So you're flying with a baby or toddler. Maybe you already booked the tickets and now you're panicking a little. Maybe your tickets we're canceled and you're taking a roundabout-this-will-take-forever-but-at-least-we-get-there flight. Either way we've compiled a list of our best entertainment ideas that'll make your flight a bit more bearable:

• LED writing board. Hangman, tic-tac-toe, drawing, math questions - wipe and repeat. This thing is worth its weight in gold.

• Kiddie camera. Hand it over and walk away. They will photograph their own foot for forty minutes and love every second.

• Stickers - and there's a whole strategy here. Thick 3D stickers for toddlers, they can stick them on literally everything and they peel right off. Solid-color circle stickers work for all ages. Toddlers just go to town sticking them anywhere, and older kids can use them on do-a-dot printables or make pictures and patterns. A good rule of thumb: bigger stickers for littles, smaller for older kids.  And the advanced move: take two circle stickers in different colors, stick them only halfway together, and press the other half of each onto a piece of paper. Do this across a whole page and you've made a DIY sequin picture. Tilt it one way and you see one color, tilt it the other way and it switches.

• Masking tape or colored tape. Sounds weird, works amazingly. Stick it everywhere, let them create pictures, roads, mazes. Peels right off.

• Children's magazines + scissors. Ask them to cut out their afikomen wishlist or everywhere they want to go in America. Then look through it together. Buys you a solid chunk of time.

• Books. Bring a few favorites and one or two new ones they've never seen. A book with lots to look at on every page is especially good - you can do search and finds together.

• One notebook + crayons + coloring book per kid. Key word: per kid. Do not share. Trust us on this one.

• Travel Connect 4. Toddlers who like putting things into slots can play with this for a while

• Air-dry clay. Make figures and vehicles and then use them to play. Compact and surprisingly mess-free.

• Loop-shaped snacks on a string. Cheerios, popsim - thread them onto a piece of string and let them make a necklace. They spend ages on it and then eat it slowly.

• The little bottles trick. Give each kid a small bottle with a few treats inside - jelly beans, chocolate chips, croutons, whatever you have - and keep refilling it throughout the flight as a reward for good behavior. It gives them something to look forward to and work toward. Pack a couple of extras because bottles have a way of disappearing.

• Plastic cups from the galley. Ask for a small stack when you board. Toddlers will spend a genuinely surprising amount of time stacking them, knocking them down, and starting again, longer than they'll play with most things you actually packed.

And some more little tips:

• The bassinet row. If you can get it, get it. Even if you don't end up using the bassinet, you can ask the crew to fold it away and use the extra floor space for your baby to play on. Put a blanket down, bring hand sanitizer, and it becomes their little corner of the world, and sometimes even a place to sleep.

• A deflated balloon. If you have a long stopover with room to run around, pack one or two. Blow them up at the gate and let the kids loose. They take up no space and no weight in your bag.

Don't expect sleep - for you or for them. But don't be shocked if they pass out for four hours somewhere over Greece. It happens, and when it does, it is wonderful.

It's one day. You've got this. Drop your tips in the comments! 👇

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