Screen Free Games for Traveling
- jeffreylukeherman
- Jul 1
- 2 min read
Updated: Jul 3
July brings many fun-filled adventures with family. Whether you are traveling by car or plane, we have a great selection of screen free games to play while traveling on the road that will help your children strengthen their critical thinking skills this summer!
Smart Game – IQ Travel Games
These games are not only portable but also tailored for different learning levels, working on areas such as math deduction, planning, visual-spatial reasoning, and more. Our top favorites are: Twist, Fit, and Noodles.
Magnetic Tangrams
Give your children tasks to complete using Magnetic Tangrams (like making mosaics with certain colors or shapes) to help children work on planning, flexible thinking, and visual spatial reasoning skills.
Guess in 10
When traveling, you often hear, "Are we there yet?" Prevent this question by playing a trivia card game that can involve 2 or more players of any age. Work on skills such as precise language, categorization, and creative thinking! Whether the category is underwater animals or countries of the world, this is a game the whole family can enjoy!
Alphabet Game
Go through the alphabet, taking turns to think of something - Can have a topic in mind like animals or identify something that you see that starts with each letter - Like the “license plate game”.
Road Trip Riddles
Pull out a good ol' fashion book of riddles (or the card set linked below) and start solving! Riddles are a great way to work on critical thinking, language development, and imagination!
Crazy 8s for Kids
With only a deck of cards, you can play this simple game to help pass the time! This game can help with strengthening skills such as processing speed and visual scanning.
Found It
Great for long car rides this scavenger hunt activity uses prompts like: “Can you find... something with a pattern, something smaller than your palm, etc." Players must search their surroundings and find the objects the prompt giver is asking you to look for.
Guess Who
Build areas such as verbal expression, deductive reasoning and effective questioning with this fun, portable version of the game that is great for car rides!
Connect 4
Bring a game of Connect 4 with you to help your young travelers in the back seat to work on areas such as impulse control and planning!
Left, Right, Center
A fast paced and interactive game that helps kids work on directionality.
Coggy
This game helps children to not only build fine motor skills but also logical thinking and planning skills. The object of this game is to recreate a given pattern eliminating the need to rely on trial and error.
