What activities/games do you play with your kids during long driving hours.

In a year most of us usually take at least 2/3 long trips in car. How much ever we plan there are at least 3 to 4 hours when kids are up and they have the same question ,” Are we there yet ? Or How long is it going to take?”
Some of the games we play( avoiding iPad,iPhones or gadgets) are 20 questions, Atlas,listening to audio tapes( with chapter books) and narrating stories .
Just wondering what are the activities you do in the car with your kids?

6 Comments:

  1. Dimple
    February 25, 2013 at 8:26 pm

    I Spy with my little eye, Memory game, Spellings, Maths Q&A

  2. Jaina
    February 26, 2013 at 6:54 am

    Number games – say bus or something silly for odd/ even, multiples of 5. Clap when you see reoccurring numbers/ alphabet in number plates, Song making, antakshari, talking about what we did this time last year , counting cousins we don’t meet often( leads to phone call sometimes- good way to catch up )

  3. Bhavini
    February 26, 2013 at 8:40 am

    Great article Madhavi.

    1. Kids usually take their books to read during long drive.
    2. Memory games (wild/domestic/sea animals, fruits, veggies, mithai – anything we come up with).
    3. Number games – similar to what Jaina has mentioned, starts with simple odd/even, then add a twist to it by doing for different pairs of numbers with one action for each number etc.
    4. Letter games – spellings, rhyming words, take turns to speak different words that start with each letter,
    5. Name, Place, Animal, thing game – verbal version of the paper game that we used to play in school.
    6. Mental Maths – addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, tables
    7. Kids sing their songs from schools or some hindi that they know off
    8. The why game, I spy game

  4. bijalgala
    February 28, 2013 at 12:50 pm

    Not to mention:- IPAD

  5. neelamdharod
    March 3, 2013 at 5:09 pm

    We play Twist the Tune. Manish and Miloni have been lately trying to make their own song.

  6. Jaideep
    March 6, 2013 at 9:39 am

    When kids were younger – used to play “I Spy” (Rushabh’s favourite), “Fish and Buzz” and “Name, Place, Animal, Thing”. Then used to play Antakshari.

    We never let kids read while car was in motion.

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