Caravan holidays with kids

[LizziePope]

This week, Practical Caravan's Motty is blogging about keeping kids occupied on long drives – click here. What are your experiences and your top tips?

 

[Raywood]

We used to have a pack of cards with different pictures on them with things like tanker, coach, church and the like that you could spot when driving. They each got five cards and the first to get all five won. Not sure if it is still available though but you could make up your own set. It does need more than one or you can join in but it worked well when we had three children.
We did also play number plate bingo using a bingo card and the driver calling out the last two numbers on car number plates as they went past, or if we passed them, but this no longer works with current numbers although someone might work out a variation.

 

[Mel]

Best parenting: Have a bag of small things ( sweets, fruit, small toys, drawing things, etc) and play "junctions". When you pass a particular motorway junction ( you make a list before leaving) the children have to notice and then they get a dip in the bag.
Not so great but far easier parenting: put a load of offline games on a tablet and ignore them all the way.
Mel

 

[Beanyman]

In car DVDs or mini punch game.

Mini punch - 1 point for every mini you spot & 100 points for a yellow mini

 

[Mogwyth]

Travel through the night, roads are quieter, kids sleep simples. Not that its an issue for us ours nowadays are grown-up.

 

[crazyguider]

the 'doubles' game. Every time you see a double letter or number on a reg plate, you score a point. a triple resets the game. My 16 & 13 yr olds love it!

 

[saint-spoon]

£21 for a tank of fuel... did he blog that in the 70s?

 

[Thingy]

When ours were young, and when I was alone in the truck, I used story tapes a lot. Now CDS or via ipod, always found it kept the kids quiet.

 

[KeefySher]

We used to play 'yellow car', try to spot them.

In the days of the 1 August registration change spot the new registration cars.

Nowadays it's iPad in the back to read books, watch films, listen to music - keeps young un occupied