UTCT and Drumond Park have teamed up to give one lucky visitor the chance to win a family games bundle worth £78. Simply scroll down to the bottom of this page to find out how to enter.
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About The Family Games Bundle:
This month we are happy to be offering a great prize of a Family Games Bundle – a trio of top board games from Drumond Park, which people of all ages will enjoy. They’ll be great for multi-generational family gatherings over Christmas – or as presents, of course.
In the Sshh!, Don’t Wake Dad electronic board game (rrp £22.99, age 5+) players must creep past a sleeping Dad as he snores in his bed. In the LOGO What Am I? game (rrp 24.99, age 8+), children guess, draw of describe ‘big brand’ products and objects. And the fascinating, fast paced Best of TV & Movies picture board game (rrp £29.99, age 12 to adult) celebrates all things entertainment.
Here’s a little more about each game:
- Sshh! Don’t Wake Dad is for age 5+, although we have found that once the board is set up and everything is ready to go, the entire family will want to pitch in and have a good time! The central figure is, indeed, a ‘Dad’ who snores loudly throughout the game. But wait for it… he jumps bolt upright from his bed when he’s woken from his sleep!
- Next up is LOGO What Am I?, which is ideal for children aged 8+. It is the junior version of the classic best-selling LOGO game, where players are asked to ‘guess it’, ‘draw it’ or ‘describe it’ – and it’s great fun if the grown-ups join in too!
- And thirdly we have The Best of TV & Movies, for players aged 12 to adult. The hundreds of picture cards feature oodles of questions and answers on much loved TV dramas, sit-coms, chat shows, reality shows, favourite films and cartoons.
For stockists and to play games online visit www.drumondpark.com And for grown-up giggles and to share adult games experiences, go over to their ‘Not so Quiet Night In’ blog at www.drumondpark.com/blog/
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This competition ends on August 30th at midnight with winners being notified the following day. Read our full competition terms and conditions here.
Eye spy when travelling with my family.
Spot different things on a journey ..then they after to try and remember what they were and where on our way back.
We play eye spy , or sing along to our favourite music
I-SPY
To keep my 4 year occupied we play eye spy or play games on her leap pad
Whoever goes to sleep first wins a prize! (not the driver!) ????
The Alphabet game – Take turns going through the alphabet thing of for example countries or fruits and vegetables eg A – Australia
If children are older print out a copy of the map for the route you are going and get them to follow the journey marking off as they pass motorway numbers/landmarks as you go
I-Spy and Counting Cars
We play “I Spy ..”
sometimes ‘something beginning with’ and sometimes something of a given colour which enables the youngest to join in.
We make a list before setting off for items to spot while we travel my children seem to enjoy ticking them off as and when they see
A bagful of small toys, books, puzzle books
We always have a cd going and like a sing song
play I spy
count a certain colour of cars
sing songs
Singing in 3 part harmony
I have special boxes that we use on long journeys. They usually contain snacks, drinks, magazine, colouring book, new toy, pencils etc. They give me 2 hours peace!
at the moment we pokemon hunt
we play word games either what is the word in english, we speak french or describe what you see with saying what it is lol great fun
We normally play eye spy or how many colour cars there is and mark them off
We play I Spy and sing songs
We sing a lot when travelling. It kills time and keeps everyone entertained.
Wotsit sculpting! Lick a Wotsit crisp, stick it to another, and see what you can make! Points awarded for each Wotsit used, and extra points for creativity, uniqueness and least mess made!
I draw lots of things we were likely to see on route in a jotter pad & have fun ticking them off & scoring points along the way… Of course the person with the most points wins a special prize! Lol!
I think the little Ispy books are great for car journeys
We play first one to see. We name an item eg yellow car and first one to spot it wins and then it’s their turn to choose.
we play a game called the connect game, one person says something like sea, and the other person has to say a word that connects like, sand, and so on (like mallets mallet)
I bought some Usborne Travel Activity Cards. They are great. They give lots of things to do and make journeys so much easier. They are wipe clean and come with a pen. No more bored journeys!
I provide him with books and fun little games, obviously the kindle works too! we try and play car games as well.
I love to play I spy with my kids, but they are both still young so we ‘spy’ by colour in our game!
Great way to build language skills, fab interaction and let’s just face it; it’s downright fun!! <3
We like to play i-spy and count things we see along the roadside. We also sing songs and tell jokes.
Play i-Spy
We give the kids a picture list of things to look out for on the journey. We also have a load of mini travel games to keep them occupied.
before we set off we make a list of things we need to spot on our journey and then all look for them. some might be really easy but we do put some harder ones in too.
we like to play eye-spy, 1st person to see a certain coloured car, listen and sing to music 🙂
We play a game called ‘hit the road jack!’ We think of a theme and we have to name things, people, places anything you like to do with that theme. If anyone else repeats what you say, you sing ‘hit the road jack!’ That person is out. Great fun as it involves listening and lots of concentration!
We play a travel game are we there yet, we all get rather competitive lol
We love to play I spy and 20 questions!
We usually play Around the World – where the first person names something beginning with A, second something beginning with B….and so on – with three boys, topics usually include Premier League players/Sports teams. I also like ‘I went to the shop…’, it’s great for the kids’ memories – my youngest has got a memory like a steel trap!
We like to play Mallets Mallet in the car, it’s fun and kids love it.
As our son is older now he tends to play on his psp and watches movies, but when he was younger we used to tally the car colour and Mark them Down and when we arrive find the colour of the most popular car.
We sing songs, play eye spy and look for things such as a red car or a blue lorry.
eye-spy books
A fun little game called “Keep Quiet, Earn a pound” :))
we play I spy, listen to music or read
Spot the ****** (whatever there are lots of in the area!)
We play visual games or I give them some activity books x
I-Spy
We choose a car number plate that has driven past us and make up a phrase.
eg.
YE61 WFD
Young Edward 61 would fly donkeys
(make it as funny as you like doesn’t have to make sense)
Who can spot the most Eddie Stobart lorries.
we play eye spy- you cant go wrong x
We sing songs
Cheese on wheels, spotting yellow cars
Ispy 🙂
I Spy
We each choose a colour of car and whoevers colour we see gets a point
We play Norbert!! First one to spot a Norbert Dentressangle lorry gets a point. Minus points if you mistake another red truck.
Pub Sign Cricket
colour clash if you see someone wearing that colour that is your date, my kids more adult
we count how many different colour cars we can see
We sing and play i-spy. I also take a small range of toys and books for my son to look at.
We make a list before we go of things to spot ie a Tesco lorry, mobile caravan etc then tick them off as they are spotted.
We play I spy and a good selection of colouring books comes in very handy
Counting and spotting vehicles – red ones, pick up trucks, white vans, etc..
I make an activity backpack with lots of things to do like, colouring and games, Keeps the quiet for ages.
I Spy!
Can you spot any animals cos we always travel around the countryside
Eye spy or if I am very organised we have a sheet of items they need to tick off on their travels e.g. Red Truck, Aeroplane.
We always pack up games we can play in a car, along with books. We also play the pub game, where you get points for legs. We also stop ocasionaly so they can run and stretch their legs
I tell the children to pick different colour cars and tell them to count the colour cars that we pass and whoever has seen the most colour car wins a prize.
Spot 10 cars of a certain colour or spot 10 motorbikes.
We play sing what you see then the next person has to carry on the song. Keeps everyone occupied.
Eye spy
count how many different colour cars we see
We play eye spy or spot the colour or guess how many of a certain thing you can spot , eg how many red cars or tractors
i spy
We try name the different cars we see whilst travelling
3 boys and they know more than me
Keeps them entertained for ages
Singing along to music
Books on CD, singing, eye spy, 20 questions X
A game called ‘Guess the celebrity’… we made it up. It is like charades without the gestures 🙂 Great fun!
I spy.
When we get in the car we tend to try and get in first with the questions; ‘where are we going again?’ ‘How long until we get there.’ ‘What time is it?’ ‘What time will we get there?’ ‘Can we stop for a toilet break already’ ‘are we nearly there yet?’ Then throw in an ‘I’m hungry’. That seems to put a stop to the silly questions. It’s then a mix of who can sing in the loudest worst voice and who can spot a…. And making times tables questions and answers from th numbers on number plates
count the different coloured cars
Singing competitions!
has to be good old eye spy or we play a game to see who can spot the most yellow cars
we play lots of spotting games, the first one to see a taxi, bus, white car etc
Eye spy
We play i-Spy or sing along to kids cd’s
I spy
We sing songs & play i spy.
good old fashioned eye spy 🙂
We listen to audio books!
We play the number plate game. You have to make a sentence or phrase from the letters on a number plate.
If we are travelling by car, we like to try and find 3 of the same coloured cars in a row. Great fun and keeps her occupied for ages
My son usually plays on his Leappad
Our kids have in car DVD players but we also play “Spot”, whereby one person details a thing to spot and the winner then chooses the next thing – sometimes it can get quite tricky!
Sing songs and tell stories xx
Magazines and music.
We play A-Z games fruit, animals things to take on holiday etc
we play the number plate game – where we find the alphabet one letter at a time on passing cars
The first person to spot something
Eye spy – it drives me amd
we pick a colour and count cars of same – first one to spot gets a point – lots of shouting!!
We do lots of things, reading out loud, looking for landmarks, letter and number games.
We play eye spy and other ‘who can spot…’ type games
Eye Spy and lots of singing!
We play the number plate game – finding each letter of the alphabet on number plates!
play eye spy usually passes some time
I cheat with iPads, but we do play iPod idol.. where they have to guess from my singing what I am listening to on my iPod.
Singing, I Spy and the Colour Car Game.
I Spy
20 questions to guess an animal. We usually end up with the giggles when kids get mixed up and think a fish is a mammal!
Everything from I-Spy to colouring in!
Making up stories and playing I-spy
We like to sing our favourite songs on journeys out in the car x
I always bring an ipad so the kids can watch movies…total life saver!
Car bingo and I-Spy.
A check list of things we need to spot eg a huge droopy tree, a horse in a field, a man washing his car
play yellow car
We play ispy bingo or tell each other funny stories using things we can see on our travels
We try to spot as many many things as we can beginning with a letter from the alphabet. The winner then chooses the next letter.
i spy ! i always pack a few cards games and colouing books too
We have spot the yellow car, books, food, I spy, spot the wildlife. Tell a story by going around and following on from each other – the kids stump me lots of times! Food and whatever else my imagination and theirs suggests. Most importantly, travel at night when they’re young.
I Spy is a favourite!
We have to make up funny names using the letters from the number plate of the car in front.
We do puzzle books
I Spy
Plenty of snacks, colouring books and word games
Spot the lorry… Really simple for toddlers, but fun for all. We’re quite a competitive family so it gets lots of laughs.
Spot the animals or finding a pre determined object for example a mini or HGV lorry
I spy
Good old eye spy always fun
I find that a small travel connect four keeps them occupied for ages
Eye Spy and singing. sometimes at the same time
We play the memory game i packed my case eg i packed my case with suncream then the next says i packed my case with suncream and sunglasses and on and on…gets their brains working to, We love games in our family and would love to win.
What am I
Famous five audiobooks
Puzzle books and card games
Eddie Stoppard watching !!
colouring, eye spy and bingo
I spy
Variety is the spice of life. DVDs, colouring, Ispy, singing along to CDs
We make words up from car registration plates
We make up sentences with the car licence plates we see on our travels
We pick a colour and see how many of the cars of our colour we can spot
Thanks to my sister, we play a game called yellow car. We see how many yellow cars we spot on the way and get 20p for each one!
We sing a lot..(badly)
Making names or words from car registration number plates
spot the mini!
I Spy, Travel Connect 4, colouring, singing
We love to play iSpy when we’re travelling with the kids, but also we have bought travel aquadoodle kits! They keep the kids entertained for ages xx
we olay several games lately we all have a go at describing a cartoon character and the others have to guess who it is eg hes cool wears a hat and lives in a bin…topcat etc etc
Singalong & activity books
make up songs about family members
we play i spy
We go through the alphabet spotting things as we pass them. Then when they bored of that we revert to ‘Eye Spy’
Sing songs and play word games x
I spy and singing songs.
Like everyone else we play I spy or ‘first to spot a …….’ We also play who can make a fruit pastille sweet last the longest. This involves no chewing or even sucking and keeps the children quiet for at least 10 minutes!
We play the alphabet game. Pick a category (pop star, celeb, cars, cities, countries etc). Start at A and then each person has to carry on with the next letter. Great for learning and having fun and some of the incorrect answers have been really funny.
We usually play spot the colour or guess is that siren a fire, police or ambulance one.
Colour of other cars games
We give them a spotter sheet and first to spot all the items on it wins.
I spy and looking out for animals and identifying them.
We play word association, it expands my sons vocabulary and is fun! So if I say fish…he could say sea or shark etc!
we play spot the Wili Betz lorries x
Eye spy always a good fall back, as is the yes / no guessing game
As I don’t drive myself I always sit on a back seat with kids instead of front passenger seat. We sing, play flash cards, draw and play I spy. It’s lots of fun but it’s also a hard job to keep them entertain especially on a long journey.
I find Duct Tape and handcuffs very handy till we are there yet!
puzzle books and colouring in are the best for my kids
My stepson doesn’t need to much entertainment as we don’t drive so take trains and he is literally obsessed with them knows everything there is so we spend most journeys with him teaching me all about the type of train we’re riding on!
Normally have a magazine or sticker book. Then they play on tablets and a=watch films.
I Spy is very popular
we play eye spy or first one to spot the three legged donkey wins a prize keeps em occupied haha
While travelling we are recognising the car bards.
play ‘Yellow Car’
EYE SPY IS EASY AND FUN TOO
We play ISpy in Italian so that I can learn new words with my step son! 🙂
We sing songs and play I-spy
We play eye spy, watch YouTube on mobile
If its a really long journey we have dvd players
we play I-spy
Counting various coloured cars
Has to be I spy.
my boys love a game of car bingo or the i-spy books are fab too
Karaoke, I Spy, Making up stories and chatting
We play I spy games, such as who can be first to spy 10 red cars or 6 coaches etc
we make up a story one line at a time, taking it in turns to say the next line.
Noting how many of each supermarket or store vans we see
We have a create a word from the numberplate game, you’re allowed to add vowels only.
We sing a LOT of songs ????
When our own children were growing up they had a game that i still don’t understand, it was called “are we there yet”?? arrrgghh!!!!!
I spy and I spy colours with younger children
I spy and games
I spy is our favourite game to play.
We always play Pub Cricket when we’re travelling with our son. Taking turns, the first person looks out for the next pub the car’s passing by and if it’s for example the Red Lion, they score 4 points (4 legs). The next person then looks for another pub and if this is for example the Coach and Horses, then it might score 10 points (2 horses and the human driver – 10 legs). Sometimes there will be no score ( e.g.The Cocked Hat or Tudor Rose etc). The winner is the person with the most points at the end of the game.
I think technology is your friend when it comes to car journeys. They can watch movies or play games, it makes the time go quicker
Alphabetic lists of food, animals etc
On a long journey we play Robert Wiseman spotters. First person to see one of his friesian cow lorries that yells “MOOO” wins a point…
singing. especially making up our own funny lyrics
I put up my dual screen portable dvd with a film on.
We take lots of travel games and a pack of cards when we are travelling with the children and we make sure we schedule lots of stops.
Playing spot the animals
The good old eye spy our who can spit the colour of a car someone says the first ????
We like to play spot the coloured car with my little boy
Motorway Bingo- bits of A4 create the grid write in selection of things might see on the way and tick off as move through. Treats for a line and house!
I Spy and we look for the first person to sport certain things
Allow the children to choose 3 or 4 non-messy items to bring with them. Throw in a few ‘I spy’ type games for everyone in the car.
We all pick a different colour of a car and whoever has counted the most cars of that colour by the time we reach our destination is the winner
I-Spy never fails
We have a sing song with material to suit and chosen by each member of the travelling party in turn. Great fun! We’re there in no time.
We play games such as counting how many red cars can you count/ snap and can’t say yes or no game
We always play eye spy & car bingo
We have some I-spy books which keep kids entertained and sing along to tunes
I-Spy
eye spy or make up stories about what we are seeing out the window
Get the iPad out!
You can’t beat the old classic i-spy 🙂
i-spy 🙂
we play a game called mini nips and everytime we see a mini the first person to shout it wins a point.
We make a list of things to spot and have a competition
We play eye spy and the first one to see specific cars, vans etc.
We like to play I spy
We love listening to audio cd’s then take it in turns to ask questions on it to make sure we all been listening.
we play – the first one to spot…. it gets quite competitive!
Singing altogether!!!
Mine love rock music so I make sure I play AC/DC on a loop. The head banging also makes them tired so if it’s a long journey they will sleep. Bonus!
We play i-spy and finding colours of cars and lorries.
We play Eye spy when travelling, passes the time.
We usually use our iPads to distract the kids when we’re travelling
Travel board games, the magnetic ones so the pieces don’t get lost on the floor!
Take turns going through the alphabet naming a country/film/animal beginning with that letter
We play eye spy xxx
Look out for Eddie Stobart lorries
We play loads of games eye spy spot the Eddie stobart trucks,
First one to spot 10 red lorry’s or yellow lorrys
Word searches and cross words
We play a sort of car bingo where each person is looking for a particular thing and scores when it is found i.e. a red car, an ambulance, a post box etc.
I spy or if too young to play thatthen th first to count to 10 different coloured cars eg Red one time and Yellow another
My grandchildren never tire of testing me on spelling, times tables, science, maths etc. They know I was a primary school teacher but this does not deter them 🙂
We give them laminated cards with thing to look for like phone boxes or a yellow door etc, first one to tick them all off wins then they swap cards and start again.
I spy and count the chosen make/colours of cars
We play yellow mini soft top, we have to spot yellow cars, minis and soft tops and there are bonus points for spotting an actual yellow mini soft top!
disney movies and boos because I need a virtual baby sitter as I am a single parent, so am usually driving x
We look for yellow cars.
Ispy
Eye Spy or everyone has a different vehicle colour to spot and we see who spots the most in 10 minutes
‘I went to market…’ much to my husband’s dismay.
We play the classic I Spy, and yellow car!
I-SPY, Nursey sing along CD’s and the Nintendo DS 🙂
We play guess that tune. Someone hums a song and the rest have to guess the title.
We play name the make and model of cars!
We play i-Spy, but also the kids love to play games on their phones / ipads.
Story CDs
Definitely i-spy 🙂 an old favourite for us!
We travel on trains a lot so we like to guess what is in the cargo trains that pass! Reading a story together is one of our favourite things to do while travelling too!
Eye Spy
I spy with my little eye.
Have to guess the colour of next car or i spy
Sticker book 🙂
Play Eye Spy!
We shout PING PING if we see a yellow car
We play alphabet games and making up stories.
We count the yellow cars!
A treasure hunt that picks out monuments, historical sites, museums, places of interest etc – which teaches them something about their journey and they have fun too.
The kids have a tick sheet and have to spot different vehicles along the way
I make a picture bingo sheet with things like postbox, policeman etc and they tick it off as they see them, they love it and it keeps them amused for ages
I spy. Spotting colours or types of car/truck/caravan. Making up silly words to songs. Watching DVD’s if we’re on a journey longer than an hour.
CAR BINGO.
Well, we start by giving the boys different coloured tshirts. That is their colour. First to 10/20/50/100 car spots of their colour wins that round. Then it’s look for things of that colour.
Then the bingo cards come out with specific items – phone box, caravan, motorbike, cows etc
I have put all the cds that came with their picture books in the car and they are loving listening to them! It really calms them down when they start getting giddy on a long journey.
we love to play eye spy and I went to the supermarket games
Memory games – “I Spy”, “When Granny went shopping” etc
word games and stories
We make a list of things to look out for and then cross them off.
counting coloured cars or finding the the landmarks as you go along
We Sing all the way
I wrap presents up and every 30 minutes or hour they get to open one
from their bags .The presents are just the usual sticker books travel games etc but the children love this
car number plates, we start at 1 and then see who can spot 2, then 3 and so on. one point for each first spotted. This can keep us going for a very long time 🙂
We play the car game. It started off with a point for a mini and evolves every month or so with a new category – as we have been playing for years it now goes :
1 point for a mini, a Ford K, a Supercar, a Fiat 500, any pink car, any yellow car, any purple car, 2 points for a horse box, an ice cream van, a campervan and any mini with a union jack roof, 5 points for a taxi, and 10 points for any emergency vehicle and also wierdly 10 points for a green Diahatsu.
After a while we developed the 10 points off rule if anyone gives you a certain car i.e we use a micra (cos we always take the mickey out of nanny’s micra)…….this game evolves with our personal likes of cars.
we play a game what we call the link game (it is like malletts mallett ) I say one word and we take turns saying a word that links to it ie, Sea, sand, glass etc
we sing songs and play games such as eye spy and i went to the shop and bought….
If we are in the car we try and make words from the car regestration letters, or we each pick a colour and count the cars to see who can get the most.
We sing songs and play eye spy. Drinks and snacks help and a tablet to watch cartoons
We play eye spy and eric stobbart names
We sing a lot of songs 🙂
Playing I Spy and singing songs
I spy with my little eye…
20Q is good
I-Spy or car or lorry colours
Who can keep the silence for the longest always work a nice peaceful journey ????
We play i spy
nieces and nephews – portable DVD player or colouring books
We love playing car games like eye-spy and the A-Z game and we also enjoy singing.
A-Z game – name something beginning with A, next person repeats and thinks of something beginning with B etc
We play car colours cheese on wheels snow on wheels ridiculous names lol
Card games or Uno
Pick a make/ model and colour of car and note down who spots the most e.g. red mini. The winner chooses where we stop for lunch/dinner
We enjoy playing ‘ my aunt went shopping!’
We used to play spot the stated colour/brand of car, but have now progressed to making words from number plates!
always eye spy
we play traffic and car themed games.. for example we each pick a colour and then try to add all the colours of cars we see..for older kids a few fun but educational apps downloaded onto a phone/tablet will occupy hem
Make sure there are lots of things to occupy them like watching out for certain types of vehicles, colours and wildlife.
We like to have a sing off 😀
we play car bingo – we have to be the first to spot a car of each colour to win
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We play music games with the radio – have to name the song, the singer / group or sing the next line etc.
Sticker and activity books, picture consequences, I-spy and lots of snacks!
We play lots of games such as counting cars, each person picks a different colour and the winner is the one with the most cars.
Another game we like to play is ..I went to the market and bought some apples, then the next person repeats it and adds their own item, until we’ve gone through the alphabet, or someone gets it wrong, then the game ends.
We also love a game of yes, no, black or white . And if it’s a long journey I also pack crayons, pens, puzzle books and coloring books.
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We always used to count the Eddie Stobart lorries and try to read the name of the lady written on the windscreen. We also used to count how many cars of a certain colour we could see. Anything to keep them entertained for a few minutes!
we play spot the wind turbine. It keeps him happy haha
We like eye spy and guess the amount of coloured cars
I-Spy, sing a longs etc.r
My Granchildren & me all love singing to Musicals they know nearly all of them from oliver , Annie , Frozen and the like & we Sing popular songs too . its great fun and they love it too .
We turn the radio up and have a good old sing along, great fun and makes the journey go faster! ????
I-spy, tablet, dvds, snacks, whatever keeps em quiet
I buy my sons the cbeebies magazines because they have always got things in their magazines like art and crafts, I read them a story from the magazine and they can colour in which is also educational this is how I occupy my sons when travelling and time goes fast when you having fun!
We have a competition to see who will see the most Eddie Stobart lorries. Whoever sees the lorry first gets a point. It’s normally my husband and son versus my daughter and me. I think the most we’ve seen between us on one journey was 117.
We play ‘Name a country beginning with A,B,C…’,City, Name, Football Team…etc!!!!
We play spot the lorry, various points for various lorries. You get a full 10 points for an Eddie Stobart!!
i spy starting with a ,b c,d
name that tune ,
round the world, name a country and its capital
We sing Disney songs and count red cars
Pokemon Go, ISpy or count coloured cars.