Fun Minibus Games For Your Next Trip

05 June 2017

With a minibus/coach packed with energetic and excitable children, it would be sensible to prepare activities to make the journey fun. It's less likely for cries of 'are we there yet?' to come from the back of the bus not long after you've set off. 

Road Trip Bingo

Give each child a clipboard with an itemised bingo sheet (with pictures of things you may see on the way) attached and a handful of coins/buttons or markers. When they find see one of the pictures from the bingo sheet while they are looking out of the window they can cover it with thier chosen marker and look for the next one. 

Once all the items in a straight line have been found, that player wins. 

Why not give them an incentive of a prize, team points or golden time points would work well. 

Hangman

A classic roadtrip game for everybody to enjoy with the use of only paper, pencils and something for them to lean on. And an opponent of course. 

The first player thinks of a phrase, book title or film or of course your could ask them to choose something topical to connect it with your school trip or what you have been working on this term in class. 

Player 1 marks out the words but instead of using the letters they simply use underscores. Player 2 has to guess the letters one by one in the hope of completing the word before the hangman has been finished. If their chosen letter isn't in Player ones phrase then player one has to draw the first line of the hangman scaffold but if it is in there then he will just simply write it over the correct underscore. 

It goes on like this until either player 2 guesses the words or player 1 finishes bulding his hangman. 

I'm going on a ... 

An alphabet game that can be played with as little as 2 people but up to how ever many you like and is aimed at children 5 years and above.

Player one starts by saying 'I'm going on a school trip and i'm going to take ... Apples' 

Player two will then repeat the same sentence but moving onto the letter B. 'I'm going on a school trip and I'm going to take a ... Ball.' and so on and so on through the entire alphabet.

Noughts And Crosses

Roadtrips aren't roadtrips without a good old game of noughts and crosses. You can pre print the grids onto paper prior to the journey and hand them out along with pencils and something to lean on before even getting on the minibus. This game is meant to be played by two people at a time. Player 1 to be noughts (0) and player 2 to be crosses (X). They take it in turns to place their 0 or X strategically to make a line of three. 

 

 

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