We have just got back from our first-ever family holiday abroad this summer, and we searched high and low for ways to keep the kids busy. If keeping them occupied in the car isn’t hard enough, we were extra nervous about how they would react to a long wait in the airport.
Now there’s nothing I love more than giving something back to my readers, and to help those of you in the same dilemma as me, today I am offering you the chance to win a LEGO Builder iPad Mini case*! Because let’s face it, as happy as I am to let the kids use the iPad, sometimes it’s nice to encourage a little time away from the screen, and this product lets you have your cake and eat it.
The case itself will fit the iPad Mini (1 & 2) and the iPad Mini 3, and the back features a work board that is perfect for building LEGO structures on a stable surface when you’re out and about.
Plus, when you consider that around 5-10% of LEGO’s sales are for adults, you can’t deny that you’re not tempted to get one for some sneaky play therapy!
The iPad case is courtesy of Cash Generator, a high-street retailer who sells second hand iPads at affordable prices.
So how do you get your hands on this iPad case? It couldn’t be simpler: just leave a comment below telling me where you would use the LEGO Builder iPad case this summer and the best reply wins!
The winner will be selected from all entries received within 3 days of the giveaway closing – good luck!
*UK entrants only.
Mine enjoy watching movies on their iPads. We also play word games and take plenty of stops for fresh air.
ipads, books or sticker books
eye spy
Good music to sing along to x
Card games, sticker books, ipad for watching a film
My two have special boxes for long journeys – snacks, colouring books and a new £1 toy.
would love this x
Would love it 🙂 xxx
A good music compilation album and classic I-Spy!
Games, sing-a-longs
Variety: a few songs, a book or two, time on the ipad/DS 🙂
keep them busy with DVD’s, DS games, books.
Playing eye spy
Fab prize
We play games when travelling on ours, keeps my son occupied for hours!
The ipad is great for tv and games
Singing along to the radio, eye spy or who can go to sleep the fastest!
iPad & Lego, say no more!!!!
The iPad is good, but they also enjoy spending time having us explain to them lots of the things that we are passing.
sing alongs
Music
Ipads and books
We would use the case when travelling (in the car, on a plane) & we’d use the back of the case as a base for building!
Singing along to cds .
Sticker books will usually keep them busy for a while.
iPad, books, games and snacks
eye spy
Days out long car journeys ??????????
Innotab
we always seem to play i spy but it does get silly
Films and Ispy
Nintendo 3DS
Eye Spy.x
We listen to music, take books for them to read and play car games 🙂
Playing I spy type games and using sing-a-long CDs
tire them out with some lionel richie!
Singalongs, puzzle books, ipad and magazines.
car games & the ipads
ispy
eye spy or counting numberplates
Playing Eye Spy or letting them use their iPads
ipads and dvd players
Music. I find looking at things such as books or a tablet makes them more likely to be travel sick.
Music, Tablet, Eye Spy, DVD player, depends on the journey, just chatting the journey away
Listening to audio books as a family, currently listening to Harry Potter. The whole family love it
eye spy!
Ela B
we play spotting games, one of us chooses 6 or 7 things to spot and the others have to spot them
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iPad, I spy, ps vita
Playing I spy, and sometimes a film with a portable DVD player
My daughter loves the dolly sticker books
watching a film on the ipad
Sticker books and plenty of snacks!
playing first to spot
Nursery rhymes and singing
I pad
food!
Cbeebies App 🙂
I plug them into the ipad for a a film
Playing be the sat nav (turn the volume off and let them do the sat nav voice)
audio books for them to listen along to!
bingo. Before we go on a big journey, I create ‘bingo’ cards of lots of things we might pass (‘yellow car’, ‘police car’, ‘three birds walking’) and Child and I try to spot them.
Movies are the thing to use now. Used to be different coloured tshirts and first to spot 100 cars of their colour.
I would use it on long journeys and carry a little bag of lego to also take with me, so that I can build and create when I become bored
Lots of puzzle books!
My 2 usually have ipad minis to keep them occupied with games and a downloaded film or 2 🙂
ipads, colouring books and their favorite music on the radio
Playing eye spy and colouring books
Ipad everytime!!!
DVDs
Playing games on iPad apps
cartoons on the tablet and making a list of things to look out for
For car journeys, we play the car hunting game… minis, yellow cars, convertibles etc, for flights and trains, iPads a winner!
portable DVD players
What a great idea! Always trying to get the boys away from technology for five minutes but difficult when out and about and they get bored. A few bits of Lego in my bag, cover the screen and play together- love it!
iPad and books
the ipad and lots of colours and pens xx
Listening to audio books.
Travelling long distance is definitely the time i’m most grateful for technology! It keeps them entertained for hours.
playing eye spy
This is a lovely comp thank u very much
eye spy and yellow car
Playing Eye Spy
portable dvd player or tablet!!
animal bingo !
Car games, colouring book, ipod, books
Singing along to the frozen soundtrack unfortunately…..
Lots of car games!
Mine play on the ipad, or play with their figures, read books.
A DVD on in the car and lots of games and magazines to read
a portable car dvd player
Lots of new games and activity books and making sure there’s lots of snacks.
Snacks, songs, ipad.
playing games, eyespy etc.
songs, fruit and i spy
Games, sing a longs, films on the tablet
Playing car games like I spy she loves it
audio cd
I spy, music and suggesting he takes a nap! hahaha
gadgets books and colouring books
We play games like eye spy, spot certain coloured things or read.
watching films on the tablet
ipad, etch a sketch, sticker books
watching dvds
I just lock then in the boot
we play a game where we count all the eddie stobart lorries, we work up to our ages and depending on how fair we are going we do out families house number, see if we can get that high, my mums is 98 and ours is 219 for example, kids love it 🙂
playing games that involve spotting things
Car Games, books, iPad, ds
We play games like I spy, counting a certain colour car/lorry. Listen to music, sing along.
The DVD player is handy, but we also have a great spotting game called ‘Are we nearly there yet?’ which I prefer because I can play along – I can’t watch the DVDs.
We play mini punch
Portable dvd player, art things, music
talking books
Amazing prize 🙂 x
We love trying to spot what we’ll see next 🙂
Car, truck, bike etc
when my two were very young we’d sing nursery rhymes, but now it’s music, films, apps, texts ect.
He loves his iPad so he has that, but also he loves listening to music and talking about things we can see out of the window on our journey
movies on ipad
It is the ipad – how times change!