"Are we there yet?.....Are we there yet???....Now? Are we there now???"
Ohhh you've heard it before. My response is usually "Have we stopped the car? Are we getting out of the car? Are we walking to the ...........? Well then, we are NOT there yet."
Here's some fun games we use to play (and some we didn't but you may like to)to break up the time as we'd travel....or even during church or times the children need to be occupied.
Mr Squiggle: Here in Australia many of us grew up watching Mr Squiggle Children would send in a squiggle and he would make a picture out of it. He was very clever. (you can find clips of him on youtube and he even has a Facebook page)
What this involves is simply drawing a squiggle of some kind then handing the paper off to the child and they have to make it into a picture of some kind. I usually have them draw a squiggle next and hand it to me. Or you can simply have them hand it to each other.
Another version of this is when I'd write a description of what I want them to draw then let them go for it. For example "A monkey playing cricket with an elephant on a trampoline" or "A fancy race car with square wheels". You get the idea. It keeps them occupied for quite some time.
License plates: Keep track of the license plates you see from other states. See if you can find one from every state. Keep watching!!!
Alphabet: Look at road signs, billboards, license plates, ANYTHING with words/letters. Start at A and go all the way through to Z. The first one to find all the letters wins. Wins what you ask? Well the honour of saying they won is what.
Songs: As I was growing up we loved to sing. The first game we played was shouting out a number (which would be a number from the hymn book) then we'd count to three and start singing the hymn. It was to try and catch everyone out. Then years later they went and changed the hymnbook on us and all the numbers changed.
We'd sing many fun traveling songs. Here's a list and the link takes you to a youtube link so you can hear the song.
One man went to mow....
There's a hole in my bucket.....
There was an old lady.....
Dingle, dangle scarecrow...
Teddy Bear's picnic....
Chitty-chitty-bang-bang....
Do your ears hang low....
On top of spaghetti.....
Found a peanut....
Bringing home a baby bumble-bee....
Here's some links that will take you to even more travel games:
http://lodingo.com/Travel/free_travel_games
http://travelwithkids.about.com/cs/printgames/a/gamesprint.htm
http://childparenting.about.com/od/funcelebrations/a/familytravelgames.htm
http://www.travelgames.co.uk/
Happy Traveling!!
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