Hobbies And Interests
Family Scavenger Hunt
Make a list of items for the kids to watch for and check off on a sheet of paper while you are driving. Create a specific list for rural driving, with cows, a silo, railroad tracks and a barn as sample targets. For suburban drives, list a church, someone on a bike and a playground. Be creative and even have the kids help you come up with the list. Draw pictures or cut out pictures from a magazine of the items for kids who cannot read yet.
Caravan Road Trip Hunt
Select teams and divide them up by cars. All members of a team ride in the same vehicle. Come up with a minimum of 20 items for teams to find while traveling for the day. Consider where you are traveling as you come up with the list. Possible items might include a menu from a restaurant you stop at, a picture of your team with a bus driver, and a souvenir with the name of the town you drove through written on it.
Around the Town Hunt
Divide into teams and choose items for the scavenger hunt that are around the town or suburb you live in. Include items you have to bring back, take pictures of and video. Give a time limit on how long your teams will be out driving, and penalize points per minute teams are late returning to the starting point of the hunt. Have an impartial judge or judges tally points for each item, picture and video returned.
House Hunt
Have teams drive around the area you live, or play this while on a road trip. Make a list of different types of homes teams must take pictures of. Ideas might include homes with a picket fence, a yellow house, a home with a dog in the picture, and a home built underground.
Most States Hunt
Play this game either in one car against each other or against other teams in a caravan. While traveling down the road, look for the most different states either on car license plates, written on the back or sides of trucks, or on road and business signs. You can either write the state names down or take pictures if competing with other vehicles.