And we just finished this special about travel by car with children that we have been developing step by step during the last days in Babies and more, and we do it talking about the alternatives we have for the DVD in the car: games and entertainment lifelong with which children can get distracted during the trip and forget to ask us the dreaded "how much is missing?"
Simple travel games
Simple because they do not require any type of accessory and because they are quick to assemble. We have the following examples:
- Riddles. From the simplest, as "gold seems, silver is not" to true enigmas for the intelligence of the human being, riddles constitute the ancestral game par excellence. They are ideal to pass the time since the more elaborate they are, the more minutes they take to resolve, although an excess of difficulty can turn the hobbies into a frustrating experience that will motivate the child to leave the game.
- I see I see. Divinatory amusement popularized by the homonymous song by Teresa Rabal played as a dialogue: "I see, I see. What do you see? A little thing ... And what little thing is it? Start with the letter ... A". And here the interlocutor has to express his imagination thinking about visible objects whose names begin with that letter. The game has a color variant, the so-called "color-color", which replaces the track of the initial letter with the color of the object sought.
- Count items. If the myth of counting sheep exists to sleep, to travel there is nothing like counting elements of the same color. For example, "red cars". It will increase the difficulty of the challenge of selecting hard-to-find colors, but exceeding ourselves with that parameter may leave the child as impossible, since there is nothing more boring than looking for lilac cars with green moles when we know that we will not find any.
- Tell jokes It can be stimulating for the most grown-up children, although normally it will be for little unless all those who travel in the car are great humorists; In any case, it can be used as an emergency resource among other games.
- Sing songs It can be fun to some extent, although to avoid possible discomfort for the rest of the occupants of that enclosed space that is the cabin of a car, it is convenient to reserve this resource as an intermediate between the rest of activities.
Elaborate travel games
That, eye, they are simply made with a pencil and a piece of paper. To name a few, we have:
- Three in a row, which is made on a board of three rows and three columns drawn with four lines and then fill it, in turn, with the symbols X and O, one for each player, in which whoever manages to place three equal symbols on the same line wins .
- Hangman, which consists in guessing a word from the knowledge of the number of letters that make it up. For each letter, an underscore (_) is drawn and the participant must propose letters that he thinks can be part of that word. If it is correct, the letter is written on the corresponding script, and if it fails, an outline of a hanged character is drawn, with as many elements as difficulty we want to give the game: the greater the number of elements, the less difficult to guess the word before of finishing the hanged man.
- Draw, paint and color, which is nothing more than giving the child a piece of paper and let him express all his creativity with a pencil, a pen or lots of markers. Depending on how the child is, we will have to leave his repertoire of colors in a simple pencil to avoid problems of dirt in the seats, although today there are already cars that contemplate that problem and come equipped with upholsteries that repel stains.
Travel games purchased
There will always be someone who says that all of the above is very good until the child has a certain age, but that from a certain moment it is best to buy some travel games, and in that field we can basically differentiate:
- Standard Magnetic Games, such as chess, checkers or parcheesi, for example, that we can find in any toy store at a great price. They have the advantage that the magnets prevent the pieces from moving freely, but they have the disadvantage that the pieces are usually very small, so it is necessary to ensure that they are not lost or, in the worst case, that no child Ingest them.
- Commercial pocket games, like the travel versions of the Who's Who, the Trivial Pursuit or the Monopoly, to name the best known, that for belonging to specific manufacturers we will find in the market for a cost somewhat higher than the games mentioned above. Anyway, it is a valid option for those who want those games in particular.
Finally, we must remember that those who play on board a car are children and their companions, but never the driver, who has a much more serious task at hand: get the car trip with children to come to fruition.
And to good port, I hope, we have finished arriving with this special of Babies and more on travel by car with children and babies, I hope you liked it. For me, it has been a pleasure. Bye!
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