Some Simple Travel Games for Car and Train Journeys

Step 4 Bingo!

Of all the games I'm presenting here, this takes the most preparation.

You can buy travel bingo games, but where's the fun in that?

Before the journey, spend some time with good old Google Images and collect images that you may see on your journey, be it road signs, car badges or aircraft.

Print the images into grids, one for each potential player. Depending on the attention span of your children, give each grid 10-20 images. Some images can be used on more than one grid, but every grid must have two or three images that are unique to that grid, to prevent dead heats and arguments.

Give each child a grid and a pencil - when they see something on their grid, they can cross it off, and the winner is the first to cross them all off.

If the game proves popular with your children, you can print the grids on card, laminate them, and mark them off with a dry-wipe pen, like those pens that come with Nobo wallplanners.

If you can't be bothered making up your own grids, they are available online as well, but be careful to select cards that suit your journey. The example below is from About.com's homeschooling section.

Comments

[dukie]

So would you have to drive back to check the winning card?