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When I was young and on long journeys with my parents, I would kneel on the back seat waving at everyone who was behind me, keeping a running score of which drives waved back, gave me a thumbs up or flashed their lights at me (sad, I know), these days you can't do that because of the seat belt laws, but me and my children have come up with a game that gives us at least 30 minutes of quiet travelling.  My 4 year old son calls it the shape game and colour game.  I have to come up with a shape or a colour and my children have to find something outside the car that matches the shape or colour.  When bored of that, we move onto "things beginning with the letter......(choose a letter)..."

On our last long trip which was when we collected our caravan, my sone came out with "bum" for the letter b which resulted in the lot of us laughing our bums off for twenty minutes!

It's a good job I was not the one driving!

Try it!

Ellie & Roy, (and the two brats)

we play the alphabet car game find cars beginning with A and so on,,,,

also we got first to spot an eddie stobart,a yellow car,motorbike,caravan,motorhome,buzzard :O)

My kids can't see an awful lot from the boot!!!

Just kidding (although have thought about it).  Play the same games as above when away.  Number-plate game doesn't last long here on the Isle of Man though.  Every number plate is either MAN or GMN, LMN, KMN etc.