How to Keep Your Toddler Entertained While Travelling
The summer holidays are here and hopefully this means your holidays are too. Whether you and your family are heading on a UK road trip, or catching a flight to somewhere sunnier, you’re bound to be thinking the same thing as every other parent around the world – how do you keep your toddler entertained while you’re travelling?
Whether you’re travelling by plane, car, train or boat, it can be tricky to keep your energetic toddler happy and occupied for hours. Tonies are the perfect screen-free solution to keeping your little ones entertained while you’re on the road, keep reading to find out why…
Four reasons Tonies make the perfect summer holiday companion:
1. Perfect for Travelling
Tonies are awesome and fun-sized audio boxes for your little one. They are found in over one million homes around the world and are designed to encourage your little one’s imagination to run wild. The Toniebox music player can be used entirely independently by your child while they enjoy their favourite stories, songs and challenges from their favourite characters and heroes.
The Toniebox is the perfect travel size for your little listener to carry around or fit in their bag. The box is also robust, squishy, stylish and totally tumble-proof so it can withstand all kinds of adventures. With seven hours of battery life, you can be sure it’ll last for all those long flights, airport delays and car journeys. Wherever you’re heading this summer, Tonies will keep your toddler entertained for hours.
Tonies have also now designed a pair of awesome headphones and carriers so your child can listen to music on the move and even create their own audio. The carrier makes the perfect travel accessory.
If you’re travelling overnight and your little one struggles to sleep in the car or on a plane, the Tonies Sleepy Friends plays calming instrumental sleep melodies that will have them off to sleep in no time.
2. Favourite Familiar Faces
To make sure your little one is fully engaged with their Toniebox, they have curated a wide character range full of familiar and new faces alike including Peppa Pig, Thomas the Tank Engine, Cocomelon, The Gruffalo and all their favourite Disney Princesses. For the older children, they also have characters like Spiderman, Black Panther and full storybooks like Roald Dahl’s Matilda.
Your toddler can collect and create all their own favourite characters and build up their collection. That’s another great thing about Tonies – they last for years and grow with your child as they get older and their favourite characters change.
There are hundreds of Tonies to collect with new ones being released all the time, from more educational characters from National Geographic all the way to fun singalong Disney characters. Whatever your little one likes to listen to – Tonies has you covered.
3. Making Learning Fun
Tonies are great because they aren’t only super entertaining and fun for your little one, but they are also great ways to help them learn (without realising they are learning).
There are plenty of more educational Tonies characters for your toddler to choose from like Peppa Pig Learn with Peppa, Conservation Crew – Sea Turtle and Horrible Histories.
Tonies even have their own podcast called Today with Tonies, with a brand new episode every single day. This is a daily 10-minute podcast show that’s packed full of exciting challenges, fun facts and funny jokes. Hosts Sam and Tim are always learning new words, visiting new places, dancing to new tunes and discovering awesome facts. Find out more here.
4. Reduce Screen Time
Tonies is also a screen-free solution to keeping your child occupied while you’re travelling. We know it can be tempting to pass over the phone or iPad when your child refuses to settle, but with Tonies, they can just pop on their Tonie character and get immersed in their favourite stories and worlds.
Tonies are made to stretch children’s imaginations and encourage them to find a new way to adventure through audio. Audiobooks are proven to improve a child’s comprehension, pronunciation and vocabulary, as well as the fluency and accuracy of their reading.
This summer, leave the screens behind on your holiday and let your child discover the wonder of Tonies.
New in Characters We Love
Here are some of our new in Tonies that your little one will love listening with:
Narrated by Meryl Streep, enchanting children’s classic The Velveteen Rabbit will transport little ones to a world full of magic, where toys become real, and nothing is more important than playtime. All they need to do is hop this much-loved rabbit on top of a Toniebox. Whether they’re snuggling up, settling down, or setting off on a grand adventure, this one’s perfect for even the littlest bunnies.
Fluttercup the Moshling is ready to welcome all moondreamers, sleep stealers and unic-yawning head-nodders to her magical School for Unicorns, way beyond the rainbow.
All a little snoozer needs to do is hop into their jim-jams, pop Fluttercup on top of a Toniebox, and get ready to drift off into the Moshi Swooniverse.
Featuring three sleepy stories and calming music from the team at Moshi Kids, this collection is great for helping little ones relax, unwind, and close those fluttering eyelids.
SleepyPaws the Moshling koala is ready to climb into bed. Because in the Moshi Swooniverse, something special happens when head meets pillow: it's dream time.
For little ones who are also ready to relax, this snoozy selection is a dream. All they need to do is pop SleepyPaws on top of a Toniebox, get comfy, and settle in.
Featuring two sweet stories, a body scan meditation and a relaxing musical track from the team at Moshi Kids, this Tonie is all about creating moments of calm – at bedtime, or any time.
Thomas the Tank Engine All Engines Go - Percy
Clickety-clack, don't look back, Percy's here to keep little listeners on track!
All little engineers need to do to hop aboard the story train is pop Percy on top of a Toniebox and they’ll be whizzed off to Sodor with Thomas the Tank Engine’s best friend.
Favourite Myths: Greek Myths - Pegasus
From Mount Olympus to the Minotaur’s labyrinth, Pegasus the winged horse has a host of incredible tales to share with little explorers – and all they need to do is pop this Tonie on top of a Toniebox.
This Tonie features six stories based on Greek myths and legends, as told by Pegasus and a selection of gods and goddesses, Titans, half-mortal heroes, and many fantastical creatures.
Favourite Myths: Egyptian Myths - Horus
Fly back in time with Horus, the falcon-headed Egyptian sun-god. Packed with fascinating facts and six stories about the myths of Ancient Egypt, this Tonie’s ready to take little explorers on an epic journey, back to the very beginning.
To join Horus on this whiz of a ride, have your would-be time traveller pop Horus on top of a Toniebox and tune in for some time-travelling tales.
Ready for a singalong? Peppa is (obviously.)
Perfect for little ones who love a good song and dance, this Tonie is packed full of music from the world of Peppa Pig. With 17 songs inspired by the TV show, all your little puddle-jumper needs to do is pop this Peppa on top of a Toniebox and get ready to sing their hearts out with Peppa, George and all their friends.
So, wherever you and your family are heading this summer, make sure to pack your Toniebox and favourite characters with you, for the perfect screen-free solution to road-trip and travel fun.
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