Keep the kids occupied in the car

Audiobooks

Audiobooks are just the thing to keep kids entertained on long road trips.

Road Trip Bingo

This fun game combines bingo with a scavenger hunt.

Give each child a flat surface, such as a clipboard or hardcover book, to put on his or her lap.

Each player gets a bingo card and a ziplock bag with 16 coins.

When a player spies an item on his card, he covers the picture with a coin.

While you were sleeping

The Rules:

• First, a passenger must fall asleep
• After five minutes of slumber, the awake passengers begin creating a story
• Each person takes turns adding to the story
• Once the passenger wakes up, you have to get them to believe the story
• If somebody breaks character, they lose a point
• If somebody goes off script, you ask, “Are you sure?” and then that person is silenced and loses two points
• If you successfully fool the person, each storyteller wins three points
• If the sleeping passenger fools the car and joins their story correctly, they steal their current point total
• The one with the most points at the destination wins

Noot-vir-Noot

The Game: Connect song lyrics for a fun sing-along game

The Rules:

• One person starts singing a song
• Using a lyric from the song, the next person has to connect it with another song
• It continues on until somebody messes up the lyrics or is stumped

Example:

• “I kissed a girl and I…”
• “…Really, really, really like you…”
• “…Doing that thing you do, breaking my heart into a million…”

Snack attack

The Game: Collect the most regional snacks between the start and finish of your road trip

The Rules:

• At each gas station you stop at, you have to find a local snack
• You can only get one food item per gas station
• The food item has to be created within the region the stop is located
• Whoever has the most snacks by your destination wins
• Duplicate cities don’t count

The Game: Holler when you see a cow!

The Rules:

• When you see a cow on your side of the road, you have to yell, “Cows on my side!”
• Every time you call a cow, you get a point
• If you see cows on the other side you say, “Cows on your side!”
• If you call, “Cows on your side,” before the person sees them, you steal a point
• If anyone sees a cemetery they scream, “Ghost cow,” stealing all the other side’s points

Photo diary

Take pics of road trips or specific things on list and create a scrapbook for family at home

 Magnetic board games of card games

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