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.
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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
Knitting or crocheting, tolletjiebrei
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