Family Travel Game

While you're driving around your city or town, why not treat your kids to a challenging travel game for the car? For this fun family find-it game, form two teams, with each looking out a different window to find the objects you name. Or family members can form one team, with all players pooling their findings.

If you're traveling around a familiar neighborhood, you can give players a list of places, such as the local school, library, park, or a friend's house, that you know you'll pass. Then, during your trip, players call out when they see a place that's on the list. If your place-finders miss any places on your list, remind them to spot them on the way home.

You can also improvise find-it requests for "gas stations," "minivans," "people," and the like as you drive. Set a time limit -- say, five minutes -- and see how many items in that category players can find.

Alternatively, you can challenge your fellow travelers to find items with certain attributes -- for instance, "round," "blue," "tall," or "smooth." Players can then call out all the objects they find in that category within whatever time frame you designate. You can also play an alphabetical find-it, and ask players to find items that begin with whatever letter you call out. If your fellow travelers are up to the challenge, you can even ask them to find objects that begin with all twenty-six letters -- and to call out the items in alphabetical order!

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