Travel Kits: A Simple Way to Bless Others Review

I recently had the pleasure of reviewing Travel Kits:  A Simple Way to Bless Others by Donna Rees which is available as an e-book from The Old Schoolhouse Store for $12.45.  Travel Kits:  A Simple Way to Bless Others is a treasure trove of ideas for creating baskets of blessings to bless relatives, friends, or even your own family!

Travel Kits:  A Simple Way to Bless Others is a how-to book that focuses on teaching the reader how to put together gift baskets for others (or your own family) to entertain, educate, and inspire them on long car trips. 

Now that my youngest child is 9, I have to admit that long car trips (or even short car trips) are not nearly as difficult as they used to be when my three children were younger.  They bring lots of things to keep them occupied for long periods of time and we also have a DVD player in the car.  But, I can clearly remember struggling to keep toddlers and preschoolers occupied and happy in the car!  What a tremendous blessing a gift of a Travel Kit would have been back in those days!

Travel Kits:  A Simple Way to Bless Others is an information-packed resource of 93 pages.  One of my favorite aspects of the e-book was all of the colorful pictures.  Just by looking at the pictures throughout the e-book, the reader should be inspired with lots of gift ideas to put in Travel Kits.

In 14 chapters, Travel Kits:  A Simple Way to Bless Others covers everything one could possibly want to know about putting together Travel Kits.  The chapter topics include:The Basics; Let's Get Started; The Plan; Presentation and Distribution; The Package; The Presents; A Little More Detail About Edible Gifts; A Lot More Detail About Books and Stories; A Little More Detail About Games; More Inspirations!; The Payoff; Variations on a Theme; Helpful Websites for Traveling Families; and Now It's Your Turn.

Bonus information at the end of Travel Kits includes recipes for snacks perfect to take in the car, travel tips from others, and a list of recommended books by age.

Not only does Travel Kits provide almost endless ideas for gifts for children and teens, information is also included about how to wrap the gifts, how to present the gifts to the children in the car, and how to identify which gift is to be given to whom and in what order.  So, for example, armed with a Travel Kit as described in the e-book, a mother of young children could dole out one small gift every 50 miles, when crossing over state lines, or every time a cow is spotted - the possibilities are many.

Another aspect of Travel Kits:  A Simple Way to Bless Others that I really enjoyed was the very detailed suggestions given for gifts.  Separate chapters are devoted to food gifts, book gifts, and game gifts.  As well, specific suggestions are given for all of the following categories:

• food
• crafts
• books
• music
• puzzles
• inexpensive toys
• games
• hats
• electronic games.

Lastly, the author of Travel Kits offers several suggestions for variations on the Travel Kits theme.  For example, she describes, in detail, the inspirational message kit she made for her daughter when she left home for an extended period of time.  After reading the book, I'm sure most women could think of lots of other ways the basic idea of a Travel Kit could be adapted for other gift-giving opportunities.

Travel Kits:  A Simple Way to Bless Others is available as an e-book from The Old Schoolhouse Store for the price of $12.45.

The opinions, thoughts, and suggestions expressed in this review are my own.  I was provided with a copy of "Travel Kits:  A Simple Way to Bless Others."  No other reward, monetary or otherwise, was given as a result of writing this review.