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Road Trip at Home with World Market

June 14, 2017 by Kaylynn Zoe 3 Comments

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*This road trip at home post is in partnership with World Market, a brand I love. All opinions here are my own.*

Recently, I’ve felt a pull to the outdoors, I’m not sure why …. but the need to be outside, play, and be together as a family has been a constant pull. Thus, the road trip at home idea – but first, the backstory!

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So we did something crazy…. we bought a trailer. A vintage, old-school, charming trailer. I loved it from the moment I saw it and we named her (or him?) “Fireball” because it was a 1969 Fireball. Upon closer inspection we realized we were a tad hasty and hadn’t really LOOKED before buying. It was in need of a few repairs that were beyond our skill level and above what we’d paid for the entire trailer, so we had to let it go.

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When we sold it, I was devasted….there might have been a few tears shed. Those dreams of camping in that sweet little trailer were gone! After that I was bound and determined to create a fun camping / road trip at home experience without my sweet trailer. I had a vision of cardboard cars, games, treats, and a super fun new tradition. Bring it.

I went to my local World Market (not sure where your local World Market is? Find it here!) and found some of the best Outdoor Toys and Road Trip snacks. I had a LOT of options!

First? Cars. You can’t go on a road trip without cars, right? We found a tutorial on Google and a friend donated some boxes. Before we knew it, we had two of the cutest little “cars” you ever did see. We made a day of it. We painted the outside (with craft paint, because we’re classy like that and it comes out with water) a ladybug for T and a bee for B.

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We let the kids “drive” their cars from one activity to the next – it was too dang fun.

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The “driving?” I mean, seriously – my heart. I go back to the sentiment of “why do we buy kids toys when they just want to play in the box?” Point taken – boxes were definitely played in and loved.

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Next, FOOD. To me, the most important aspect of a road trip at home is the FOOD. There’s gotta be dang delicious food in order to keep me happy.

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And OH. MY. GOSH. When I walked into my World Marketand saw these Clearly Canadian drinks about died. The nostalgia is SO real! These drinks transported me back to my junior high days and I bought almost all the bottles left in the store. Can you say obsessed? Husband wasn’t impressed, but he didn’t grow up with this drink. I was hesitant to share with kids because I didn’t want to waste it! (hashtag backwash) but in the end I let T try some and she loved it. The tradition lives on!

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Throughout the evening this little one kept making her way back to the food to nibble. She loved those chips and wanted to take a bite of every piece of candy sushi.

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The first activity we did was the sidewalk chalk stencils – who would have thought this would be so rad? T loved making real shapes and B enjoyed making a huge mess.

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Next, we hit up the basketball toss game and the girls were CRACKING UP. I mean, you need to try this game to believe what a hoot it is!

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Then we “drove” over to the bean bag toss and there were more smiles to be had.

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Little Miss B has the attention span of a gnat and moved faster through some of the activities. Luckily this magna-doodle and binoculars were right up her alley.

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The star of the night was the bubbles – HANDS DOWN. Bubbles and boxes, right? Kids are so simple. These bubbles were sheer joy – watching those kids bust up as they watched huge bubbles float around was so magical.

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Overall, I’d call the road trip at home experience a complete success. Who needs a vintage trailer (insert all the cries right here) or a fancy vacation when you’ve got a backyard, cute games, yummy food, and cardboard cars. Road trip at home SUCCESS! This was much more do-able than I realized and we will definitely be doing more road trips at home. It was way too easy and fun! What would you add??

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Shop this post:
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Food:
Clearly Canadian Soda
Candy Sushi
Maui Chips
Fruit Belts
Sour Worms
Krave Beef Jerky
Goo-Goo Clusters

Games:
Basketball Head Hoop
Bean Bag Toss
Chalk Stencil
Giant bubble set
Toy binoculars

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Filed Under: Family Tagged With: home, road trip, sweepstakes, world market

Comments

  1. Mrs Major Hoff says

    June 22, 2017 at 2:32 PM

    I love this! Sometimes it’s so hard when the kiddos are little! Enjoy your stay-ca!

    Reply
  2. craig says

    July 30, 2017 at 2:02 AM

    Great post and looks like you all had a lot of fun! I particular liked the Basketball head hoop, I think my daughter would love that.

    Reply

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