Entertaining & Educating with the Playaway View!

We like to travel. We only usually get to a few times a year, but since we live in the middle of a desert, it’s a minimum of four hours to anywhere that we want to go. Shane does really well with road trips, but he’s three, so he definitely gets bored. Whenever we go, he spends a good chunk of time on my phone watching movies.

The problem is, that means that I don’t have my phone! While I love talking to Justin, it’s still nice to have my phone to take photos of the scenery, to check my email, or to play games to pass the long drive. Not to mention that it totally kills my battery. So when I heard about the Playaway View, I knew it was a genius idea!

The Playaway View is a pre-loaded digital media player. It’s a little gadget roughly the size of a GPS that comes loaded with videos like Sesame Street, Little Pim, Shakespeare & even National Geographic! The Playaway View is crazy durable- I don’t even worry about the screen when Shane uses it. You can plug in headphones so that you can take it on a plane or to the grocery store without bothering anyone else, and the rechargeable battery lasts hours.

&The best part of all? The Playaway View is FREE to use! Playaway Views are available exclusively at your public library & can be checked out like a book.

Shane loved watching Sesame Street on the Playaway View & he was so excited to go to the grocery store when our unit arrived because he wanted to test it out! The video quality is really, really good on the viewer, which was something I wondered about when I first heard of it. It looks crisp & sounds just as good. There are only a few buttons, so Shane mastered how to use it very quickly, which was nice since I didn’t have to stop every two seconds to fix stuff for him like I do with my phone sometimes.

We’ll be taking our Playaway View on our road trip next month! {So if you’re looking for someone to play What’s the Phrase with on June 7th, I’ll totally have my phone on me. Just saying.}

Playaway is also holding a contest right now that can help your school win their own $1,000 Playaway starter collection! Teachers & school librarians can enter the contest- one lucky school will be awarded a starter collection.

How do you entertain little ones on road trips?

Note: I received a Playaway View to facilitate this review. All opinions are my own.