It’s wonderful to travel in the car as a family and experience new and exciting places, however, sometimes the journey and a child’s need to stay seated in a carseat for long periods of time can prove difficult. Here are 5 family car games that your family can enjoy playing while on the road. They are sure to keep everyone happy.
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5 family car games that your family can enjoy playing while on the road
20 Questions
Take turns to think of an object, person or animal. Players only have 20 questions to find out what the object, person or animal is. The answers can only be ‘yes’ or ‘no’.
Story Telling
Take it in turns to contribute one word to create a unique story.
Paper, Scissors, Rocks
Such a classic game to play and can be enjoyed by the whole family.
Number Plates
Using the number plates on the cars nearby, take turns to create fun and unique sentences.
Eg. M-B-G = Mum brushes goats.
Colour car spotting game
Use the FREE printable provided, have your child check off the coloured cars that they see them.
Click to download the above car game printable.
Ford recently gave me the opportunity to go exploring with the family in their 2016 Ford Kuga and share my thoughts with you on how it drives. Now let me be honest, my husband is a mechanic by trade and when it comes to cars, his standards are high. Our feedback about the Ford Kuga is literally from the point of view of us as parents, with one of us being a car expert.
So in short, we were actually very impressed with the car and that there is a lot to love about the Ford Explore Kuga. If you’re looking for a family car that is great value and something with all the latest safety and comfort features then it’s one to consider.
As a family we enjoyed a lovely weekend away, which gave us the time to really test out all the features and find out what bells and whistles it has. Here are some of the features that we thought were amazing and worth sharing –
Safety
- All round air bags to keep the whole family safe
- Rear view camera
- Adaptive Cruise Control. Car will adjust its speed to accomodate traffic!
- Hill Launch Assist. Stops the car rolling backwards on a hill.
Technology
- Hands-free power tailgate. Simply wave your foot under the boot and it opens!
- Active Park Assist. Parks your car for you!
- Voice Command technology
- Sound clarity
Features and extras
- Push button start/stop
- EcoBoost
- Value for money! Contact your nearest Ford dealer for details.
Obviously having a safe and reliable family car is important. We loved playing games and being together as a family while road testing the Explore Ford Kuga 2016. It’s a great car that we all really enjoyed traveling in and with it’s great safety features, we’d suggest you consider it for your next car.
What is your ideal car trip with kids?
I wish I had known about these games before we took an 8 hour long car trip with Miss 5 who had just learnt how to whistle…
The car looks great!
Ba hahaha oh you certainly needed these games Kylie. The Ford Kuga is an awesome car. 🙂
We love playing games in the car on road trips, but the kids are getting a little bored with them, so this is awesome. We’ll definitely be giving these a try on our next trip.
Thanks so much Peta. They are simple and great classics. For some reason I often forget those. LOL
Glad I could help you out.
Looks like a fantastic car. Thanks for the games ideas, until so far our go-to car game has been the quiet game, lol. Whoever talks is out, the person who stays quiet for the longest wins! The kids actually love it but it’s a huge cop out on our part 😉
Hahaha that’s hilarious Kate. I’ll seriously have to try that one.
Love these games! Anything to make a family trip more enjoyable! We also love to see who can tear a ‘Mintie’ wrapper into the longest strip…the chewy mintie usually helps yo keep them ‘silent’ too lol. xx
Ooooohhhhhhh good one. I used to love that game but was never any good at it. I’ll keep that one in mind. 🙂
Great games, I’ll have to keep your list handy ?
Thanks Kelly. Hard to go past a few of the old classic games.
Great game ideas, now to decide where to go! 😉
Oh Christie you need to get yourself to Melbourne of course! 🙂 Thank you.
oh we SO needed that chart, we just took a road trip and lily wanted to play spotto. she said points were for yellow or pink cars… lol not a lot of them on rural roads!!!!! the Kuga looks amazinggggggg – great for road trips and anything else!
Thanks Kate. It is a fun checklist and great for children learning their colours. Oh seriously, the Kuga was super impressive. 🙂
I’ve seen this car before and LOVED it. So many amazing features. I would LOVE to get one next time we have a car, I’ve already told hubby it’s on my wishlist hehe
Totally impressive, right! There were so many incredible features for such a reasonable price.
Road trips can be so much fun and your tips are perfect for my next one with the kids. I love the printable, my girls will enjoy it. They also love looking for punch buggies!
Oh I’ll have to look up that type of buggie Penny. Thank you!
Since we live a long way from everything… we spend a LOT of time in the car, so these games ideas are awesome! Thanks!
So wishing I had a nice new car too… this will be my second summer without working air conditioning! 🙁
Thanks Kate. Oh gee, no air conditioning would make for a long summer.