A few days ago, Hannah says, “You know what would make a terrible travel game?”
Emma has hung out with her father and I too long, so she refused to accept that as a conversation starter and replied, “Hide and seek or Tag.”
Hannah replied, “I was thinking Jenga.”
Bryan and I were thinking “blog post!” 🙂
So here is the list terrible travel games Bryan and I came up with:
- Operation
- Marco Polo
- Pin the tail on the donkey
- Yahtzee (The loud shaking would kill me. Go ahead and play the electronic version with the sound off as much as you want, though.)
- Perfection (the one where you have to put a bunch of little pieces in and they explode out when they are done)
- Mouse Trap
- Pretty Pretty Princess (mostly just because this is a terrible game)
- Memory games with 640 cards (these are also just terrible games)
- Pick up Sticks
- Lawn darts along with its less dangerous cousin bocce
- Canadian rules football
- Bowling, especially using the car as the bowling ball
- Russian roulette
What do we really play on road trips?
- road trip bingo
- I Spy (wif my witto eye, if you’re an adorable toddler)
- various activity books (and yes, I give my kids “car work” instead of homework sometimes to keep them busy)
- audiobooks
- 20 questions
- If you don’t argue with your sister, you can have some goldfish crackers
- And “Here, take my phone and just play ‘Cut The Rope’ or ‘Angry Birds’ or whatever. Just turn off the sound.”
- Guess what’s different on the DVD? (turns out it’s the same every time)
What terrible travel games (or good ones) can you think of ?
