ideas for portable travel crafts for 4 and 9 year old girls?

they must be easy and compact to carry in plane and car
besides coloring books and crayons please!
thank you! all ideas, homemade or store-bought (preferably homemade) are welcome! XD

a small dry erase board. for some reason kids like to use the markers and then erase them immediately. I bought my son a small one at Target from the $1 bin.

silly putty.

rubix cube.

Pinhead, or I think that’s what they use to be called. They’re found in the toy section and are around $5 (and now plastic). They’re usually a small square or rectangle and have pins in them and if you put your fingers on the underneath side, an imprint of your fingers or whatever is apparent because the pins are being pushed back through the holder. Not at all dangerous. Probably close to impossible to hurt yourself with the plastic pins. We have one in the lobby of the office where I work and EVERY kid, ages 2-15 ALWAYS messes with it the entire time they’re there.

print some sheets off the internet for connect the dots or the abc’s. abcya.com is broken into age groups. i’m sure there’d be something age appropriate for both. A word search for the 9 year old. Maybe some “I Spy” pages for the 4 year old where she finds certain items in the collage of pictures on the page and colors them.

Deck of Go Fish cards.

Bracelet or jewelry making kits. Put different shapes of beads in small containers and take some string with you. Let them string the beads into a necklace or a bracelet.
Or just use different colors of embroidery thread or yard and them them braid the string for the bracelets.

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