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Christmas Carols Songbook

Christmas Carols Songbook...

We hope that you will get the kids together and do some caroling during the Christmas Season. In preparation for our upcoming road trip in a week from now, we have created a Christmas Carols Songbook for the kids. A perfect travel companion during the Christmas holiday: our free, printable songbook features lyrics for some of the most popular and beloved Christmas songs: “Away in a Manger,” “Hark! The...
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Reversal Word Game

Reversal Word Game...

Reversal (or Reverse-It) is a fun little word game that you can change and adapt with every different game. Instructions: You need at least two players for this game. You will play two rounds. ROUND 1: You will choose a topic for this round. It could be names of people you know, names of places, names of famous people, names of foods, etc. The object of Round 1 is to find a correct word or two words (eg. For names:...
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Soda Killer? – Brain Teaser

Soda Killer? – Brain Teaser...

Dihydrogen monoxide is and chemical compound that can kill you if you ingest too much of it, corrode metals, dissolve some solids, is part of acid rain, and is used by many industrial chemical plants. However, it is also a very important ingredient to most soda pops. How can this be? ANSWER: Dihydrogen monoxide is the chemical name for H2O – what we call...
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Jotto – Word Game

Jotto – Word Game...

If any of you have played the board game by the name of “Mastermind”, then you will catch on to this verbal word game very quickly. All you need for this game is some paper and a pencil. The game is designed around two players, but you could modify it a bit for more players if desired. The object of the game is to guess your opponent’s secret word through a series of word guesses and logic. To begin, each...
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Mixed up Utah Cities

Mixed up Utah Cities...

Unscramble the names of some of Utah’s cities below. For some help, feel free to use the list of possible city names. Click on the image for a full resolution viewAlpine Beaver Clearfield Cleveland Clinton Coalville Cove Draper Elmo Elsinore Goshen Layton Logan Midvale Millville Morgan Neola Nephi Oakley Paragonah Perry Provo Randlett Salina Snowville Spring City Springdale Tooele Topaz Toquerville Val...
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Rebus Teaser #3

Rebus Teaser #3...

Rebus Puzzles are popular word picture puzzles with hidden meanings. You use their pictures and words to try to solve the meaning. They are often common phrases. ANSWER: “Top...
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Too many candy bars

Too many candy bars...

On a long road trip your parents pass back a bucket of 23 candy bars for all of the passengers. You take seven of the candy bars. Before you pass it on to your sister, you decide that you want a few more so you take half of what’s left in the bucket. You start to feel guilty right away, so you put back one third of the candy bars that you had taken out of the bucket. How many candy bars are now in the...
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Rebus Teaser #2...

Rebus Puzzles are popular word picture puzzles with hidden meanings. You use their pictures and words to try to solve the meaning. They are often common phrases. ANSWER: “Peace on...
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Create your own Anagrams!

Create your own Anagrams!...

My kids love to do anagrams while on our family car trips. The road trip goes much better when the kids have a pencil and paper in hand working on unscrambling the letters to make real words. You can easily create your own anagrams by typing a list of words in the box below. The words can be separated by a space or a new line. Create your own...
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Utah Stereogram – A City in Utah

Utah Stereogram – A City in Utah...

A stereogram is a two-dimensional picture that has a 3-D image hidden in it. To find the hidden image you must turn the picture lengthwise and then focus your eyes through the paper. Pretend that you are looking through the page to the distant background. This causes you to switch from “near point” to “far point” vision and will allow the hidden image to come into view. Some useful steps that are...
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Rebus Teaser #1

Rebus Teaser #1...

Rebus Puzzles are popular word picture puzzles with hidden meanings. You use their pictures and words to try to solve the meaning. They are often common phrases. ANSWER: “Over the river and through the...
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Quote Boxes

Quote Boxes...

Quote boxes are fun little puzzles that take all of the letters in a quote that you provide and it lines them up into a table. The letters in each column of the table are then mixed up so that you have to decode them. To generate a quote box puzzle, just type in a short quote in the box below. We will do the rest. You can print out your puzzle and give them to the kids on your next family trip! Please note —...
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License Plate Counting

License Plate Counting...

Believe it or not there are a lot of fun activities that can be done with license plates and street signs. The best thing about these games are that they require very little or even no props or materials. One such game is what we like to call counting plates. All that is required are vehicle license plates in the very low elementary level knowledge of numbers. The object of the game to count to a predetermined number by...
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Funny City Names

Funny City Names...

The following sheet of city names is one that we compiled where we thought the name of the city was humorous in one way or another. This printable worksheet can be used by some activities or games that are highlighted on our website. Alabama Section, Alabama (MAP) Burnt Corn, Alabama (MAP) Alaska Dead Horse, Alaska (MAP) Mary's Igloo, Alaska...
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G-H-O-S-T

G-H-O-S-T...

Don’t let the title scare you. There is actually very little in this game that should cause a fright. Actually, I am not sure where it got the name, but it has stuck among those game players that like to trick each other with words. This game can be played with two or more players in the car. You really don’t need any other instruments to play this game other than possibly a piece of paper to keep track of the...
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Funny Towns Atlas Activity

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,...
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