Question Time...

Amazon.com Widgets On your next road trip, set aside some time to put away the video games, turn off the portable DVD players, and enjoy an age old road trip activity of getting to know your fellow travelers better. In order to help facilitate you in this road trip activity, we have created a question generator for your benefit: 5 get-to-known you questions for all ages 5 get-to-known you questions for younger kids 5...

Math Facts Printable Sheets...

Amazon.com Widgets Math Facts Cards One way we have kept our kids “entertained” in the back seat on road trips is to give them some math problems to do. If you call it a road trip activity, then they won’t see it as homework! Use our Math Fact Sheet / Flash Card generator for your next road trip. Math Fact Generator – Printable Sheets or Flash...

Mad Libs...

Mad Libs is a word game that everyone can enjoy. A player is prompted to provide a list of words that will later be substituted into a story. The player is first asked to provide nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, etc. once he or she has filled out those words, they are substituted into a story and read out loud to everyone in the car. These word substitutions often end up being very funny and brings laughs to kids and adults...

Magnetic Word Activities...

Pass the hours away on the long drive with some great brain stimulating activities that will have your kids becoming masters of their native tongue. All you need are a set of word magnets and either a small magnetic whiteboard, or even a small cookie sheet. There are a number of activities that passengers of most ages can participate in during the drive. Here are a few suggestions from us: Word Snakes – best for...

Customize Your Face!...

Take drawing in the car to the next level with an inexpensive mirror and a handful of dry erase markers. During that long trip, pass out the mirror and markers to your children. They are likely to spend the next hundred miles or so drawing mustaches, horns, freckles and more on their face through the mirror. The instructions are easy: 1. Look directly in the mirror 2. Take a dry erase marker and start to draw facial features...

Anagrams...

Anagrams are words, phrases, or sentences that are created by mixing up the letters contained in that string. Anagrams have been a popular activity for many centuries. Anagram puzzles even date back to the Roman empire in the middle ages. They are a great way to challenge the mind and keep children mentally engaged during a leg of any road trip. In a typical anagram puzzle, a person will attempt to form a valid word by...

Spelling Words...

If your children are like mine, they enjoy being challenged mentally. We have found that our children enjoy being quized on familiar spelling words at brief intervals of our road trips. In order to facilitate the use of road trip spelling bees, we have created some spelling word lists and grouped them according to different word levels. These lists are by no means scientifically selected. We simply chose words that we thought...

Mental Math...

GAME RULES: All computations are to be done mentally. There is to be no writing on paper, on their hands, on the car, etc. Participants may write invisibly in the air and/or use their fingers and body parts. Talking is outlawed. Also, no calculators are allowed. THE PROCESS Read a list of computations slowly allowing everyone to make the calculations in their head. When you are finished with all of the questions, ask if...

Riddles for the Road...

One activity that our family loves to do on the road is to work on riddles together. Riddles can be tailored down to even the smaller aged children. You could take turns having each person in the car read a riddle (or make up one) for the rest of the vehicle occupants. The family will have a great time taking turns trying to work together in figuring out what the solution is. We have some riddles that might help you get...

Make Thank You Cards...

Several of our Road Trips take us to see family and friends. Usually this involves activities and such that require the time and resources of others. One way to show your appreciation and keep the kids busy at the same time is to have the family write thank you notes to those whom you have visited. Bring an envelope or box full of cards, crayons, stickers, markers, etc that the kids can use in the car to design and write...

Finding State License Plates...

This activity is best used on road trips where there is a lot of traffic. Give everyone either a map of the US or a list of all the states in the USA. On your trip, try to identify how many state license plates you can see. This isn’t really a game, rather an activity where everyone can help each other by calling out license plates for everyone to circle. For your convenience, we have added useful printable pages...

Sudoku...

Most people are familiar with the logic number puzzle that swept the world by storm in the 1990’s. The object of the puzzle is to fill a 9×9 grid of numbers such that there are no repetition of digits in either a row, a column, or in a 3×3 sub-grid on the puzzle. Each puzzle comes with a set number of cells are that have numbers provided as a starting point. The puzzle solver attempts to place digits in...

One Car Over – Story Game...

Everyone takes turns examining a car driving right next to you. They are to look at the car itself (inside and out) and the people within the car. Once they have gotten a sufficient look at the neighboring vehicle that person makes up a story that involves the occupants of the car, or the car...

Funny Towns Atlas Activity...

If your kids have an atlas at their disposal during a trip, the following activity could entertain them for quite some time. Simply have the kids turn their atlas to a particular state. Then have them all try to find the funniest city names for that state. Have them share their findings with all of the occupants in the car. As a starting point, try your home state? We know of funny names in Idaho, North Carolina,...

Ad Lib Storytelling...

A person in the car starts a story. After just a few sentences that person then points to someone else to continue the story. Keep this up as long as you can. Let your hair down and really make up some creative, funny tales!...