The £1.40 household item that mums swear by when travelling with kids – and it stops tantrums on flights
A MUM has revealed the "weird" item she never leaves behind whenever she goes on holiday with her kids.
Along with toys, snacks and games, parents have learnt to repurpose everyday household products to keep their children entertained and stop them screaming for the whole flight.
In one of her latest videos, she revealed why a simple roll of painter's tape is the item she never leaves behind when travelling with her youngsters.
She explained the many different uses she has for the tape, along with footage of her kids being both entertained and kept safe by the simple DIY product.
She captioned : "Save this for your next plane ride with kids!
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"Painter's tape guys - I swear to you. It’s great on the plane but also on vacation.
"Label the kid’s cups, a bandaid for when your toddler 'really needs one,' taping over locks and drawers you don’t want them getting into. The list goes on.
"It’s forever the 'weird' thing I bring on trips."
In addition to the safety and entertainment uses, Nichola also revealed several practical uses for the tape too.
She made a cup holder out of the roll on her tray table, so that she could have her son's drink on there as well as her own, while he used his own table for playing.
A snack holder was also fashioned using the tape so her son had access to his own food when he got hungry.
Furthermore, she also used it to teach her kids how to count and how to make letters, as well as to make a race track for her toddlers to play with at their hotel.
Plenty of Nichola's 32,000 followers were very impressed with the hack, saying they'd try it out themselves in the future.
One wrote: "If I was sitting with you I would totally be participating in all the fun tape-based shenanigans! This is brilliant."
Another said: "I think this is genius as hell."
A third added: "This is expert level parenting."
Nichola isn't the only parent to have entertained her kids with tape on a flight.
Another mum named Ayelet shared a video of her children ripping the tape off plane windows during a flight, suggesting it's an effective tool for keeping them entertained.
Ayelet said she doesn't bring any other toys for her son whenever they go on holiday.
She wrote on her blog: "We brought zero toys. My reasoning was we are going to be so active while on the trip we wouldn’t have much time to play with them.
"The tape is easy to pack and provides so much entertainment. We put pieces on the wall and window on the plane and he peeled them off. Repeat."
It can be found in plenty of different colours, meaning parents can even pick their kids' favourite.
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