Games for a Road Trip
Games
for a Road Trip. "Are we there yet?" "How much longer?" "I have to pee!"
How
many road trips has this been the norm for you and your family? Nothing makes a
road trip go slower! Depending on the length of a road trip, portable DVD's or
game consoles may not keep the kids - or adults for that matter- happy for the
whole trip. When we go on a road trip we try to make it as much fun as the trip
itself! So we try to incorporate free road trip games that we can play together.
Not only does it make the time go faster, it also allows us to spend time
together and enjoy each other!
After all a family that plays together stays
together!
Check out some of our ideas for activities and games for a road trip!
Give each person playing a list of items to look for while driving. Each
person checks off each item as they find it. If you have younger children that
can't read then make the list with pictures and check boxes. Make it a little
more fun and use stickers to check off the items!
Play the game a couple of
times in different parts of the road trip. Here are some examples of things to
look for:
- Bus
- Signs in Foreign language
- Dog
- Railroad tracks
- Advertising sign with an animal on it
- Cows
- Wild animal
- Starbucks
- Cat
- National Park
For some more ideas on
Scavenger Hunts Check out this site at
http://www.momsminivan.com/scavenger.html
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This
classic and fun game is great on long travel trips, especially if you are on an
interstate or main highway. List out all the states and/or provinces on a
sheet of paper and have each participant look for each license plate.
If you are road tripping in another country then figure out how their license
plates are organized and create a play sheet based on that.
Each person can compete against each other or work as a team. Create a new game
on each leg of the trip and see who gets the most plates!
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This is one of the easy and free road trip games - You can play this game with cows, horses, mail
boxes, phone booths or really anything you will see on your trip.
Divide the car
up into passenger side and driver side and set the time limit (i.e. play for
each leg of the trip). Whichever side counts the most cows wins! If you find a
field with many cows you better count fast!
If you pass a cemetery on your side
you have to start again!
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If you can't think of anymore games for a road trip try reading a book
aloud. Choose a book and the member of the trip that is least likely to get car
sick. Read the book aloud for all members of the car to hear. If you don't want
to read a book while the car is moving, download an audio book to your mp3
player or a CD and listen to it together. The Harry Potter series is a good one
to entertain everyone.
If your participants or family members are a little older, why not learn a
new language on route somewhere. One road trip to Florida we tried to learn
Japanese - boy that was fun!
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Games for a Road Trip -
Word Games
Geography Word Games for a Road Trip - Start with a place anywhere in
the world - i.e. Ontario. The next person has to come up with another place in
the world that starts with the last letter - for example Oregon - then the next
person would be something like - Nebraska and so on. You may not use the same
place twice and it has to be a real place. Keep going until you can't think of a
place - chances are you will run out of time before you run out of places!
3 Ghosts - This was my dad's favorite when I was a child. Each person
starts with 3 Ghosts. You start with a letter (usually with a word in mind). For
example - A. Then the next person says a letter that makes up a word. For
example - U - then you continue on until you can't make up a work anymore.
If
you can't figure out what word the person is trying to make then you can
challenge the person that said the letter. If they can't come up with a word
then they lose one ghost. If they do and you challenged them then you lose a
Ghost. Once you have lost 3 Ghosts you are out. The one with the most Ghosts at
the end of the time period or leg of the journey wins!
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