Hi, guys welcome back to my channel in today's video
I was going to share with you my top holiday essentials for kids
These are basically things that we take away with us when we go on vacation and to family
we have a six year old a three year old and a ten month old so I didn't know whether I should focus on a
Specific age or if I should just show you our favorite things that we take away for them
We go away a lot as a family probably three or four times a year
So the things I will show you in this video are tried and tested and work
So I really hope you get some tips from this and yet here we go to the first part
I wanted to show you is the snoozeshade we have had this since we had our first ever baby
It is a blackout. That is also breathable
It has lots of little holes in it, and then if you can see it
But it is also Spf 50 and obviously you could put a towel or a muslin or anything over your baby's buggy
When they're asleep or if you wanted to give them some shade, but what I love about this is it is breathable
And it has these ties all around it so that you can attach it to your buggy
So if you are in like a windy place by the sea it will stay on your buggy
And it also has this little bit so that you can like have a little sneak peek if they're asleep or if they're awake
So yes, we have loved it
I use it all the time even when I'm just in England if my baby is going to sleep in the buggy
I will put the snoozeshade on them so yeah, I love this product next up
I want to talk about some cream
So depending on where you're going if you're going somewhere hot you will want to take some sort of sun cream
But I thought it was worth mentioning this one from Garnier
I really like it because it is quite thin like mist
and
I find that I can get it like the backs of the boys
next very well with this and you know in and around their ears and
Under their like all of the places that are quite hard to reach
I find. This is really really good at reaching those things. I must admit
I still use cream sun cream on their face for my very little ones
Because they don't really know to hold their breath enough if I spray this on their face, but I find this really easy
Especially when your kids are like running around and on the move you can kind of chase them and get them
and yeah I find it really really easy to use so I'm choking on it now the next thing that I wanted to mention is hacks
It's so important to protect your to them from the sun
With hat and I just got these two from next this is so sweet
I thought it would be really cute on my baby, and I also got this one
Which is great as it also protects the back of his neck and although it's a really bright print on this side
It is reversible and just a really like normal Denim on this side
We also have really cute trollbeads from primark as well. I also love applying these Spf suits for the boys
You can get them in really bright colors like this hulk one or we have a really bright minion one as well
So that when you're at the pool
you can see exactly where your children are but they're great because they are Spf 50 and this covers up a
Large proportion of your children's skin I know kids need a little bit of sun
But when it's really hot in the middle of the day
It's great to have these on the kids when they're in the pool also
Love they swim best that you can get I found this one on Amazon
It's called a swim best, and it's really really comfortable you can get it in different sizes and it has these things inside it
they keep them afloat, but as they become more confident swimmers you can take these out so that they're not so
Assistive I guess in the water
And I just feel really confident when the boys are running around the pool wearing a proper life vest
I find that like lower arm bands
Irritate them and they want to take them off and they don't really slow that well wearing them
So I really like these bass in terms of toys around the pool
I normally let them buy a big inflatable when we get there
But I love these visa from the pound shop you basically strap up water for the port and spray at each other
So I've got one for each of my older boys, and they're literally a pound and you're brilliant also. Love dog toys
These have lasted for years. I think they're really good quality
They basically sinks to the bottom of the pool and then my son will dive down and get them and yet
He really really loves them because my two older boys do like going underwater. We have goggles for both of them
I think it's important to get things like this before you go away
Because you won't necessarily be able to find them once you get there
And it's important to get ones that feel comfortable and fit them well
So I've got these ones and these ones are from Speedo in terms of footwear around the pool
We used to always buy these type of crocks for the boys
But they are a little bit clumsy and sometimes my three-year-old was all over in them
So while these are really really great this year? I have bought them the sandal crock. So they're brilliant
They're the same kind of material
They're really really comfortable and the boys can still put them on themselves because they are very simple to Velcro on yeah
I think they're really really good for daytime wear I found these ones on Amazon for 18 pounds
And I will link everything that I'm talking about down below by the way I also wanted to show you the boys birkenstocks
Basically when we're on holiday we tend to just take
Birkenstocks like this and also sandal crocs like this and then in the airport they wear trainers
So these are good whether you wear them in the day or at night
They're really comfortable so I want to see those as well while we're on holiday as well
I wanted to show you these little groves that my baby boy
Basically just lives in I have like about 10 of them that I'm going to bring with us
I love it because it is a whole outfit in one and then he is really really comfortable you
Can get great ones look at this one from?
Next and also from F&F from Tesco. I love them
They're just so comfortable
And they're really like space-saving to pack I also wanted to show you these Mosquito repellent bands
Obviously it depends where you're going, but we're going to spain so there may be some mosquitoes there
And I don't really want to spray the boys all over in Mosquito repellent every night
So we use these when we went to the Dominican republic?
Recently and they were really good the boys didn't necessarily want to wear the bands around their wrist
So I ended up putting them around one of their ankles each, and yeah
They didn't really get bitten very much so so I think that they worked or there weren't that many and dominicans
But I think they're a really good idea
Yeah, I thought it was worth showing you though
I actually ended up buying this in the airport on the way
But I will try and link some down below also for the boys
I love taking away this very concentrated squash from Robinson's it is 0% sugar
You can get it in loads of different flavors
We have summer fruits and black growing an apple
And I just really like it because just a few drops of this turns water into squash
When you go away, if you go to resorts or even when you're on the plane, Etc
You don't want your children to have non-stop apple juice or orange?
There's so much sugar in it so I just buy a water and if they really don't want just plain water
I will just put a few drops of this into it and they drink more fluids
I feel and when we're going to the airport because you can't take drinks through with you
I will just pack one of these in my carry-on and only get through five bottles of water
And then I can always sweeten them up with this if they want me to
We also bring cup for our children because they are still quite young and they spill things all of the time
I will bring a few beakers like this Tommy tiki one for our baby
And then also cut for the children to have around the pool if your baby is imported trained as well
You will want to bring away with you nappies, and swimming mathies as well. I bring about seven nappies per day
I normally use about five nappies a day so that gives me a little bit of extra and
When I'm traveling in my carry-on, I will normally pack one nappy per hour of travel
But we're leaving the house at 10:00, but we're not actually getting there until twelve hours later
I will pack Twelve Matthews in my carry-on
Because you don't want to be without and if your child ended up getting a stomach bug or something like that you will ones have
Extra, so I have been loving pull-ups at the moment
And they will be really practical for when I'm by the pool and also a swimming nappies
And I recently heard a rumor that you can actually reuse
Swimming nappies if you sort of rinse them out and dry them
That sounded a little bit strange to me because they are they say that they're disposable
but sometimes if your baby gets in a pool, and only spends like 10 or 15 minutes in the pool I
Things that you probably can kind of rinse them out and dry them and they will work as well
Maybe a couple of more times
I don't know
I'm going to give it a try this holiday
But they are very expensive to buy so I can see why some mums would be tempted to do that
But you will need this because you do not want the code brown in the pool when we go away as well
I always take a stain remover bar away with us
This is a vanished one, and it literally looks like a bar of soap
This is for my last holiday
So whether you have laundry facilities or not?
You could rinse out the item in a sink use vanish on it and then try and get the stain out
And let's face it with kids there are a lot of stains if you have a baby as well
Definitely, take away a baby carrier with you or a baby wrap if they're a newborn this is so great
especially
when you're traveling on the plane
And when you get off the plane at the other end and don't have a buggy it is so handy to have a baby carrier
Like this, it's also great when you're on holiday, especially if you're going sightseeing
Or hiking or somewhere with lots of spares that isn't very buggy friendly
My baby loves to be close to me and being able to see everything that I'm seeing so yes
This is really handy when you're away
You'll also want to get cameras that you can capture all of your memories on your holiday
I certainly think it's worth investing in an actual like dSLr
If you can afford it, obviously your phone is great, but you can get really good qualities on a slightly better
DsLR in terms of medicine. I always take away a tack alcohol. This is a baby
Paracetamol or baby painkiller just in case any of the children get ill or my baby start teething very badly or get to fever
And I also always take away with me Saline nasal spray. This is good
If my baby did catch a cold and couldn't breathe through his nose this really really helped
I'm also taking away Liquid Amber sulphur any teething pain
And teeth the powder as well
And the last thing I thought that was worth mentioning for my auto children is the books that we take
We still like to read stories at bedtime on Holiday and the Mr.
men books are great because they are so small and thin but they are actually quite long stories and
Also, the Thomas the tank engine stories are very similar as well
So I can take about seven of these one for every night
And it really doesn't take up much space in my suitcase
And I also want to show you this cover that I thought on Amazon
It is basically a big red bag that says date check stroller
and you
basically it soles up really really tiny so you can pack it in the bottom of the buggy and then when you get to the
Gate checks you can put your buggy in that egg
And it's very bright and noticeable so that when you get to the other end
You will see it on the carousel and it all stays together in one piece
I feel like it's a bit safer in that bag
So I'll have a buggy that we take away with us you can buy an official travel bag for it
But it was so much more expensive than just buying this red bags that I found on Amazon
I will link this bag down below and I will put links to everything meyer talks about down below as well
But yes, I hope you like this video, and I hope you've got something from it
Please add any of your tips or essentials in the comments below because we're going away very soon
And I would love to hear them and yes, thank you so much for watching and I'll see you soon