Exciting Travel Toys For a 2-year-old

Your toddler will love creating new friends with this easy-to-assemble felt craft kit. The 46 felt stickers, 4 background scenes, and the idea book are all packaged together in one case.

To get started, kids can follow step-by-step instructions, and then they can let loose and create their own imaginative creatures. This toddler travel toy is super lightweight and fits nicely in a child-sized backpack.

What’s more, it’s definitely affordable and makes a great toy to use at home too.!

Stickers are timeless entertainment and a great way for your littles to work on hand-eye coordination. With that in mind, it’s hard not to get excited about this vibrant activity book with over 100 stickers when shopping for great travel toys.

Your little one will be too busy pairing the stickers with the outlined illustrations to focus on the tedious travel time on long trips. Parents will appreciate how this workbook familiarizes kids with the alphabet and a variety of animals making it a great travel gift.

The very best travel toys for toddlers are so thoroughly entertaining that children don’t realize they’re learning while they’re playing. This Hide-And-Seek Alphabet Pop-Up is as much of a learning tool as a game, the perfect toy for a road trip.

There are 50 buttons to push and flaps to open to reveal upper and lowercase letters and corresponding illustrations. Made from sturdy BPA-free plastic with a convenient handle, this is ideal for carrying around airports or wherever your adventure takes you.

When traveling, it’s easy to lose track of things. With the Montessori Activity Quiet Book, there’s no need to worry about any missing parts or pieces because they’re all sewn together into one soft fabric book – making this quiet book a great toy for travel.

Busy books, or quiet books as they’re often referred to, engage young minds with attractive colors and various activities like matching, zipping, snapping, and tying that all aid with hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills.

This special busy book is small enough to fit in a child’s backpack and machine washable; really, there’s no reason not to have it on hand at all times when you want a compact toy to keep little ones still and quiet!

The BrainUp Busy Cube is like a bunch of toys all in one, perfect for developing those fine-motor skills. This sensory cube is designed for little fingers and involves different activities including a spinner, sifter, gears, wooden beads, laces, a latch and a bell.

The carefully constructed toy is perfect for travel because all the moving parts are securely fastened to natural, non-toxic wood, weighing less than one pound. Your young traveler will be engrossed in the various activities that support motor skills and focus for long stretches of time whilst not taking up too much space in your luggage.

There’s a reason why certain classic toys, like Play-Doh, will never go out of style; the bright colors and pliable texture is irresistible!

Travel-size cans of Play-Doh fit into any bag and can be easily molded, flattened, and shaped while riding in any vehicle, from long car rides to long haul flights – though it works best if they have a flat surfaces like a tray table or car seat travel tray.

Parents will appreciate that Play-Doh is made with non-toxic ingredients and stored in recycled containers, making them ideal for your younger children, in fact, kids of all ages can still enjoy some Play Doh time!

Take-Along Shape Sorter by Melissa & Doug is a fun way for your little one to learn about different shapes and recognize certain everyday items and has long been one of our favorite travel toys.

The soft case holds 9 colorful, plastic shapes and offer two activities (sorting and identifying pictures). With an easy-to-grip handle, even the smallest hands can carry this around without any assistance at all making it a superb toddler travel toy.

A puffy sticker play set is sure to keep little hands busy while traveling and makes the perfect travel toy. With 52 farm-themed reusable stickers and 2 barnyard background scenes, there are countless opportunities for creative storytelling and imaginative play.

When your child is finished, the set closes up and can easily be stashed inside a diaper bag or suitcase.

A soft, lightweight activity book is a must-have travel toy. The Right at Home Quiet Book will entertain your small traveler with adorable, recognizable illustrations and words and things to manipulate on each of its 8 pages (excellent for eye-hand coordination!).

The theme of “home” is comforting to young kids and the personalization on the front cover makes the book even more of a stand-out, superb to give as a travel gift.

We’ve kept everything screen-free so far, but a toddler tablet can still be a good investment for a long flight (especially on budget airlines that may not have screen-back entertainment).

Look for something with good battery life and a durable case – and remember to pre-load your favourite toddler apps!

Just bear in mind the WHO guidelines for toddler screen time.