pass the time car game ideas..

[ThunderMTexpert]

Driving from Louisiana to Florida at the end of this September.. It'll be just DH and I, suggestions for fun past-times driving in a three-seater front-seat-only truck? LOL- This will be a challenge! I'm already bringing my Disney Movie Soundtracks!!

 

[RalphMouth]

you can never go wrong with the licence plate game...

 

[ThunderMTexpert]

I don't know the proper RULEs to the licence plate game. Just going through the 50 states??

 

[bjscheel]

I don't know what the official license plate game is, but my DDs and I spent this last weekend's road trip doing our own version. Most Iowa license plates have three letters, so we see a plate and try to come up with a sentence or phrase starting with those three letters. For example AAH= Allison Ate Hamburgers. It can be harder than you think...

Also there is the alphabet game when you try to find each letter in order on signs or license plates.

My kids also try to find semi's in every color of the rainbow. You can do them in order or skip around like we do (yellow and orange are the hardest).

 

[Moomduck1]

We usually just try to find a license plate for as many of the 50 states as possible. When it's just my hubby and I, we really like the books on tape. They make the time go faster. We will sometimes use them with the kids in the car, but if they want their ipods on, they complain that our "tape" is too loud. We also sometimes count who can spot the most Waffle Houses or Cracker Barrels along the way.

 

[disneyfanfamily]

Cracker Barrel has travel Bingo which my kids love. (The internet also has a good variety) It has things like tractors, stop signs, churches, goats, etc that you mark off when you see it.

My kids love playing the "animal" game. I think of an animal and they have yes and no questions they ask me until they guess it.

The alphabet game. You have to find all the letters the alphabet IN ORDER. You have to find the letter first to count. Whoever makes it to Z wins!

How many songs can you think of that has the word XXXX in it. (love, dog, beautiful, etc.) Each person has to say or sing part of the song. The person who cannot think of a song gets a point. You want the smallest amout of points.

I know, we are a dorky game playing family...
Angela

 

[MomBoyd]

How about the A-My-Name-Is game? (Person 1 - A my name is Alice, I come from Alaska and I like Apples Person 2 - B my name is Bart ...) You can "like" anything or make the "likes" fit a category such as eating, animals or Disney.

We also sing, look for letters of the alphabet on signs, play travel bingo and try to find the fifty states on license plates. We have done the states at random and in alphabetical order (took 8-9 months). Now we are looking for them in the order they became states!