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Like the license plate game only with car models. The play continues with B, C, D, and so on, until there is one remaining player. Starting with A, the first player might say вЂњThe preacherвЂ™s cat is an awesome cat named Amy.вЂќ The second player replaces the two underlined words with others starting with A, such as, вЂњThe preacherвЂ™s cat is an adorable cat named Albert.вЂќ If a player canвЂ™t think of a new word, or if she repeats a word, she is out. To play, each player constructs the same sentence around a letter of the alphabet. The game centers around a sentence in which only two words change. As they explain: HereвЂ™s another alphabet-based memory game for school-age kids. This is a game that we havenвЂ™t played yet but plan to try soon.

This game needs no explanation but we encourage our kids to use grade level words so that our youngest can practice sight words and others sheвЂ™s working on. The goal is to create as many boxes as you can. Two people use different color pens and then connect two of the dots (horizontally or vertically). Place uniform dots equidistant from each other that fill a piece of paper. Sometimes they match (and sometimes they donвЂ™t). We play a version of this where when someone thinks they know the answer they say вЂI know what it isвЂ™ and when there is more than one person that thinks they know the answer they count to three and say the answer together. One person thinks of a person, place or thing and each person asks questions to help guess what the answer is. This is a great game for alphabet recall for younger travelers. We played a version where we were going on a trip and had to list an item that we wanted to pack. Starting with the letter A and going up the alphabet each person has to state an item they want to bring on the picnic. We played this for the first time on our current trip and the kids loved it. We donвЂ™t usually play this in the car, but itвЂ™s a hit at restaurants while waiting for our food order.

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MiniTime has a free printout available on their site as well. We lucked out and got Alaska before leaving Portland and got Hawaii in Wyoming. On our first trip across the country we listed all the states before leaving and then hunted down all 50 during our trip. You can make the boards if you want to save money, and MiniTime uses pennies as the bingo pieces. вЂ“ and you play just like you would bingo.

Each spot on the board are things you might see while driving вЂ“ a police car, bus, dog, station wagon, etc.

You can easily buy the bingo boards for this and there are not expensive. If you have older kids this can get old fast but can amuse little ones for some time. A person starts off with вЂI spy with my little eye, something blueвЂ™ and each person takes a turn guessing the answer. This is a favorite of our littlest and is great for younger travelers. Here are their picks вЂ“ some with our own variations. Of course, five hours in the car is still a long time but we plan ahead with some games that keep the kids busy.Д«efore leaving for our last cross-country trip I did a quick search and came across an article at MiniTime titled 10 Best Car Games for Kids that had some nice ideas worth sharing. This helps minimize the вЂAre we almost there yet?вЂ™ and вЂHow many more minutes do we have?вЂ™ questions that all parents of kids have heard. We take our time and try not to spend more than five hours a day driving. This summer, weвЂ™re moving across the country to Massachusetts and doing the trip by car as well. Two years ago, we drove to Portland, Maine and back. Three years ago, Hannah (then age 8) and Elsa (then age 4), along with my wife, drove from Portland, Oregon to Disney Land. Road trips during summer vacation are a rite of passage for our two kids.

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