liscence plate games, counting birdnests, car makes...what?
(pre video games/dvd only please! thanks.)
2007-07-05 11:58:43 · 6 answers · asked by Dick Knows 7 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Parenting
We always played the ABC game. You would have to find a road sighn or liscence plate and a word on it begining in the letter that you needed to complete the alphabet. whoever completed it first won! I loved that game!
2007-07-06 05:50:55 · answer #1 · answered by Workaholic 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
One year we went on a multi-day car trip, and my mother had made these goodie bags for each day of the trip. Mostly they were dollar store cheap games that she had found, but we got a new one each day, which made at least part of the day easier to tolerate. She may have had 2 a day?
Some good things to put in these bags: Mad Libs, Cards, Actual travel games (I know one was like a bingo game trying to find various things, my sister got this too so we could switch them off) those magnetic faces, anything that would keep us at least a little occupied!
As far as car games we always started with a list of all 50 states at the beginning of the trip, and as we saw a license plate from each state we could cross it off. We did the alphabet game who could get to z first, or working together to get to z. Depending on the age of the kids you can make up sayings or words from license plates like we had a license plate that was CGW 392- Cool George Washington is 392. We of course always had our stuffed animals and sometimes they would get to drive the car. When we were older we would play cards. Oh and my parents favorite "game" my sister and I would do is fight over where the middle was and who was over it!
2007-07-05 16:39:47 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I learned the states and their capitals on our trips. I spy is good, too. Counting stuff (like cars with wood siding - don't see those too much anymore!)
The BEST thing I ever did to keep my own kids happy on a trip was to go to the dollar store or walmart and load up on inexpensive toys, gadgets, and maybe some snacks/candy. I never let them see what I had in the bag, but would just pull out whatever I needed whenever I needed it and spaced the treats out across the whole trip.
Before long, they so looked forward to long trips because they knew they would be full of surprises even if they were inexpensive and some kinda cheesy. When they got a little older, I would just give them each a bag of goodies and they knew that's all they would have to pacify themselves until the trip was over.
It's a challenge, but its doable!
2007-07-05 12:06:55 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Which state are we in, which way are we headed (North or Northwest), what is the capital of the state we are in, how many yellow cars are there? (blue being the most popular color) Do you know the kinds of trees these are?
How many children are in the car, did we leave one behind?
Do you know the destination? Where are we going, what are your cousin's names? Which uncle lives where, and whose children are whose?
Is anyone hungry, and dad wants someplace which serves a sitdown dinner, so don't ask for drive=through.
2007-07-05 12:30:35 · answer #4 · answered by Marissa Di 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the reality is that infants DO get abducted. you basically would desire to enable them to play unsupervised interior the neighbourhood as quickly as... you by way of no skill understand. My front backyard isn't fenced so i do no longer enable my son play there yet we've a large fenced outdoor and he likes to kick balls and such out the returned. I take him to parks myself and he has play dates with different babies occassionally. babies would desire to be supervised, who relatively is familiar with who's residing 3 doorways down?? around the nook from me there is lots of babies who're by no skill supervised, they have a 5 year old supervising a toddler and that they are on the line in any respect hours - ichronic previous at like 2kms/hr in case they have been to basically run out in front of me. lots of people dont nonetheless, theres constantly 'hoons' and individuals flying by way of there a sturdy 40kms over the value decrease. extra useful to be risk-free then sorry i think of!
2016-12-10 03:15:05 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my parents just taught us lessons that we finally began to learn just at the right time, in life. However, i became the black sheep of the whole family because i could not let my repulsive pride go. And all that classical music go to waste.
2007-07-06 04:49:41 · answer #6 · answered by romaniascott 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋