The season of long car drives is almost upon us with summer vacation season. When you are on your next long car drive with your children and are looking for fun and easy ways to pass the time, check out the simple games here:
Play Punch Bug and look out for a Volkswagon Beetle car and gently punch another person’s arm. They have to spot it and say what color it is.
Play I Spy, of course!
Play Name That Tune. One player thinks of a song that everybody knows and hums its first few notes. The other players try to guess the name of the song.
Play Woodchuck where you are on the lookout for cars with wood paneling on them. Keep score for who finds the most.
Play Cheezy Squeezy, where you look for yellow cars and you squeeze someone’s arm and they have to spot it too.
Alphabet Games:
The first person thinks of something that starts with A, like Apples. Then the next person says I’m going on vacation and I’m bring apples and bananas (or something else that starts with B). It continues until you have gone through all the letters of the alphabet. When you run out of people, you go back to the first person again. If you are playing with younger kids, you might not want to make them remember. Rather, just have them think of something that starts with their letter.
Begin with the letter A and work through the alphabet to fill in the following sentence:
My name is _____, my husband’s/wife’s name is ______, we live in _______ (name of city state or country), and we sell _______ (item). You do this for each letter of the alphabet. For example, letter A: My name is Anne, my husbands name is Anthony, we live in Alabama, and we sell, aardvarks. Then the next person does B.
Look for all the letters of the alphabet on signs, cars, restaurants, etc. So you might find A on a traffic sign and B on the license plate in front of you, and C on the Chevrolet next to you, etc. You keep going until you get through the whole alphabet. You can make it harder by rotating turns and having each person look for a letter. Make it harder by saying you can only use one letter from each place. For example if you see Q and R on the license plate in front of you, you can only use it to meet the requirement of q or r. You have to find another sign, etc. for the other letter.
Counting Cows. Have the kids look out for cows along the sides of the highway and see how many they can count as you pass by.
I’m Thinking of an Animal Game. Have the kids think of an animal, and then provide clues to everyone else about the animal he is thinking about so that others can guess the animal. Play until the animals are determined.
Play Rock, Paper and Scissors.
Play Find A… One player says “Find a..” and the other people must find whatever the player is looking for, i.e. cows, red signs, etc.
Rainbow Game: Call out a color and each person has to find something that color. For example, when you call out green, one person might point to grass.
Silly Sound Game. Make up a silly sound effect for each thing you see and say it each time you pass one. For example, you might decide that the sound for red cars is “beep-beep” and the sound for yellow trucks is “honk honk.” You can add animal sounds for animals, “splish splash” for rivers or ponds, “ring ring” (doorbells) for houses, etc. Lots of fun.
Tell Tall Tales: One person starts off telling a story. He talks for about a minute and stops when he reaches an exciting moment another person picks up where he left off. The game continues with the tale twisting and turning with each new story-teller.
License Plate Math: Have older kids count up all of the numbers in different license plates to find the sum. Or have the kids write down the numbers from the license plate and read aloud the big number.
Play Guess the Number. The player thinks of a number between a range of numbers, i.e. 1-100, and everyone tries to guess the number by asking questions.
Are We There Yet? Game: Ask the kids questions about how far you’re traveling. Yards? Miles? Kilometers? How fast are we going? If it’s 3:15 now, and it takes us two hours to get there, what time will we arrive? How far have we gone? etc.
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