Are you headed out of town for Thanksgiving? We are! And our car DVD player is jammed with two DVDs (thank you Locke…grrr…) so watching a movie is not an option on our 6 hour drive to Boise. I am going to have to oil my rusty travel brain and bring out some travel boredom busters (that don’t involve a DVD):
PIPE CLEANERS
On one of our trips this summer, I gave my kids pipe cleaners and they created fun shapes. These were entertaining and mess free.
You could just let your kids create freely or you could play a few structured games. Like have them make something that starts with an A, then a B, etc. Or have them create a shape they see outside the car.
WINDOW MARKERS
My husband hates window markers, but my kids love them. They get to draw on the windows as we drive. My son tried to outline the landscape out his window and my daughter just wanted to scribble.
Again you can allow for free draw or play games like hangman or tic tac toe or pictionary. This idea is way messier than pipe cleaners so make sure the kids help clean out the car when you get home.
WORKBOOKS
My girls love their workbooks and I can get Crew to like them too if he has a goal and a reward. Maybe I will have him work towards a snack instead of a movie. Read this post to find out a great way to use workbooks to earn movie time (assuming your DVD player is working.)
NIM GAME
I read about Nim in Family Fun but we haven’t tried it out yet. I plan to bust it our for this trip. For this game you need 21 small objects. I am going to use buttons.
The game is for two players and you line all the buttons up in a horizontal row. Taking turns each player removes one, two or three buttons at a time. The goal of the game is to keep from being the person who picks up the last button.
To make this game travel friendly I am going to add those sticky magnets to the back of each button and bring along a magnetic cookie sheet. The kids can use the cookie sheet as the game board and hopefully buttons won’t get lost as easily if they are magnetic.
In case you need more travel boredom busters, here are some other posts I have done on travel ideas:
It’s The Journey, Not the Destination
Hope you enjoy your travel this Thanksgiving time.
![I spoke in church today and said the Atonement of Jesus Christ is the greatest act of Charity. I read Moroni 7:45-47 to make my point. But wherever there was the word ‘Charity’ I substituted it out for ‘the Atonement of Jesus Christ.’ See if these scripture verses now have new meaning for you:
“And the Atonement of Jesus Christ suffererth long, and is kind, and envieth not, and is not puffed up, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil, and rejoiceth in the truth,
[The Atonement of Jesus Christ] beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, if ye have not the Atonement of Jesus Christ, ye are nothing, for the Atonement of Jesus Christ never faileth. Wherefore, cleave unto the Atonement of Jesus Christ, which is the greatest of all, for all things must fail-
But the Atonement of Jesus Christ is the pure love of Christ, and it endureth forever; and whoso is found possessed of it at the last day, it shall be well with him.”
So Easter really reminds us of love. The first and greatest commandment.](https://www.raisinglemons.com/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed-pro/img/placeholder.png)
