How can i keep my 8 year old occupied on a flight to Australia?

DS Lite is a good investment, with some good games on it, including brain training type games. Include games you can play with her as well as ones she can do solo. (You can steal it when she is bored!)

Some paperback story books plus travel agents magazines with info about where you will be flying over as well as your destination, with a small map of the world, so she can chart the journey. This, plus cut out pictures can later go in her diary (no scissors on flight, sadly)

Few magazines/comics with things to do in them, like wordsearches.

Small dvd player + ear phones with some films she likes - as the ones on the airline screens are not always suitable for children.

Some music if she likes it - my youngest son will listen to music for hours!

A really pretty blank book plus pens and colours so she can write a diary, stick in all sorts of things from airline sugar, salt and pepper packs, postcards, tickets and restaurant bills/receipts in.

She might like to take some French Knitting, which she will be allowed on the aircraft. Sadly you can no longer take the opportunity to teach her to knit or crochet, which is what my mum did with me on a similar journey at that age!

My children, who are all quite polite and sociable, usually manage to hook up with other children or even adults on long journeys. We found quite a bit of swapping of seats went on when some other children realised we had some films they liked.

Apart from that, one of those squishy neck cushions is a good idea, as she will sleep for some of the journey. Lots of water to drink is good too, as she will get dehydrated, but buy it airside or it will be confiscated!

If the airlines long haul flights do the same as they do to america on continental. There should be a tv screen in the back of the seat in both first and economy class to keep everyone entertained, with games, films, hundreds of music albums and cartoons! I ate my dinner whilst watching spongebob =]

If you have the money get her the new DSI, Its amazing and im a 12 year old and I can assure you she would love it. It has a camera and you can take silly pictures on the plane as there is loads of effects (it has 2 cameras 1 to take pics of yourself and 2 for other people) SO you can takes pic when you arrive. Also she might have a DS, and heard of pictochat. ON there you can draw with the stylus, and in multi - colour !!!! x

a working laptop or laptop (or a conveyable DVD participant) and a few young toddlers video clips paintings wonders. keeps them entertained AND quiet. Win-win. A deck of enjoying cards or commute sized video games additionally are rather stable for long airplane flights. and inspire sleep! The timezones are weird and wonderful adequate because it particularly is, and a extreme high quality long nap is quiet and powerful. If worse includes worse, %. up a pair of those homeopathic all-organic issues that help young toddlers nod off. I actually have a neighbor who makes use of them and that they paintings like magic- the youngsters are asleep in 20 minutes.

You might find a hand held game a godsend like a ds or a psp, even good old fashioned books and pencils, have a gr8 time and i'm sure that the flight will be fine.

Well, I have siblings and they love to play with the magnetic flight games. Like monoply, four in a row, battle ships.

Colouring in! It always works, it even entertains me! ;o

Watching the tv on the flight in another language that'll make you laugh as it sounds like jiberish ;)

x

Now that's the tough one!!

Please check http://div-airline-travel.blogspot.com/ as it gives you tips on occupying the kids during the flight

All the best !!

ipod with movies on it, or music she likes.(disney etc)

coloring books.

have her start a project or like a scrapbook she can decorate so when you take pictures in australia you can put them in there(:

Btw; im going there this summer!

have fun!

well most airplanes have tvs in the seats so thats a bonus but even thought she may not no meny,, card games are (Y) x

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Candy

Soda

Loud Music