Is the Crayola Take Note Dry-Erase Travel Activity Set worth buying?

Reusable, contained, and creatively open-ended — this one earns a permanent spot in the car bag. There’s no such thing as a perfect car ride with kids — there will always be a moment somewhere around hour four where everyone is a little too hungry and a little too cramped and somebody’s earbuds are tangled. But having the right stuff in that bag makes the good stretches longer and the rough patches shorter. My one piece of advice from the trenches: wrap one or two of these in tissue paper before you leave the house and present them as a surprise once you’re an hour in. Novelty is your best friend on a long drive, and a freshly unwrapped Wikki Stix pack hits very differently than one that’s been rattling around the backseat since March. Maisie has already started lobbying for her own say in next summer’s car bag, which tells me we’re doing something right. If you’ve found a travel toy that saved your sanity on a long drive, I genuinely want to hear about it — drop it in the comments. We’re always adding to the lineup, and I trust a road-tested parent recommendation way more than any product description.

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