Pinteresting Travel

We're going on a road trip soon!  I want my kids to remember road trips as fondly as I do, so I needed some fun things to do in the car besides eat beef jerky.  I got some ideas off of Pinterest, and I actually made them happen!  First, I made a little travel art box from the idea I got here.

I mostly had these materials on hand, although I did splurge on the 97 cents for a new box of crayons to go in it.  I cut apart some sheets of stickers to add to the kit.  Now I will have stickers and post-its all over the car, but that is the cost of travel sanity!

Also, I made one of those fabric marble maze thingies.  There are several blogs about them circulating, but here is my inspiration.  My maze is about 9 X 11, and I used a scrap of an upholstery fabric, and a scrap of flannel to make it even more tactile.  

There are buttons for start and finish, which I should have sewed on BEFORE I put the front and back together, but I forgot.  SO that took longer than it should have.

 Oh, and I used one of those glass blob aquarium jewels instead of a marble, because I was having a hard time finding a marble.  It slides along just fine, and is maybe even less cumbersome than a marble, so I am happy.  And now I have a whole package of glass blobby things to craft with!!!