🎮 Car games for kids
The best car games need nothing but the people in the car: I Spy and color hunt for little ones, Twenty Questions and Categories for the dark, and the License Plate Game for the whole trip. Each of the 16 games here has its rules first, then a play screen on the phone: cards to deal, a big letter, or one button the whole car taps.
Not sure which one? Pick a game asks three questions and chooses for you.
For little ones (3 to 5)
Big pictures, colours and animal noises; no reading needed.
- I SpyOne player picks something everyone can see.
- Would You RatherSomeone reads a would-you-rather question.
- Count the CowsWatch the fields for cows.
- Banana!Look for yellow cars and trucks.
- The Quiet GameEveryone in the car is quiet: no talking, no singing, no humming.
- Animal SoundsTap for an animal. Peabody says its name.
- Color HuntTap for a colour. Peabody says it.
- Rhyme TimeSomeone says a starting word, like cat.
In the dark
Talking games that need nothing to see: night drives, tunnels and rain.
- Twenty QuestionsOne player thinks of a thing and keeps it secret.
- Would You RatherSomeone reads a would-you-rather question.
- Story ChainPeabody says the first line of a story.
- CategoriesPeabody reads a category, like "animals that live in water".
- Fortunately, UnfortunatelyPeabody reads the first line of a story.
- Two Truths and a LiePeabody gives a topic, like "your favourite foods".
- Going on a PicnicThe first player says "I'm going on a picnic and I'm bringing an apple": a thing that starts with A.
- The Quiet GameEveryone in the car is quiet: no talking, no singing, no humming.
- Animal SoundsTap for an animal. Peabody says its name.
- Rhyme TimeSomeone says a starting word, like cat.
- Word ChainPick a topic, like animals. The first player says one: cat.
Looking out the window
For daytime highways and country roads.
For big kids and teens
Games with a bit of thinking, good for 10 and up.
- Twenty QuestionsOne player thinks of a thing and keeps it secret.
- The Alphabet GameStart at A. Look for the letter on a sign, a truck or a building.
- Story ChainPeabody says the first line of a story.
- CategoriesPeabody reads a category, like "animals that live in water".
- Fortunately, UnfortunatelyPeabody reads the first line of a story.
- Two Truths and a LiePeabody gives a topic, like "your favourite foods".
- Going on a PicnicThe first player says "I'm going on a picnic and I'm bringing an apple": a thing that starts with A.
- Word ChainPick a topic, like animals. The first player says one: cat.
Three tips for any car game
Play as one car. Games where siblings race each other end in tears by the second hour. Every game here counts for the car together: one tally, one alphabet, one map of plates.
Stop while it's fun. Ten good minutes beats forty tired ones. Switch games before anyone asks to.
The driver drives. The driver can listen and guess, but the back seat does the spotting, the tapping and the reading.
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