10 Travel Tips to Bring Audio on the Go

Travel Tip #1: Protect Your Player

Before you leave, make sure your audio player has a durable case. Travel can be tough on electronics, and a protective case helps prevent damage from drops, spills, and everyday kid chaos. Plus if you grab our favorite travel case, you can store your player, cards, and charging cords.

Shop our favorite adventure jackets: Regular or Mini

Travel Tip #2: Original Cards or MYO Cards? 

One of the biggest decisions before a trip is figuring out how you’ll bring your audio collection.

Some families love bringing original cards because they’re easy for little hands to manage and feel special. Others prefer using Make Your Own (MYO) cards because they allow you to combine favorite content into fewer cards. Both options work well—the best choice depends on your child’s personality and how much you’re willing to pack.

Travel Tip #3: Load Your MYO Cards

This simple step can make a huge difference once you’re on the road.

Take a few minutes before your trip to load your MYO cards with:

• Favorite stories
• Interactive adventures
• Calming audio tracks
• Road trip games
• Bedtime listens

Having everything ready before you leave means no scrambling for Wi-Fi at the hotel or trying to upload files from the back seat.

Future you will be grateful. Momma Bear Audios all have an easy to use YOTO link. 

Need help loading your Momma Bear Audio to your MYO cards? Check out our easy to follow BLOG on how to load audios to your cards.

Travel Tip #4: Create your own playlists

Consider making a few cards just for your trip. Road trip games, hotel quiet-time activities, and favorite vacation listens can all be grouped together for easy access.

If you’re trying to save space, MYO cards are often the clear winner, our kids love creating their own playlists by combining multiple cards and stories into one. Each MYO card holds 100 tracks. 

If you need help creating your own MYO cards, check out our blog post on how to create MYO cards here with Momma Bear Audio.

Want to create your own cards and record your own content? Check out this BLOG post from YOTO. 

Question: How much content can I put on my MYO card?

Travel Tip #5: Use your entire MBA Library + Podcast

One of the easiest ways to make your summer travels smoother? Download your favorite audio before you hit the road (or board the plane!).

Whether you’re driving through mountains, flying across the country, or camping where cell service is spotty, having your audio ready to go means the fun never has to stop.

At Momma Bear Audio, everything is designed to make screen-free travel easier for parents and more exciting for kids.

Check out our podcast here, we have over 250+ audios.

Need help downloading podcast episodes and loading them to your MYO card? Check out our Podcast help page. 

Travel Tip #6: Our top Summer Audio Picks

Looking for the perfect car ride listens?

Our go-to picks:

Interactive adventures
Silly stories
Imagination games
Calm-down audios for when energy dips

The right audio can turn “Are we there yet?” into quiet, engaged play

Check out our favorite audios by age so you can grab the right ones for your kiddos. We curated a Momma Bear Audio picks by age blog post to give you so many options, 

Grab our new Summer Time Audio Picks here. 

Travel Tip #7: Keep Track of Your Gear

Small travel items have a way of disappearing.

If you’re traveling with a player, card case, headphones, and charging cables, keeping track of everything can become a challenge.

One simple solution is attaching an AirTag or similar tracker to your player case.

It takes only a minute to set up and can save a lot of frustration if something gets left behind at a hotel, airport, or rest stop.

We also recommend these must have items:

• Travel case
• Adventure jackets: Regular or Mini
• Reusable YOTO Card Holder Ring Set
• AirTag or tracking device

Travel Tip #8: Bring Familiar Bedtime Audio

Travel is exciting—but it can also be overwhelming.

A familiar bedtime audio routine can help kids feel comfortable in an unfamiliar environment.

The same stories, calming voices, and predictable routines they use at home provide a sense of consistency even when everything else feels different.

This is especially helpful for younger children who struggle with changes in routine.

Our favorite go-to bedtime audios are:
Yawn-o-saurus Sleepy Time Stories
Goodnight Castle
Goodnight Woods
The Cozy Quilt – Bedtime stories
Restful Rhythms
Soundscapes with Momma Bear Audio
Simple Sleepy Time Songs with Ms.Mary

Travel Tip #9: Pack Movement Audios

Kids aren’t designed to sit still for hours.

One of our favorite travel hacks is bringing movement-based audio that encourages stretching, dancing, wiggling, and active play.

These activities are perfect for:

• Rest stops
• Airport waiting areas
• Hotel rooms
• Camping trips
• Long afternoons on the road

A few minutes of movement can completely change the mood of a travel day.

Our favorite go-to movement audios are:
ABC Move with Me
Freeze Dance
Magical Moves
Color Stomp
Memory Moves

Travel Tip #10: Save Longer Audios for Downtime

Every trip has those moments when everyone needs a little break.

Maybe you’re waiting for dinner.
Maybe you’re relaxing in the hotel room.
Maybe you need 20 quiet minutes before the next adventure.

This is the perfect time to pull out longer audio experiences, immersive stories, drawing activities, or engaging adventures that allow kids to settle in and recharge.

Having a few “downtime favorites” ready can turn stressful moments into peaceful ones. Here are our favorite ones:

Squares – Squares by Momma Bear” is designed to help kids develop several important skills, including: auditory processing, spatial awareness, attention to detail, quick thinking, sequential processing, number recognition and “lateralization” with the left and right movements.

Math Explorers Escape Room – Enchanted Forest – In this interactive audio escape room, kids follow a story-led adventure hosted by a friendly forest guide (and some surprising animal characters) as they travel through the forest. At each chapter, they’ll be presented with a math challenge, and their answers determine which audio track they jump to next. A correct answer unlocks the next step in the journey. 

Finn Copperpot’s Curious Contractions – Book 1 – Splash Zone – Full of laughs, clever inventions, and Finn’s resilient spirit, “Splash Zone” is a delightful tale of turning mistakes into unexpected adventures. Perfect for early readers, this book will have kids eager to see what Finn dreams up next!

Finn Copperpot’s Curious Contraptions – Book 2 – Finn tweaks and tests his robot, leading to laughter, clever problem-solving, and a heartwarming story about creativity, teamwork, and never giving up

Lost & Found Adventures – we have over 12 Lost & Found adventures, these games encourage problem-solving, critical thinking, and independent decision-making and it’s all wrapped in a fun, story-driven experience.

Dino Museum Mystery – A detective-style interactive adventure

Key to the City –  Become a junior detective tasked with solving the case of the missing Key to the City. 

Treasure on the Emerald Sea – This interactive audio experience is perfect for adventurers of all ages, offering a blend of storytelling, problem-solving, and exploration.

Zap Who Couldn’t Zap – Zap Who Couldn’t Zap is a high-voltage pick-your-path interactive story packed with mystery, mishaps, and 26 possible endings! If you loved the audio, you can also order the book to go along with it. Giving your reader an option to listen and follow along.