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Top 10 Klutz Activity Kits for Car Trips

By Teresa Plowright, About.com

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.
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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.
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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.)
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4. Klutz Kwiz - all grade levels

For different grade levels; with a Klutz Kwiz Gizmo to unlock the answers.
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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.
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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.
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7. The Etch-a-Sketch Book

Includes book, attached Etch-a-Sketch, and fun stuff to do with it.
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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.
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9. Best Card Games in the Galaxy card games activity kit

Even comes with plans for an "architecturally sound house of cards."
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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...
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