 Hey everybody, welcome to the Waldoch Wave. I'm Jessica and today's video is going to be a Christmas car schooling video. If you watched our holiday traditions video, which I will link right here for you guys, you know that a lot of our traditions involved us being in the car. I talked about us going to drive through nativities and going to look at lights multiple times that year and then doing some donations, all of which, at least an hour away because you guys know we live in the middle of nowhere. We like to go see Santa. We are surprisingly in the car a lot during the holiday season. So I like to have a few fun kind of Christmas-y themed things in the car for Emily to do. Again, I still like to keep her Kindle and her tablet in there for backup, but I just like giving her some things that kind of bring the Christmas spirit while we're in the car driving from point A to point B. So I'm going to share our Christmas car schooling favorites and the things that we are going to be adding to our car this year with you today. As always, we have her pencil box and inside she has erasable pencils, dry erase marker, regular pencils and a paintbrush that has the water reservoir in it. So that way she always has a paintbrush with water in the car. Her stem bin that is portable for on the go. So in here, I have already changed out to the Christmas stem bin cards. So there are cards that can give her inspiration. We have all of the different random Christmas then we also have Christmas around the world. So we have like Christmas in Mexico, Christmas in Italy, Christmas in Germany. So I put all of those in there. And then the things that she has in there currently are Link brain flakes and the Unifix cubes. I like to make sure she keeps a drawing book in there at all times. So I went ahead and traded the directive drawings out for my winter ones. I will link these in the description box down below. So I just put all of them in this little plastic sleeve. So they have like reindeer, snowman, igloo, boots, beanies, all kinds of fun winter things she can draw. And then inside it is just a blank sketch pad. And then I got quite a few activity books if you will. So this was a word search. I think I got it at the dollar section at Target. It's just 50 fun holiday word searches. Pretty sure I picked this up at Dollar General. It is a Christmas mini-create, a face with stickers. She has loved these since she was a little kid. And I thought the fact that they had Christmas unicorns would make her day. The Osborn Christmas Doodle, she has been doodling away at this for a few years and loves it. So I decided to put it back in car school this year. The Osborn Christmas Puzzle Pad. And she actually had one of these a few years ago and I got her a new one because I'm pretty sure she used it up. She loves these puzzle pads. And a year later, she doesn't remember having ever done them. So. And then I got her a few different Christmas sticker books because sticker books are so great for the car. We have the Little Sticker Christmas. The Little Sparkly Sticker Christmas. And the Little Sticker Dressing Christmas. And these little girl dressings are her favorite because you get to use the stickers to dress the little girls up. She also likes that the pages mean you can reuse the stickers as well. So you can dress them multiple times. The Paint by Sticker Kids Christmas. She has done a few of these and there's still a few left in here, I believe. I think there's six left for her to do. But I like, I don't know if you're gonna be able to tell that they're almost like a paint by number but with stickers. So there's numbers in all of those little boxes and you can you match the stickers based by number. We have the Usborne Christmas Magic Painting Book. Again, that's why I keep that water paintbrush in there so she can just paint this in the car. And it will make zero mess. And the reason I like the Usborne ones for the car is because they come with this fold out flap. So you can pick your painting that you wanna paint and stick that in there. And then she can just paint it in her lap and not have to worry about it going to the page behind it. So that's one of the reason these are my favorite specifically for the car. And we have the Usborne Activity Book. So she had the Little Kids Activity Book for a few years. This is the standard activity book. It's for a little bit of an older. And I absolutely love it. I like that she has activities to do. Like I said, with our holiday traditions we spend a lot of time in the car. And then we have a thousand and one things to spot Christmas. So this is one of those where it tells you the different things to spot. So here we have Christmas land and you have to try to find 10 flying letters and five elves chopping, eight reindeer, four snow boots. It just has tons of different things for you to find. And I love those kinds of books. And the last thing I have is books. So I like to keep one or two kind of hands on interactive books in the car for her. So this is Usborne's Peak Inside Christmas. Emily loves anything that she gets to be interactive with so where the little flaps lift when there's things hiding under. So far she has not outgrown them. I'm not sure she ever will. So she likes to do these kinds of things in the car. It's kind of like a fidget. And it also is reading. So I like to keep them in there. So this is the Christmas Peak Inside. And then another one that is interactive is the Nibbles Christmas. And to be honest, I'm not sure you ever outgrow Nibbles. Like he still cracks me up and I'm 34. And again, it's interactive. There's things that lift. And you know, there's like little cutouts and all kinds of fun things for you to do with Nibbles. And so Emily still really likes that one too. I mean, this is like a book in a box in a book. Like it's so cute. And then of course, I always have her Kindle on hand as well. The books that I have already put on her Kindle for her this season are Judy Moody in The Stink, The Holly, Flat Stanley's Christmas Adventure, A Bad Kitty's Christmas, Nate the Great and the Crunchy, and Tum Tum and Nutmeg's Christmas Adventure. And then obviously we absolutely love audio books for the car too. So the Christmas audio books that I have already downloaded are The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, The Family Under the Bridge and The True Gift.