Road trip activities

Car Games:

Alphabet: start with A and end with Z...find words that start with your letter on signs as you drive. Each person gets one letter per turn. First person finds their word that starts with their letter (A...Albertsons), then the next person goes (B....Block).

License plate: can you find all 50 states?

I spy: what is in your car?

Cards: old maid, crazy 8's, uno, war, etc.

Tic tac toe

Word search

Connect the dots

Hang man

20 question's

Sudoku

Toys:

Books

Dolls & barbies

Cars/trucks

Coloring books w/ colored pencils (crayons melt if you forget them in the car)

Mad Libs

Make:

Aluminum foil: see what they make. Crowns, shields, doll clothes, etc.

Pipe cleaner: creatures. What animals/shapes/objects did they come up with?

Songs:

WHEELS ON THE BUS

The wheels on the bus go round and round

Round and round, round and round

The wheels on the bus go round and round

All through the town.

(Roll hands over each other)

The wipers on the bus go "Swish, swish, swish,

Swish, swish, swish, swish, swish, swish"

The wipers on the bus go "Swish, swish, swish"

All through the town.

(Put arms together in front of you and

'swish' like windshield wipers)

The door on the bus goes open and shut

Open and shut, open and shut

The door on the bus goes open and shut

All through the town.

(Cover eyes with hands on 'shut' and

uncover them on 'open')

The horn on the bus goes "Beep, beep, beep

Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep"

The horn on the bus goes "Beep, beep, beep"

All through the town.

(Pretend to honk horn)

The gas on the bus goes "Glunk, glunk, glunk

Glunk, glunk, glunk, glunk, glunk, glunk"

The gas on the bus goes "Glunk, glunk, glunk"

All through the town.

(Pretend to fill tank using pointer finger as gas nozzle)

The money on the bus goes "Clink, clink, clink,

Clink, clink, clink, clink, clink, clink"

The money on the bus goes "Clink, clink, clink"

All through the town.

(Pretend to put money in cash box on bus)

The baby on the bus says, "Wah, wah, wah!

Wah, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah!"

The baby on the bus says, "Wah, wah, wah!"

All through the town.

(Fisted hands in front of eyes

and rub them like baby crying)

The people on the bus say, "Shh, shh, shh,

Shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh"

The people on the bus say, "Shh, shh, shh"

All through the town.

(Put pointer finger to mouth to 'shhh')

The mommy on the bus says, "I love you,

I love you, I love you"

The daddy on the bus says, "I love you, too"

All through the town.

(Point to self on 'I',

right hand over heart on 'love', and

point to other on 'you')

Transportation songs here

The Wiggles

Disney songs

Raffi

The Laurie Berkner Band

And for those of you who don't want to listen to children's music the entire way try these songs.