Visor Clips for Kids- Road Trip Car Behavior- Mother Daughter #pinchallenge Number 3

We take a lot of family road trips. As a family of seven, let’s just say it’s not always been smooth sailing, er, driving. One of the most popular posts here on my blog has been my post on how to have a successful road trip with the kids. It’s jam packed full of ideas to make the time go by a little more pleasantly.

Well, when I found this awesome pin from the blog Less than Perfect Life of Bliss and her amazing idea of behavior clips for the car, I knew this had to be our next 52 Weeks Mother Daughter Pinterest Challenge project for our new years road trip to Nashville. My daughter, who sits in the back with her four brothers, was absolutely on board with the idea!


It was literally the morning of the trip when we got the idea to make these (we planned to leave around noon). We pulled out what bit of scrapbook items I have left, and realized it wasn’t much. So, I decided to snap pics of each kid real quick and print them out from our home printer.


So, here’s how it went down-


Supplies-
Photos of the kids
clothes pins
colored paper
stickers
white glue
hot glue
scissors

First, we cut out the photos, and glued them with white glue to the colored paper, then added a sticker for decoration.

Next, we hot glued the photos to the clothes pins. Make sure you glue them facing the correct direction so you can see the faces when they’re clipped to the visor.

Now, to make these most effective, I threw a little incentive behind
them. Instead of only a punishment should their clips be taken down for
poor behavior, I set a timer on my phone, and ever two hours, if their
clips stayed up, they earned a dollar. This dollar they were able to
save or spend at our pit stops. Most the kids kids saved their dollars.

I have to say, this entire concept worked exceptionally well. No one lost their clips, the entire trip, and not only because I was being merciful, but because they actually wanted their clips to stay up.


So, check another pin off of my boards as done. We liked this one, but I do recommend not waiting like we did until the morning of the trip to make these.
For more info about this pin challenge, and to join in, make sure you check out the full post about it HERE.