Games For Kids on the Go

In my last post I am talking about my son who needs to have some fun with the kids in the playground. It happened I saw this article from lifescript that I know it will help you especially if you have more than one kid. This is good when you are traveling and you don't want them to get bored. Here they are:

1. Blind Man’s Ride
Have the kids look for something up ahead, then close their eyes and try to guess when they think they’ve reached the selected object. Players call out “Eureka!” and open their eyes to see if they’re right.

2. Freeway Finder
Ask kids to watch for unusual car accessories, such as funny antenna balls, flags, bumper stickers, decals, and so on. Count how many objects you find – the winner is the player who finds the most.


3. Antenna Ball
Buy small Styrofoam balls. Let the kids decorate them with markers, stickers, googly eyes, feathers, and other craft items. They might make a globe, a happy face, a flower, or anything they want. When you park the car, stick the ball on the antenna and you’ll always be able to find your car.

4. Build-A-Bug
Give players paper and markers. Choose any six items you can spot out the window, like a police car, and assign one bug body part to each item. For example, the police car can equal the bug’s body – the first one to spot it gets to draw the bug’s body. A burger sign might be worth the bug’s head, a cow is one eye (you’ll need two!), etc. The first player to complete their bug drawing wins.

5. Collection Jar
Give each child a Mason jar or plastic container and have them collect things along the trip, such as leaves, flowers, pebbles, cocktail napkins, or even dirt. Compare collections at the end of the trip.

6. Hummers
Take turns humming familiar songs and have the others guess. The player who guesses the correct song gets to hum next.

7. Electric Rainbow
Here’s a game you can play while driving at night. Write down the names of colors of the rainbow – yellow, orange, red, purple, blue, green. Watch out the window for electric or neon lights in those six colors. The first player to find all six colors in lights wins.

8. Comic Mix-up
Bring along the Sunday comics, some scissors, glue or tape, paper, and pens. Select several comic strips and black out the words with a black marker. Cut each comic into strips and then into individual panels. Place them in a hat or box, mix them up, and have the kids pick four panels. Have them arrange the panels on their paper and tape or glue them down. They can make up their own captions for each one.

9. Listen Up
Take turns making familiar noises and have the others guess. You might try making the sounds of a gurgling coffee maker, popping toaster, draining bathtub, coins jingling in a pocket, and so on.

10. Scrap It
Give out small scrapbooks and ask the kids to collect items they can tape or glue into them. When the trip is over, they’ll have a great souvenir of their adventure.