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Road Trip Games
Sometimes, family road trips are an unavoidable fact of life.
Sometimes, getting there is half the fun. Help everyone to enjoy a long
car ride a bit more with these six easy do-it-yourself travel games.
1. Homemade Mad Libs. Before you hit the road, collect
a few short stories, replace some of the words with blank lines and
write the part of speech in parentheses underneath. Read the stories
aloud as you travel and ask the children to call out their ideas. Take
turns reading back the stories.
2. Make Your Own "Wipe Clean" Games and Activities.
Laminate word games, mazes, and more from age- appropriate activity
books. You can also create your own activities from scratch, or download
and print some activities from your favorite online educational sites.
Each child gets a couple of dry erase markers or overhead projecter pens
and a few tissues to use as erasers. Your kids will love trading the
pages and resuing the pages again and again throughout the trip.
3. Don't Forget the Joke Bowl. Before you leave on your
trip, let each member of your family know that they need to collect at
least ten jokes. Each person writes their jokes on slips of paper, which
are collected in a bowl, hat or bag. At the first green highway sign,
one person starts the joke bowl, reading a joke from the bowl and then
passing it clockwise. Once everyone has read a joke, the group votes on
a winner. The winner gets to start passing the Joke Bowl the next time
you see a green highway sign.
4. Count the Cows. Separate your family into two teams,
divided right down the center of the car, and count all the cows you see
out your respective windows. This gets fun when you pass those crowded
field because everyone is counting really fast. Each person keeps their
own cow tally, but you can lose your cows, too: If you pass a cemetery
(on your side of the car) and someone on the opposing team yells, "All
your cows are buried!"
5. Play the License Plate Game. This one's a classic.
Before you leave on your trip, give a list of all 50 states to each of
your kids. (Or give them a blank map of the United States.) Each time
they pass a car with a particular license plate, they cross it off the
list or color the state on the map. You can have everyone compete
against one another or work as a team.
6. Read a book. Find a great read aloud book and take
turns reading. If your stomach churns at the thought of reading while in
a moving car, download a few
audiobooks to listen to as a family.
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