Tired of your kids being on their screens all day – even when you’re road-tripping? Here are a few old-school alternatives.
For those of us born before the digital age, there wasn’t terribly much to keep us entertained on a family road trip. What we mostly did was engage with everyone else – a novel idea these days.
Want to bring a bit of old-fashioned fun back to your next family driving holiday? Here are four ideas – and there’s not a screen in sight.
- 20 Questions
An oldie but a goodie. Each person, in turn, thinks of a famous person – one that everyone, no matter their age, will know. The others can ask 20 questions that take a yes/no answer to try and find out who the famous person is.
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Numberplate bingo
You will need paper and pens. Everyone writes the 26 letters of the alphabet on a piece of paper. Every time they see one of those letters on the numberplate of a passing car, they can cross the letters off. The first one to cross off all the letters of the alphabet is the winner.
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The last letter word game
Pick a theme – it might be animals or food or three-letter words if you have younger children. The first player says a word related to that theme – say, tiger, if the theme is animals. The next person has to say a word that starts with the last letter of the previous word played. Like rabbit, in this case.
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Memory game
You’ll need to come up with an opening line for this game. For example, “I’m going on holiday and I need to bring…” Each person tries to complete the sentence, remembering the previous word: “I’m going on holiday and I need to bring sunglasses,” “I’m going on holiday and I need to bring sunglasses and a towel.” There’s no right or wrong answer: let your kids be as crazy as they like.