 8 year old son and he’d love the word search. It might be fun to put in words that deal with the states we were traveling through.
My 5 year old would love the puzzles, especially mazes and sudoku. She loves figuring them out. She would also enjoy the tic tac toe game and coloring pages.
I would give this to my 8 yr old daughter she loves any kind of “paperwork”
One activity that I would like to see would be a license plate game. You could mark off all of the states you see. Or for younger kids, a game where you mark off the colors of each car. You can make it simple for the younger kids–red (or shades thereof), greens, blues, etc. Helps reinforce learning their colors.
You could also offer very short stories for the kids to read and then draw a picture that relates back to the story. My daughter enjoys that and doesn’t even realize she’s learning and practicing her reading comprehension.
This would be for my children 3 and 4 1/2 years old. I think they would love Travel Bingo, my daughter would love the Grocery List, and my son would love the Word Search.
Thanks so much for the chance to win,
Caterina
My son is 4, and he loves word searches and mazes. I think the travel bingo activity would be something different he might enjoy too!
Suggested activity – This could get really complicated, but something having to do with maps might be neat…a map of the trip with significant places and stops along the way for the child to color and follow along with.
I would be giving it to my 5 and nearly 7 year old. The 7 year old has aspergers. He would love the mazes! My 5 year old would have a lot of fun with the Count on it and Driving Directions pages.
This trip clip would be for our 5 year old son. It was hard to decide which activity he would enjoy the most because there are so many good ones but and I know he would enjoy battleship and bingo. 🙂
This would be so great for our 7-year-old! I think she would like the mazes and the “doodle” pictures best! Thanks!
I think that a “word-jumble” type activity would be neat – maybe with pictures at the easier level, and themes (like the way the crossword puzzles are).
Also, some “Mad Libs”-type stories could be fun.
Or a (several?) page(s) of directions for “non-writing” things that can be done in the car, like songs to sing, games like the “ABC Hunt” game – where you have to find (out the window) something that starts with A, then B, then C, and so on…
My kids are too old for this, but I would love to win one for my sister-in-law and her family. They are in the military and move every two years, so this would be great for them on the road!
4, drawing clips
I noticed you had Sudoku. I would like to see KenKen.
I think all my kids (3-7) could take turns with this and would enjoy the bingo.
I would give this to my daughter who is 5. The girl loves word searches! (though, she would also love making her own checklists!)
I would love to give one to my 6 year old son. He loves word searches and mazes. My almost 3 year old would also enjoy it, he loves to color.
I would like to see “spot the differences” activity sheets. The kind that have two pictures that are the same with some minor changes and you have to find those differences.
I think my kids would like the sudoku, and I would love the letter practice for them. Thanks!!
I would like the car bingo. That would be so fun and keep the kids occupied in the car. Thank you for the chance. Leisa
I have a 5 yo, elison and a 3 yo, sylas. They both love tic tag toe.
I would like to see a connect-the-dots activity sheet. Ive been trying to get my 5yo to do those. Its a good way to learn Numbers.
I would love to have the chore list for my 6 year old.
I would give it to my 4 year old son. He would love the mazes.
My son is 5, and he would love the mazes.
My 6 year old daughter would enjoy the writing a story and the doodle pages best.
age 4 and 7 and we would enjoy the picture prompts and hangman
suggestion trivia for the trip you are taking
I guess that would be a custom page
Thanks the gift idea is great too!
I have an 8 year old daughter and 4 year old son. We take lots of road trips and this is something they would love! I like the idea that you can customize your word search, but the kiddos would probably pick the bingo game!
Hi! My 5 year old daughter would love the trip clip! We just got back from a big trip today actually, and I would have loved to have something like this for her to do.. Travel Bingo would be a great hit for Hannah.
My son (age 4) would enjoy this, but the 3 yr. old would probably fight to have a turn too! He loves mazes right now.
I think it would be great to include some dot-to-dots.
My 5 year old likes mazes.
I would love to see some pre-writing skills pages.
Oh, I would love to win this for my 5 year old daughter, Anna Grace. She would love it!! There’s just too many cool things to choose from. I am certain we would print a lot of games because she LOVES those. I think we would print shopping lists, etc. She would JUST LOVE THAT!! LOVE IT!! 🙂
My son is five. I think He would really enjoy the travel bingo on our trip next month!
my son is 5 and would love bingo!
My son is 7.
He would most definitely like the word searches as well as the doodling.
Blessings,
Lori
The kids I would use it for are 8, 6, and 5. The oldest would have the most fun with the creative activities such as “write a story” or “draw”. The youngest would just enjoy the coloring pages. The middle girl would probably like the games once she learned how to play them.
I’m a teacher so I would like to see connections to reading, math, etc. What if you did a social studies page where the kids wrote down various things they learned about a community. You could do multiple levels of this – have a picture and have kids circle the businesses or community helper a community has. You could have older kids look for things like population, what denomination of Churches are in the community, if any famous people came from the community, who the mayor is, etc. I think it would be neat if they had something like that.
For math, maybe you could have story problems where they fill in the numbers such as “the number of stop lights + the number of stop signs” or “The number of restaurants minus the number of pizza ones”.
These kind of things would help kids learn more 🙂
My daughter, aged 7, would certainly enjoy the creative package and The Trip Clip!
I have a 3 yr old and a 5 yr old. The 5 yr old is mad about word puzzles these days. The three yr old loves doodlingng and tracing….anything…numbers, shapes, you name it. I think it would be hard to pick just 7 things!!
I have almost 4 y.o. and a almost 6 y.o.
I like the lists and the travel bingo!
Nice idea when kids need a time out from gaming ( or mom needs the time out from the gaming)
They should have an I Spy ABC game. You’d have to find letters on billboards and signs and Mark them off on your sheet. Or a sight word game. Again, finding and marking off words.
My 8 yr old daughter would love the games section. The dot game and battleship would probably be a favorite.
I would love to see a license plate game sheet for long trips or a color by number picture.
Our 3-yo daughter would love this! I think I’d want to start out with the grocery list one; take her to the store and have her with her own little cart (there’s a store nearby that’s pretty deserted in the evening)…she’d have a ball!
For a new activity idea…I didn’t see a “things you see in church” one. Maybe offer ones for various denominations, but as a Catholic, there’d be a lot of things to find at Mass and it would be an awesome activity to keep them quiet and perhaps even LISTENING! Oh yeah, like for older kids to tell them to keep their ears peeled for certain words like “love” “faith” “hope” “messiah” etc…wouldn’t that be cool?!?
My daughter is almost 8 and would love any of the puzzles and any of the games. Probably most favorite right off the bat would be the mazes.
I would either be letting my 4 or 6 year old daughter use it. I think they would have the most fun with the sHopping list and the tried and true tic tac toe!
My daughters are 6 and would have so much fun playing hangman and tic tac toe together on long trips:)