Review: Curious George Travel Activity Kit

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The "Curious George Travel Activity Kit" comes with a variety of things to keep your little one amused no matter which way you travel—boat, train, plane, car or magic time machine. Inside the sturdy cardboard case is an activity/coloring book that provides all sorts of activities for the older set and plenty of opportunities to color for the younger set. Speaking of which I love that this comes with 3 dual-sided crayons (three less things to keep track of). Just be mindful if traveling by car that wax melts if left out in the sun too long. (We found that one out the hard way.) Even, with a little melting there is still lots of coloring fun to be had. And, two pages of stickers to boot.

In addition to the fun solo “doing” activities above there are more relaxed activities like a classic story book and a 3-story CD complete with page turn signals. I love that these books include the “page turn” signals as it was a part of reading books (on dare I say records growing up) that I really enjoyed and it’s nice to share that with my son. Kids can follow along with the first story and listen to the second two. Great for a car CD player or to transfer on to an iPod for other forms of travel that might not have a CD player handy.

The last thing in this kit is a set of 52 Curious George cards that come along with two suggestions for play, “Go Bananas” (think Go Fish) and “Curious Monkey (think Old Maid). Although my little guy is two young for these games, we used the cards for a good old fashioned game of MEMORY and we’ve had lots of fun with it. We first started with just a few cards and added more and more as he got the hang of it.

We really enjoyed this kit (even with the whole crayon melting situation). My only suggestion for the kit would be the same thing I mentioned with the last “book with CD” that I reviewed. I wish there was a code for a download of the audio inside the cover along with the CD.

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[Disclosure:I was provided with a copy of this book to review at no charge and was given an additional copy to give away to one lucky reader. This review is completely my own opinion and was in no way influenced by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing.]

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