Four Games To Keep The Kids Entertained While Travelling This Summer

AD – Long journeys can be an absolute nightmare when you have kids to consider. They get bored, tired, hot, hungry, and bored some more. They get annoying for you as the driver and even an hour’s journey seems so long to them.

Of course, you can bring a bag of toys, you can play music and listen to audiobooks, but sometimes the kids need their minds stimulating too, and games are the only way to do that in the car. There are some great games that you can make yourself very easily:

Road Trip Bingo

Road Trip Bingo is classic and easy to make too. If you know the journey, you’re going on then make up a bingo card with sites and landmarks that you know you’re going to pass and keep the kids looking out for them. If you’ve not been on the journey before then, you can either do some research beforehand to find out what you will pass or use everyday things that you know you’re going to see.

Such as police cars, aeroplanes and stop signs. You could also do car colours with each child looking for a different colour car and the first one to get ten wins.

Write A Quiz

Writing a quiz is easy, and it can be about anything you want, and you can write as many as you want. You know what your kids know and like so a general knowledge quiz about their favourite TV shows, what they’re learning in school and members of the family can be fun.

You can mix it up with a music round by playing the beginning of a song in the car and asking them to name that tune; you could print off some pictures to create a picture round too. Print off images of people or characters they will recognize, or items that are distorted or have parts missing and get them to guess what they are.

You can make a quiz as long or as short as you want, but the best thing about it is, you can make it educational if you want to and if you make it longer then you could have your kids occupied and busy for the whole journey.

Scavenger Hunt

Play the scavenger hunt game on your trip and get started in the car. This way you’ll have the kids keeping an eye out for all sorts of things so they can get a head start on completing the hunt.

Learn About The Destination

Create a fun pack telling the kids all about where you’re going, what they will see there and what they will be doing. There can be information and games in the pack, maybe some multiple choice questions, a small crossword or word search and some word scrambles as there’ll be no chance of your kids using an unscrambler to cheat while they’re in the car. As long as everything has the theme of the destination, the kids will learn along the way.

Don’t forget to pick up a load of little prizes too because realistically they’re only going to keep quiet for a reward at the end of it.

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