15 Items to pack for a restaurant rescue kit
Engaging activities to keep kids busy at restaurants (that's not an iPad)
-Make a restaurant rescue kit → minimal effort, maximum entertainment
Items to help your kid be restaurant ready (besides electronic devices):
- Cheerios or Frozen Peas to keep little fingers busy
- Small toys
- Books that can be wiped off
- A Feather for stroking skin
- A Pen to make simple finger puppets by drawing faces on thumbs and fingers
- Two paper cups and a piece of crumpled napkin or a sugar packet make a shell game → hide the paper under one cup, mix up cups, guess "Where is it?"
- A few crayons and notepad to draw, play dots, tic-tac-toe, wheel of fortune, hangman
- Stickers and paper
- Action figures / small cars/ a few duplos or legos
- A bit of modeling clay or playdough from the fridge
- A magna-doodle or paper and pencil
- A deck of playing cards for sorting and matching
- Simple card games like old main, fish, etc. to play while waiting
- Dominoes → a small set to build with, match the dots, play the real game
- Flash cards