Travel Projects #2: CD and Puzzle-Book

            OK, OK, I know that unless you have a laptop, printer, internet access, music Cds, and spare floppy disks in your car, that this may not seem like a travel project. But in a way it is: you can use it in your car.

           This travel project obviously needs to be made at home (unless you have the above items in your car, which is very unlikely unless either your parents are very nice [and very rich] or you yourself are a multi-millionaire [unlikely].) So, before your next extremely long, driving all day, strapped to a seat, nothing to do roadtrip, do this project (need a reason? Take a look at the following equation:

extremely long, driving all day, strapped to a seat, nothing to do roadtrip + CD and Puzzle-book = a fun, exciting , hand-clappin' , dancing , heck of a roadtrip [oh by the way, tell your parents to count this as your math for the rest of the week, since this little equation just saved them a lot of trouble on their next roadtrip and ensured a lot of peace on that roadtrip.])

            Okay, equations (and hopefully math for the rest of the week) done, let's move on to making a CD. Hopefully your dad (the same one that took away your math books [answered prayer ), knows how to do this, because its very hard to explain. The basic idea is you copy some songs off of a few CDs (let's use The Star Spangled Banner, Holy Holy Holy, and Hail to the Chief as examples), onto your computer, and then back on to an empty floppy disk. Now if you take that disk and stick it in your CD player, you can listen to songs from (example: three disks) on one disk! Cool huh?

Now, on to making a Puzzle-Book. In actuallity, this one is very simple, fun, and easy. All you do is the following:

1. Go to the Start button.

2. Click Programs.

3. Click Microsoft Word (or whatever other writing program that your computer has). 

4. Begin to make your activity book. Things you may want to include: Bible verses to memorise, coloring pictures, stories, a calendar (for overnight trips), crossword puzzles and other fun games (here's a link: Discovery Kids Puzzlemaker), a pocket for your CD.

5. Press Control+p. Select print (perhaps a book for each sibling [including yourself]).

6. Staple the book(s) together in the order that you want.

There you go! Now you have it, a CD and Puzzle-Book made in about half-an-hour with little to no mess! How about that?

Bye for now and have a good time on your next roadtrip,

HRTF