Road games
Liz Atwood discusses keeping kids occupied on car trips in this week's Tween Tuesday:
I took the kids to Virginia to see my family for Christmas and I thought we’d never get there. The drive is only about 2 1/2 hours, but the kids whined about being hungry and bored. A half-charged iPad kept them occupied for a while, but they eventually got tired of that. The return trip was even worse. They picked at each other constantly. The iPad ran out of power. They were tired of sitting. I kept trying to think of games to play like we did when they were small. We used to play the alphabet game—trying to pick out letters from the signs along the road, but they weren’t interested this time. We played a couple rounds of 20 Questions, but we all got bored after a while, mainly because the younger one cheats and halfway through changes his mind about what he’s thinking of.
But a couple days ago, I found this web site that features games to play in the car. While my trip is over, I thought if you’re traveling this week you might be able to get some ideas for how to keep your kids occupied. Do you have any other games you and your kids play?
Comments
Thanks for the website tip-many of the games we play in the car are there, plus lots of new ones.
Posted by: marylandmom2 | December 29, 2010 7:14 AM
I just took my kids (9 and 12) to Orlando and back. We visited SeaWorld, Universal Orlando, and the Kennedy Space Center during the week between Christmas and New Year's.They slept most of the way down as it was snowy, dark, and/or rainy for most of the way down over two days. On the way back, we drove 14.5 hours in one day. They played card games (Yahtzee, Sorry, and Uno), listened to football games on the satellite radio, worked on a bunch of Mad Libs, and talked with their stepmom and me. It was easy, because they get along really well. There was very little snipping a t each other. It was a great trip, but now I need a vacation to recover from the vacation.
Posted by: Dan | January 3, 2011 4:39 PM
The VW punching game is always fun for boys.
Posted by: 4 leaf clover | January 6, 2011 6:49 AM
Thank you for posting this. My sister and brother-in-law have three boys, and they keep them all occupied with headrest TV screens that play their favorite movies. They also have not 1, but 2 iPads that they pass around. Those are surprisingly user-friendly for children!
Posted by: Games to Play in the Car | April 11, 2011 3:43 PM