Believe or not, stickers are essential items for young kids while traveling, whether by plane, train, boat or car. There's something about a slick, fresh sheet of shiny, new stickers that gets kids turnt up, er, excited. Stickers also keep kids occupied while they figure out how to pull the stickers off the sheet and decide where they should go–on the tray table, on the little airplane cups or most likely, on your face.
But stickers can also have a short distraction time. Meaning, once the stickers are pulled off and placed on the paper/tray table/your face, there's not much else to do. Which is why you need to keep your sticker portfolio filled with different themes, shapes and sizes. And having a few secondary ideas for the stickers up your sleeve doesn't hurt either.
Now, thanks to Pipsticks, a monthly sticker subscription service, your sticker collection will always be exciting, and more importantly, easy to pack up and take with you.
The service was created by mom of three, Maureen Vázquez, after she was disappointed by the lackluster response to sticker club chain letters. Which is why each Pipsticks packet arrives in a fun, semi-sheer packet with at least 15 sheets of different kinds of stickers, along with one postcard to decorate and send out to whomever they like, and a few extra pieces of colored paper so the stickers don't end up on your face.
You can also visit Pipsticks blog, Let's Stick Together, for craft ideas on how to use the stickers.
A year-long subscription for Pipsticks is $155, with a new packet of stickers arriving on the first of every month. So about $13 a month. A six-month subscription is also available for $80 (just a little over $13 a month.)
If you have more than one kid that gets excited about stickers in your family, you can do the Family Club plan which will send three times the amount of stickers. Those prices are $365 for the year-long subscription and $190 for the six month. That may seem like a lot of money to spend on stickers so if you're uneasy about that, you can always order a one-time Sticker Taster Pack for $15.
But as with all subscription services, what you're really paying for is the delivery convenience (the packet is also perfect for stashing in a carry-on or travel tote) and the variety. And of course, the glee as your kids sticker up the joint.
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Disclosure: Pipsticks sent us a sample packet to review but we promise we'd never endorse anything we didn't think would help you while traveling.
