Planning on taking my three kids on an 1800 mile trip. ideas?

Question

have gameboys and pvds. know about liscense plates games and liscense plate bingo. looking for new games i know i spy ???

Answer 1

first of all, bring Dramamine. you never know when car sickness will hit and it's never a pleasant thing.

here's a good site for car trip games: http://www.momsminivan.com/

Answer 2

Rand McNally has good travel books with games and activities for in the car and also the hotel at night, little things, like crushing a piece of paper and playing basketball and tossing it across the room into the wastebasket. There are also games for restaurants and word searches and activities by state in the book I bought. Look at the bookstore. When my 3 were younger, it was actually easier. Now they are teenagers and all they want to do is fight with each other all the way, physically and verbally, so it's more fun when they're little, even if it's challenging in a different way. Good luck!

Answer 3

My kids loved word game...We would tell a story where each person would only say one word at a time each taking their turn. Another way would be one person starts a story and then passes it to the next to continue. Also, we would do a treasure hunt type game where before the trip I would write down some unusual, or not so unusual items and they would go about trying to find them during the course of the trip ei...a white horse with a black tail, a brick house with a white fence, a man wearing purple shorts...that sort of thing. We also would play "the alphabet game". Where the kids had to find items in alphabetical order.

Answer 4

what i always do is play the ABC game, here's how you play: you look at the exit signs(Alabama next right), then you find the FIRST letter, in this case its A, then you find the next letter,B and go through your ABC, next game is Truck honking, or if they have CD player bring that, bring along a book,paper and colored pencils so they can draw, if you have boys bring along a movie and a portable DVD player, the movie they can watch would be kind of a boyish movie like agent Cody banks 2, spy kids, Chronicles of Narnia: the lion. which ,wardrobe. if you have a girl you can bring a girl movie, princess diaries,aqua Marne, you know those girl movies. A scavenger hunt on the road: Give each child a list of items to watch for while driving. The list can be made up ahead of time and adjusted for the scenery. Here's a sample list of items to hunt for!

Answer 5

When I was a kid, we used to play alphabet. Mom would give us a category, and then we had to make a list of at least one thing that fits in the category for each letter, like Albatross, Blue jay, Chicken, Dove, Eagle, Finch, Goose ... and so on. Of course, you gage the level of difficulty to your children's ages. If "birds" is too difficult, broaden it to "animals". Each letter must be done before progressing to the next letter ... no jumping ahead to "Owl" because no one can think of anything for "N".

We used to play Yahtzee in the car too. Mom got us a little dish to roll the dice into, and then we wrote the number down and worked from that so we didn't have to worry about the car's motion altering the dice.

Audio books and magnetic poetry are good too.

PS. Nightingale or nuthatch.

Answer 6

Depending on your travel arrangements, it may be a good idea to travel with children, or adolescents, during the time in which they are used to sleeping. In addition, you may want to deprive them of sleep (only by a few hours of course) before you hit the road. Not only will you be less stressed about who is "not touching or bothering whom", your children will be sleeping and this will make for an easier trip for everyone. An 1800 mile trip sounds like it will be an interesting time for everyone. This is just advice, take it or leave it, good luck!

Answer 7

You can look up the historical sites that will be along your travel route and read some books and do some activities with the kids before you leave. Then you can stop at some of them and they can see what they have learned about. There are often gift shops at the sites with relevant activities (coloring books, books, games, etc.) that you could buy for them to delve deeper into the subject.

Answer 8

when my parents used to take us on long trips, they'd get us little toys like rubics cubes, dolls, little handheld electronic games (solitare, connect 4). Just cheap toys that could amuse us for a little while. Do they have cd players? listening to music would be a good way to pass the time (and possibly get them to fall asleep.)

Games? Well, rhyming games, where one person says 'cat,' and the next person says something that rhymes, and you keep going until no one can think of anymore. Or you could do the same thing but instead of rhyming, you have to find synonyms. One person would say money and the next would say cash and so on.

Books are a good way to pass time as well. It all depends on how old your kids are.

:) have fun and stay safe.

Answer 9

I recently took my two oldest grandchildren - ages 12 and 11 - on a road trip to Washington DC and New York City from Houston, TX - we had a blast - they had all the stuff you mentioned and I bought about 50 coloring and activity books and various markers and colored pencils - I wouldn't advise crayons due to the melt down factor! We sang along to oldies on the radio, they colored pictures for me and for my son (their uncle who we were going to visit in Manhattan), we discovered that my oldest loved helping me navigate so she became the keeper of the map and got us where we were going - I carried my camera and at each state line we stopped and jumped out and took pics of us at the state welcoming signs - I snapped tons of pics and after the trip was over I put together two photo albums in chronological order for them as keepsakes - their uncle took video of the visit in New York and created dvd's of their visit and that was added to the album - on the trip home they took turns reading aloud from the Harry Potter books their uncle had purchased for them! It was a glorious trip and one I will cherish forever and I hope they will too - I think they will cuz they still talk about it today and both took all their memory books up to their class in school and provided a show and tell experience for their class - it was fantastic - and you are doing a great thing by taking your kids on a road tirp - just be sure to plan on patience and lots of stops and you will have a great time! Good Luck and God Bless!

Answer 10

You must have a death wish! Or, more patience than the average parent. Don't worry about taking stuff for the kids, put together a survival kit for yourself! Ear plugs, tranquilizers, loud music cds, chocolate, ummmm that ought to get you started! Good luck, you're gonna need it!

Answer 11

Make sure you add some extra time to stop and let them stretch thier legs and run off some energy. That is a long trip. Good luck..