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. (Sadly, some of the car travel classics such as Glove Compartment Games are showing as no longer available - except at a collector's price.)
1. The Only Coloring, Puzzle, Game, Dot-to Dot Activity Book You'll Ever Need
This is one of the more conservative of Klutz's products, in that the "book" is actually pretty much a book; but even the crayons are creatively unusual, in this set of hidden pictures, unfinished drawings, fold-ups, games and more.
2. Draw Thumb People
Inexpensive ($7 or less) "fine art at your fingertips". Contains all supplies needed for this sill art form, for ages four and up.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. Tricky Stickies
More than 300 "clean-release" stickie notes, plus ways to play with them: a window aquarium of sticky fish; Frong Feeding Time stickie game...