If you’re wondering how to keep your child entertained during the festive season road trips, here are ten ways to avoid the \u201care we there yet?\u201d questions and boredom in the car:
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\u2022 Road Trip Bingo:<\/b><\/p>\n
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 free printable bingo card and a zip-lock bag with 16 pennies. When a player spies an item on his card, he covers the picture with a penny. Just like in regular bingo, the first player to cover all the squares in a straight line wins.
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\u2022 License Plate Game:<\/b><\/p>\n
When we were kids, everyone seemed to play the license plate game on family road trips. Armed with a pad of paper, we would write down the name of each province as we spotted it. The goal, of course, was to nab all 8 provinces. If we were lucky, we\u2019d bag foreign provinces, too.<\/p>\n
Nowadays we love the ease of an updated free printable license plate game, where kids cross off the provinces as they spy them. For older kids learning geography, we recommend the map version, which shows how far away each car originated.
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\u2022While you were sleeping<\/b>
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The Rules:<\/b>
\nFirst, a passenger must fall asleep.
\nAfter five minutes of slumber, the awake passengers begin creating a story.
\nEach person takes turns adding to the story.
\nOnce the passenger wakes up, you have to get them to believe the story.
\nIf somebody breaks character, they lose a point.
\nIf somebody goes off script, you ask “Are you sure?” and then that person is silenced and loses two points.
\nIf you successfully fool the person, each storyteller wins three points.
\nIf the sleeping passenger fools the car and joins their story correctly, they steal their current point total.
\nThe one with the most points at the destination wins.
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\u2022Noot-vir-Noot<\/b><\/p>\n
The Game: Connect song lyrics for a fun sing-along game.
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The Rules:<\/b><\/p>\n
One person starts singing a song
\nUsing a lyric from the song, the next person has to connect it with another song
\nIt continues on until somebody messes up the lyrics or is stumped
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Example:<\/b><\/p>\n
I kissed a girl and I…
\n…Really, really, really like you…
\n…Doing that thing you do, breaking my heart into a million…
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\u2022Snack attack<\/b>
\nThe Game: Collect the most regional snacks between the start and finish of your road trip
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The Rules:<\/b><\/p>\n
At each gas station you stop at, you have to find a local snack
\nYou can only get one food item per gas station
\nThe food item has to be created within the region the stop is located
\nWhoever has the most snacks by your destination wins
\nDuplicate cities don’t count
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\u2022The Game: Holler when you see a cow!
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The Rules:<\/b><\/p>\n
When you see a cow on your side of the road, you have to yell, “Cows on my side!”
\nEvery time you call a cow, you get a point
\nIf you see cows on the other side you say, “Cows on your side!”
\nIf you call, “Cows on your side” before the person sees them, you steal a point
\nIf anyone sees a cemetery they scream, “Ghost cow,” stealing all the other side’s points
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\u2022Photo diary<\/b>
\nTake pics of road trips or specific things on list and create a scrapbook for family at home
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\u2022Magnetic board games of card games<\/b>
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\u2022Knitting or crocheting, tolletjiebrei.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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