When you’re traveling with a child, you’ll know that it is imperative to bring along things to do.  And it needn’t break your piggy bank (or theirs).

Here are a few free ideas to keep them occupied.  Click on the ideas to take you to the appropriate page.

Lovely Cicely Mary Barker flower fairy coloring pages.

1930’s to 1960’s vintage Finnish paper dolls for boys and girls.  Just click on the thumbnails and print.

Handy-dandy handwriting sheets.  Practice makes perfect, you know.

Download a free podcast of Boomerang (Big Ideas for Curious Kids).  [Update on 10.22.10: This link is dead; however, you can purchase episodes, if you’d like.]

Don’t forget to load your phone with applications that are new and interesting.  There are a TON out there–ones that will mesmerize for hours.

And if you’re far past that age where your child needs help in figuring out what to do, lucky you.  You might even catch a few zzzzzzs.

Happy weekend to you all!

[Post image: Airplane Window by julinelli at stock.xchng]