For your next car trip, try an activity kit made by the ultra-creative company Klutz Press, which publishes colorful, original hands-on "books" crammed with neat stuff and activities. Prices range from $4 to $12.
1. Amazing Booka-Ma-Thing for the Backseat : Hands-on Games, Activities
Created to banish the blackseat blues: kids can push, pull, write on, or puzzle over this "Swiss army knife of books"; even the covers are fun. (The front cover's a sliding puzzle, the back cover's a pinball machine).2. Glove Compartment Games
The name says it all: here comes fun for the car, courtesy of wild'n'wacky Klutz Press.
3. The Adventures of Brenda Bender: Bendable Wire Heroine
Brenda's four inches tall, made of flexible coated wire, and has magnetic handsd and feet; comes with a book and a tin to live in. (There's a Joe Bender, too.)4. Klutz Kwiz - all grade levels
For different grade levels; with a Klutz Kwiz Gizmo to unlock the answers.5. The Most Incredible, Outrageous, Packed-to-the Gills Sticker Book
For a certain age of child, sticking on stickers is a fascinating (and quiet!) activity.6. Kids Travel: A Backseat Survival Guide
Not so much a "Guide" as a survival kit, with book, games, crafts, puzzles, crosswords, mazes, plus a zippered vinyl pouch that holds all the supplies-- brought to you by the imaginative Klutz Press.7. The Etch-a-Sketch Book
Includes book, attached Etch-a-Sketch, and fun stuff to do with it.8. Road Trip Trivia
"A Big Book of Backseat Brainteasers": creatively packaged, of course. Each pages has five questions; answer by sliding a peg to a multiple-choice answer. Flip the book over to see the correct answers.9. Best Card Games in the Galaxy card games activity kit
Even comes with plans for an "architecturally sound house of cards."10. Klutz The Only Coloring, Puzzle, Game, Dot-to-Dot Activity Book You'll Ever Need
"120 pages of crayon-and-paper play, including hidden pictures, unfinished drawings, mazes, fold-ups, games, giggles and goofy stuff"-- comes with special crayons, too.