Traveling can be challenging, and traveling with kids can be very challenging. So we reached out to all of the Badger moms and dads and asked: what are your best tips for traveling with kids? Read their tips, and enter to win a travel survival kit valued at $95!
Timing
All of the parents agree that timing and planning are tantamount for success.
Sarah, who works in our administration department, has two young children. She stressed the importance of thinking about the time you will arrive at your destination. She likes to time the trip around nap times.
She also allows enough time for bathroom stops and snack breaks. If all goes well, her family arrives with plenty of time to unwind and follow (as close as they can) their meal and bedtime routines.
Anna, our customer service supervisor, suggests little neck pillows and small fleece blankets for a comfortable car nap.
Kristina, who works in our accounting department said involving school-aged children in the planning process helps to engage them in the trip. She has her three children take turns planning the routes and choosing activities.
Snacks
Christina in customer service recently completed a road trip with her three-year-old and one-year-old sons. She suggested snacks that are unique to the trip. Special snacks make the trip a little more exciting.
Jason, our IT Badger, favors salty snacks for his kids. And Anna suggested a mystery snack bag. Surprise and discovery always make a trip go faster!
Games
This was another popular tip for traveling with kids. In addition to screens and books, Badger parents had some unique road trip games.
Lauren in customer service likes to play the license plate game with her kids. The object is to try to identify license plates for each of the 50 states.
Emily in customer service says her kids like “guess my animal.” It’s similar to 20 questions, but the animal must be real and not extinct or imaginary. So everyone has a chance to guess.
Sara in sales says her li’l one loves his Etch A Sketch. Anna suggested several DIY games, including a cookie sheet with magnetic letters.
Jason and Anna both suggested a grab bag or box filled with surprise toys and games. Because the excitement of discovering what’s in the bag helps to pass the time.
Jessica in customer service likes to sing with her five- and seven-year-olds.
Practicality
Derek in our operations department suggests easy-to-reach spare clothes, paper towels, wipes and plastic bags. Because in his experience, “someone will puke.”
And on that note, if traveling with kids just sounds like too much of a headache, simply follow the advice of Emily in administration:
“Don’t.”
Enter below to win Badger’s travel essentials, and be sure to leave your best tips for traveling with kids in the comments below!
Prize details: one each of the following: Klean Kanteen Badger stainless steel water bottle, Classic Lip Balm 4-pack in Green, Mini Badger Buddy toy, SPF 35 All-Season Kids Face Sunscreen Stick, Mind Balm Variety Pack, .75 ounce Sleep Balm, .75 ounce Baby Balm, .75 ounce Night-Night Balm.
145 comments on “Tips for Traveling with Kids (Giveaway)”
Your products are awesome and the BEST!!! especially your sleep Balm. my elderly parents can’t go anywhere without it. We, the entirely family love your products.
Thank you, lweezar. We are so glad that the Sleep Balm is helpful to your family’s good rest. Be well, Emily
We love all the products! Thank you for the giveaway!
We love ALL your products (sunscreen, bug spray, after sun burn, foot balm, lip balm) and bring them everywhere with us! Thanks for creating such a wonderful brand 🙂
I like to travel with the sunscreen.
I love the Ginger Massage oil. It is a soothing aroma to me and helps with the pain in my neck from Arthritis. My niece introduced me to your products and my daughter started using them because they were Organic. We truly believe in your products and wish you continued success.
Love the different balms have many different ones love the Damascus rose facial care items too
I love the sleep balm. It comes in handy.
I love having any Badger suncare in our bag!! I feel comfortable knowing that I’m using safe ingredients while having fun in the sun! Thanks for the chance to win.
I like to travel with the Badger Aftersun Balm and the tinted sunscreen. I took both recently on a trip to the beach and they are great products. The aftersun balm is so soothing and has a lovely scent.
I give the Badger Balm to my kids and let them do the traveling with their kids.
I have to take the bug repellant everywhere. The tin is fantastic, long lasting and pleasant scent.
I love how effective and natural Badger Balm products are. My best travel tip is to always bring a book. You never know when you need to wait and need to be occupied. Wipes are also essential. They’re great for cleaning hands, paws, and getting out spots on clothes.
We love having sleep balm handy, in all new situations.
Badger Balm products are so wonderful! I love the sleep balm especially! It works and smells great!
My aching feet are refreshed and tingly from the sensation of your Foot Balm. A bonus: Both my feet and my sweaty shoes share the awesome fresh aroma of this balm!
So far I don’t have any! Yikes. I have really been wanting to get Badger Balm and the sleep balm.
Your sleep balm is my absolute for travel. I don’t leave home without it
my absolute FAVORITE
Excellent advise….if it’s too much….don’t do it….summer should be as stress free as possible for both parent and child 🙂
I like to create space in the back so I can join the kids too. Sometimes it’s fun to hang out in their space — as long as someone else is driving, of course 🙂
I like the badger balm when walking around in sandals make my feet all dries up and cracky, input them on and put socks on and it’s as good as “new” the next day.
Your Anti-Bug Balm. All natural and it works!
your sleep balm. being in a strange place/hotel in a bed that’s not mine your sleep balm helps me to relax – I can’t travel w/o it
We use the original badger balm on EVERYTHING – could not live without it!
I actually love every product I’ve ever bought from B.B. I recently used the hand salve on an elderly woman with dry hands and she loved it and thanked me so much I gave her mine!! Guess I need to place an order!! I’ve basically purchased most every product that comes in a stick or tin. I love you guys! As a mom of 5… I have travel tips for days!!!
So cute!!
We love, love, love the Headache Soother and Chest Rub during winter travel!!!
Bug Balm Travel Stick! I love to throw it in the back pack for our daytrips. It has gone to the beach, hiking at the park, zoo and many other places with us. Also, I have been putting it on my dry cracked heals, it is so easy in the stick form and my heals feel so much better. Badger products are amazing, I keep slowly adding to my collection.
I like to travel with badger sleep balm…it calms me down at night.
Don’t know if I can pick a favorite product, but we definitely use the night night balm, after sun balm, and the anti-bug shake & spray the most. Definitely our go-to products all summer long! Love it!
I love the sunscreen stick.
I love the sleep balm!
I love the face sunscreen stick because it is small and light to take in a bag for reapplication out in the sun, it goes on easily, and, best of all, my son actually likes to put it on himself!
I love to take Badger Balm sunscreen with my family everywhere!! I love it and it always protects us from the hot Florida sun!!
I love all Badger products, but my favorite to travel with is Stress Soother. It’s my life saver lol, love it! <3
We love your balms especially the sleep and baby balm!
As a kid, my sister and I each had our own “travel tub”. On the lid was a write-on, wipe-off map of the U.S. so we could follow our route and draw it on the map (to learn geography and avoid endless “are we there yet?”). Inside was our personal selection of one-person games, a deck of cards with endless group game ideas, stickers and coloring supplies, and a set of tapes from our favorite radio show, Adventures in Odyssey. And of course, we each had a stash of books!
Need to try the bug balm soon
We use a lot of Badger products and recently my 4 year old discovered her love of Night Night Balm to help “put all of her parts to sleep.” My advice for travelling kids is to just take a deep breath and roll with whatever happens. It all gets easier…right?
I always like to put together a bag of activities that my kids haven’t seen before for road trips. One year it was window markers that let them draw on the windows. Other times it’s brain building puzzles like sudoku. The novelty keeps them entertained!
We always have stress relief on hand and all the lip balms! Keep up the great work. 🙂
I take badger balm sunscreen when travelling!
My kids always loved the square cardboard ‘scavenger hunt’ game. We also spent a lot of time with the ‘colors of cars’ game. Whoever can identify the most different colors of cars is the winner! It’s fun to bring along small prizes for the winners. I also always carried ‘consolation’ prizes, so everyone gets something.
Snacks are also important. I liked sippy cups for the youngest, and juice boxes for the older ones; both minimize spills in the car. Putting the snacks in individual size bags works well. Wipes and plastic bags are also essential. Car tapes or CDs with child singable songs are also fun.
Love to travel with the sunscreen and the headache soother! I feel comfortable putting the sunscreen on my kids and the headache soother works for me without popping any pills. 🙂
Such a huge fan of Badger for our whole family for over 8 years now! Damascus Rose is essential in my winter skin care routine. We love the lip balms, and hand balms year-round. I only use badger sunscreen for my kiddos. Such a great giveaway!
We always take Badger sunscreen with us – in the snow and in the summer! We especially like the SPF 30 Active when we are out sweating in a pit mine in the summer. Travel Tip – My daughter and I travel to music, singing in the car together. When she was small, we would pick an object out the window and make up a song about it, each doing a line. When she got older, we would pick an object outside and have to sing a line of a song that had that word in it (Moon = Blue Moon, Moon River, Cheriberibim, etc.), each taking turns picking a new object when we had exhausted the word (or our store of songs.) Now that she is an adult, we still travel together, and we still play these games – but now we create harmonies and share memories of the places we have been.
Our favorite Badger product to travel with plus to use daily year round is Badger Damascus Rose Face Sunscreen. It not only offers great UVA & UVB protection, but the tinted variety, that I use, provides an all natural foundation. This product in both regular & tinted is the absolute best sunscreen product for the face I have ever used. When we travel, we also take mini travel editions of favorite games. Trivial Pursuit and 20 Questions top the list.
We love to travel with our ginger oil for some post beach pampering!
I always travel with badger sleep balm… It’s nice to have a familiar scent, no matter where I’m spending the night!
I love to travel with Badger Balm because it is so versatile
We love badger sunscreen! For trips, snacks and waterbottles are a must, but we also carry notebooks for tic/tac/toe, hangman, and license plate games. A net for spontaneous bug catching. A wet facecloth rolled up in a mason jar works for cleaning up messes and having an extra cup around for whatever adventure we run into. Finally, when we’re beaching it, we keep some foot powder on deck to get the sand off before we try to put those shoes on again. Have a great summer!
This would help with all my upcoming hikes, camping and summer family adventures. Would love to try more of your products!
I love to travel with my “After Sun Balm” tin. I’m fair skinned and burn very easily. I also tend to not keep up with sunscreen applications like I should. The “After Sun Balm” helps to soothe the irritation that comes from the dryness (well, baking, really) of a sunburn and keeps it moist and hydrated so it heals much faster than without it. Plus, it smells divine! (I’d love to have it in a squeeze tube, though.)
We recently took our first trip with my 1 1/2 month old, scary. I don’t go anywhere at all without my sleep balm and after sun balm! Someone always misses a spot with sunscreen!
I love to travel with the lip balms, because travel always dehydrates me.
I really love the energy balm, makes me feel reinvigorated after every use. My grandma loves the lip balm too.
love to travel with the sunscreen, always keep it in my purse!
I think sleep balm is the best~
My best travel with kids tip is to listen to audio books. Kids love to be read to so listening to a book in the car is a great way to pass long drives. We have a trip planned next week and my daughter has already picked out a Harry Potter to enjoy on the ride!
Appreciate the sunscreen. Would like to try more products.
Traveling always dries me out- so badger balm for hands, balm for lips, and then something to help me sleep away from home, sleep balm, is awesome!
love traveling with sleep balm helps me sleep when i am away from home
We love to travel and stay relaxed and have fun.We usually
go camping with the tots and babies for weeks at a time too
but we always have some of your most essential products that
we love with us.My favorites are the Badger Sleep Balm and
the your SPF 34 Badger Anti-Bug™ Sunscreen.I also love the
ginger scented,organic Badger Muscle Rub!!These products are
so amazing and necessary for the happiest of trips!!LoveXX
all of these products and would love to try more.Thanks so
much for this fantastic opportunity. 🙂
Soooo lovely! Your products are brilliant. So much travel essentials to name… sunscreen (especially your SPF 34 Badger Anti-Bug™ Sunscreen is great: all you need in 1 product) and your sleep balm is a must for me as a bad sleeper 😉 Fantastic that your brand/ products are natural, sustainable, a big heart for charity and cruelty free also!!!!
Thank you so much for this amazing chance
Sleep Balm
I absolutely love all your products, I am so grateful to have found you guys on a whim while looking for safe beauty products!! Now I use you guys for everything, from my baby girl to the man of the house!! THANK YOU
When my kids were younger, I used to pack a “car bag” for them with all the usual stuff like crayons, coloring books, healthy snacks, etc. But they are older now (10 and 15) so they pack for themselves. I try and (usually) succeed in not interfering, but I provide items for them to choose from that will help them make good decisions. This includes stocking the pantry with organic low sugar snacks for them to pick from, laying out some new sketch books and pastels that I got just for the trip, and letting them pack whatever they want to wear without comment from me( even if it doesn’t match!:) We also take a trip to the Public Library for some books for the car or beach. One thing they both always ask for is their own tin of Badger Sleep Balm! They are both light sleepers and have trouble sleeping away from home, and the Sleep Balm is like a Magic Wand!! It really helps them unwind and get some good sleep so there is no drama from tired kids on our trip!
I love traveling with your sleep balm, it’s the best to relax on the plane!
I have officially fallen in love with your kids sunscreen and badger bug spray. We used the baby sunscreen since my daughter was born, but after trying the active kids?! It took my love to a whole new level. Thanks for making such amazing and “good for you” products! We are badgers for life 🙂
Love the nighty night balms for myself & my little. And the anti-bug balm- don’t go up north without!
Badger Balm & sunscreen!
I absolutely LOVE Badger Balm’s Stress Soother! The tangerine and the spearmint and the hint of chamomile is just divine, and it really provides me a sense of calmness and relaxation! I use it all the time, in all types of mood!
sunscreen is our fave to take on trips, it smells good, it absorbs quick, and we are all about keeping our skin protected and avoiding burns and future skin issues
We cannot live without your sunscreen products. They all work amazing and we especially love the white tinted sunscreens. We always know when to reapply. No more sunburns for us!
I love to travel and enjoy safely the sun with your sunscreen:)
I love traveling with headache so other and cuticle balm!
badger balm!
I love to travel with sunscreen… You always need it!!
What a great giveaway! Love your products.
I love the badger cuticle cream. Smells so good and leaves my cuticles feeling so soft 🙂
Sleep balm is always in my bag.
I love the headache soother, I keep a stick in my desk at work and in my purse. The smell of it helps a lot to distract me, I always have some with me!
The sunscreen especially during the summer!
So sunscreen is an ESSENTIAL. Even if we’re traveling to the grocery store, or the library, we ALWAYS have it. Who knows when the babe will want to play outside!
SUNSCREEN! I don’t leave the house without it!
Sunscreen and snacks are a must!!
We’re big fans of the many Badger products we’ve tried, but we really love the new Sunscreen Lotion. So easy to apply!
The sleep balm helped me when I was sleep training my child. I rubbed it under his nose and one his temples during our bed time routine! Thank you badger balm!
Would love to win this. Love badger balm.
love badger balm!
It’s important to have fun, but I think it’s equally important to ensure safety during travels as well.
If kids are carrying their own back pack, it might be a good idea to stash away their ID & contact info inside, as well as on themselves such as inside of their pockets in case they get separated from you.
Also, if you’re going to a large sized theme park during summer holidays where there are lots and lots of people out at the park, or international travel during the holiday season where you are literally bumping into people, you might want to consider investing in a child locator or a child cell phone, especially if there are many kids that you have to look after & or you have kids that are super curious that they run towards whatever their interest takes them.
Finally, it always helps to talk to your kids about the importance of safety and how keeping safe means being able to enjoy all the fun stuff uninterrupted.
Thanks, Kaori! Those are really great tips to remember – we appreciate you sharing this with the Badger community!! 🙂 -Jentri
Always nice to have the car smelling great with Badger products!
What a great giveaway! I always keep a spare tube of Lavender & Orange lip balm in my travel cosmetics bag!
All of your products are fabulous! Something effective, reliable, and earth friendly at your fingertips for travel and everyday use!
Love your aromatherapy balms – particularly the Cheerful Mind! I take these everywhere I go, near or far 🙂
We love Badger Balm products & always travel with plenty of lip balms!
definitely your lip balms !
My best tips for traveling with little ones is definitely a good variety of happy uplifting music, good snacks, great moods and a lot of Badger Balms stress soothing- and meditation balms 🙂
Love the headache balm! 🙂 a life saver
I always travel with your insect repellent.
Love love love to travel with your lip balm and sunscreen! I can’t stand when my lips start to feel chapped so your product keeps them kissably smooth and smells great! Also the sunscreen is a must to keep my skin safe and I always share with my family! Thanks for the chance!
Best travel tip- assume it will go well. Believe your kid can do it, bring favorite things, and go with the flow.
We love to travel with the sunscreen, use it year round in the Arizona sun!
I have to travel with sleep balm.
I enjoy hiking and camping but it’s hard to find effective non-chemical sunscreens. I do love BadgerBalm’s Sport sunscreen line for my hikes on the weekends!
My favorite essential products are the SPF 35 Sport Sunscreen for umatched mineral protection while hiking and cocoa butter lipbalms!
We love all the badger balm products we’ve tried. We always travel with badger balm sunscreen. We have active, tinted, Damascus rose tinted and baby sunscreen. We are prepared for the outdoors!
Just found these wonderful products! I have been using the after sun balm and love it. I will be purchasing more products in the near future.
I love all the Badger Balm products I’ve tried. I cannot wait to try more! I never travel without my little tin of Tension Soother. Helps me sleep like a baby.
Would love to start using Badgerbalm products!
I always bring Badger Balm sunscreen with me!
Can’t forget badger balm sunscreen when travelling!
I adore Badger Balm products , they are amazing quality and smell incredible
I LOVE sleep balm! Can’t wait to try the headache remedy.
All season face stick is a great travel product.
I bring the unscented Badger Balm everywhere I go. It works as both a lip balm and all-around moisturizer, and it won’t spill in my bag.
We love all things Badger!!! Hard to pick a fave but I could never live without my Badger Balms!!!
Love badger products, especially headache relief! My kids prefer it to bite balm
Great giveaway,and cool tips for traveling!
Thank you for this amazing giveaway! I love Badger! ❤️
Sleep Balm
I love traveling with so many Badger products, but especially my Sleep Balm and Original Balm.
Love baby balm, still use it even without little babies.
I would be hard pressed to find a Badger product I didn’t like. Thank you so much for all you do!
I always travel with sunscreen, bug spray and lip balm!
I would love to win all these goodies! My family and I are all Badger lovers!!! ❤️❤️ thank you for your great quality products!! xoxo
We live in Florida and it gets HOT in parked cars. Put a light colored towel over your carseat to keep the metal buckles from burning. You can also leave one of those blue frozen bricks on top of the carseat to keep it cool.
We carry disinfectant wipes and potty reducer or a small potty for when they just cant make it.
ALWAYS keep Badger sunscrren on hand and we also use AfterBire for when the mosquitos strike.
I love sunscreen, baby balm and lip balms
I love the Sleep balm to help me drift off and the joint rub because I’ve got Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and it helps my joint pain 🙂
Forgot to add, we always travel with the baby sunscreen from badger. It is an absolute essential item.
Good music or audio books are essential for a road trip with kids. I would love to win! Thanks for the opportunity.
I always pack lots of art supplies for my daughter. We pack our boogie board too, which is an lcd drawing screen. Great for playing hangman, tic Tac toe and so on!
I love your products. I love the sleep balm and the focus balm.
We always take our baby sunscreen when we travel. In fact the whole family uses it!
I never leave the house without sunscreen or bug spray in the summer!
I don’t have kids, but I can empathize because I travel with a sensitive and needy dog who can’t really tell me what she wants or when, like kids can – so it’s even harder! Treats, water, toys – not to mention poop bags, training clicker, and so much more are necessary. I love your sport sunscreen so I can stay outside all day and play with my dog in or out of the water. It works better than any other sunscreen I’ve tried and it doesn’t irritate my skin like other brands. I always bring it camping and a bottle of it lives in my backpack.
Fur-babies need special attention, too! 🙂 Thanks for sharing with the Badger community! -Jentri
I love the after big balm, I have sold many of them at the store I work at. Works like a charm
I love using the bug repellent sunscree . It smell amazing and works so well!
I love every Badger Balm Product!!! My son and I always use baby balm, night night balm, bug spray, Lime rocket lip balm and baby sunblock. We loved the coco butter moisturizer when it was around. Badger Balm will always be a part of our family and we take them with us where ever we may go! Thank you Badger!
I travel with sunscreen
I’ve always wondered about your awesome brand but haven’t had the chance to try it! Now that I have 2 little ones, these seem like essentials! Would love to try it all!!
We are hard core obsessed with badger sunscreen!!!!! Love love love love love. We always take it with us everywhere we go!
We love love all your products. We travel with pretty much all of them. But night night and after sun is our go to. Also, face skin care line and men’s hair beard oil
Love to travel with vanilla orange sunscreen for my kiddo – and traveling advice is to keep in conversation with them, even when they aren’t talking back!