Long Island's Best Indoor Activities For Kids

5) Girls love to play grown up at this age so have a tea party for the girls. Either find a locale that has tea time or do it at your house. Tell the girls in the invitation to dress up and then serve tea and finger sandwiches with the crust cut off. Discuss the ritual behind drinking tea such as putting your pinkie up!

One of my favorite challenges is when my publisher asks me to write a song based on the exact version of a Bible verse. It's fun to create a song based on Scripture because music is a great way to memorize God's Word!

4) For the boys consider having a superhero party. Have the guests dress up as their favorite superhero and provide activities based around Spiderman, Batman, Superman, etc.

6 Consider a portable DVD player. You can now get them as cheap at $75. Here's a list of the best portable dvd player buys. Have the batteries fully charged for many hours of play. Bring the DVDs in paper or plastic sleeves, not the full case, so they don't take up as much room. Here's a link: DVD sleeves.

Bring a portable DVD player and some new and favorite DVDs, but try to use them sparingly. We found that the DVDs worked best in the emergency situations vs. having them watch them the whole 500 mile trip. So Nemo (their favorite) allowed us to finish the last 100 miles in one day, and a few new ones that we saved for the trip home got us the last 100 miles on the way home. Also get Find The Best Adele Song Lyrics for the DVD player if you don't already have one.

To survive the trip out of Lambert airport, a little egg of silly putty and an Ipod can go a long way towards distracting just about any child older than an infant. A few favorite kids songs and an audio story on the Ipod complete with independent button choices can go a long way. Walmart, among other retailers, sells small, kid-sized ear buds. A movie option might also help distract the peewees on the flight. Thankfully, many international flights now offer this. Also, be sure to bring a snack. It's hard to say what kids will be interested in at the airport while waiting for flights, and while trying to find the hotel after disembarking. Some dried fruits, and nuts, seeds, or dried meats can help prevent meltdowns as the hours of the day transition due to traveling across time zones.

There are actually two more I want to mention here. These are the F and the B chords. Of the two, the F is the more common, often paired with the C and the A chord. But both are perhaps less common than the other 5. These two are important for another reason. If you know how to form them, particularly in their full bar variations, you can move them up and down the neck of the guitar to form any of the other major chords you need.