12 screen-free activities to keep kids busy on plane journeys

This handy set contains three games that are perfect to play on the plane. There’s a guess who-style game, a connect 4-style game and a pop-and-hop game with a spinnable dice that’s impossible to lose

Is there a kid in the world who doesn’t love stickers? This sticker book is even better because it’s reusable – just make sure they don’t stick them all over the plane instead! Other book themes available include dress-up, princess castle, vehicles and my town if they’re not into animals.

The Tangram puzzle is an ancient Chinese traditional intellectual game that’s still around today. With this travel-friendly set, you get three sets of magnets and a book with 240 puzzle challenges that will keep them occupied for hours!

Though it isn’t an activity per se, this fab kids’ scooter suitcase deserves an honourable mention in this article as it was make your journey 10 times easier. I’m speaking from experience here – we have the unicorn version and my six-year-old absolutely loves it. It’s a great little hand luggage to store everything she needs for the journey, and getting through the airport is a breeze with her on three wheels. It’s available in a range of colourful animal designs if unicorns are not your kid’s thing.

Stickers again, but this time, you use the dots to make pictures. There are eight princess-themed scenes to complete and 500 different coloured stickers in the pack. There are also packs available featuring Unicorns, animals and dinosaurs up for grabs

This screen won’t turn them into a YouTube zombie! It’s a doodle pad where they can let their imaginations run wild, practice writing or even have a game of noughts and crosses.

If you do want an old-fashioned colouring book, this two-pack is fab – you get one monster and alien book and one dinosaur book for less than £3.50.

Since you can’t take a pencil sharpener on a flight, you’ll need a set of crayons that you won’t need to sharpen. These are perfect, and have every colour in the rainbow and then some!

This is a great little book, packed with mazes, puzzles, drawing, colouring, dot-to-dot, spot the difference and plenty of other activities

No need to stress about bringing pens or crayons, just fill the pen with water before you board the plane. Brush the pen over the pages and watch the colour magically appear. And the best thing? Once the pages dry, you can reuse it and start colouring again.

Especially for fans of the famous cartoon pig loved by so many kids, this Peppa Pig activity book has six pages of scenes and three pages of reusable stickers so they can recreate their favourite scenes from the series.

Kids will enjoy lacing the coloured thread in and out of the holes in the double-sided farm animal panels. This is a great one for improving fine motor skills and hand to eye coordination.