How to Pass Time during a Car Ride - Games

The first game that we have played is the license plate game. All that is required for the license plate game is a piece of paper, a writing utensil, and a good eye. The goal of the game is to see who can spot the most license plates. Every time you see a license plate, you write down the state that it came from. At the end of the trip, see who got the most states. Usually it is only really long car rides when you find all fifty states.

          A few years ago, my mother bought a set of auto bingo boards. They are in the shape of regular bingo boards but instead of letters they have pictures of things that you may see in a car (airports, police officers, speed limit signs, etc.) We always bring them along and play a few games in the car. This usually lasts a while and we find it amusing.

          The next game is the alphabet game. This one is similar the lecense plate game but instead of looking at license plates, you look at signs. You start at the beginning of the alphabet; A, and when someone spots the letter A on a sign they yell it out. Then it moves to the next letter; B, and so on and so forth.

         

          Another game, usually for shorter car rides, is the semi game. Each person chooses a color except for white. As soon as all colors are chosen, everyone looks for that color of semi. The person with the highest number wins.

         

          Finally, the last game I have is the celebrity game. To start, someone says the name of a celebrity or a famous person like Brittany Spears. The next person will say the name of another celebrity with the first letter of the first name starting with the previous celebrity’s first letter of their last name. So the next person could say Shel Silverstein. Saying a celebrity with a double letter name, like Mickey Mouse, Ronald Regan, etc., would reverse the order of the people playing. So in this example, the person who said Brittany Spears would be next.  

          Hopefully these suggestions will help you stay occupied during your next car ride, but if not, you can at least say that you knew what to do! (388)