I love travel games! They are affordable, small, portable, and fun.
I never leave home without a game in my purse. I even keep a game or two in our car’s glove compartment or console. Today, I’m sharing my favorites.
The Best Travel Games for Your Family
You don’t need to be a globetrotter to love travel games. We don’t travel very far, but I appreciate how flexible travel games can be. I’ll often keep a basket of travel games on our coffee table or kitchen island as a play invitation!
Travel games for the car or plane
If you are traveling soon, here are tried and true activities for keeping kids busy in the car or airplane.
Card games make fantastic travel games
Our family loves card games. My kids always pack a few card games to play with Daddy when they take ski lessons and I’ll often bring a card game or two to play on the soccer sidelines.
Dice games also make wonderful travel games
Don’t forget dice games when you are looking for small, portable games. Our family has been on a Tenzi and Qwixx kick since the holidays. The kids can’t get enough!
One-player games are perfect for travel
When we go away, I rely heavily on one-player games. One-player games are a wonderful way to keep an early riser entertained when you don’t want everyone awake at the crack of dawn!
Travel games for little ones
Here are some fun games to keep your littlest gamers happy and entertained!
Classic travel games
Let’s not forget portable classic games. We will often pack one of these when we head out to a restaurant. A quick game or two can make waiting for food so much easier!
Don’t forget waterproof games.
I love waterproof games because they are incredibly durable! Don’t forget to check out waterproof games when searching for travel games for your family. Here are our favorites:
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Now, it’s your turn. Tell me: Is your family’s favorite travel game listed here?
We are traveling this weekend and thanks to the game school challenge I thought to throw a few card games in our bag. Tonight at the hotel we played Monopoly Deal before bed and we plan to fit a quick game in before we check out in the morning.
Love this!
Thank you for sharing all of these game ideas! We will be taking our twins on an airplane for the first time this year. They will have just turned 5. I always loved games when I traveled as a kid. It will be fun to get some of these games ready.
My kids and I Are loving the game school challenge! It is great getting recommendations from other families. My amazon wishlist has doubled in the past 3 weeks. Thanks for starting this.
Just added a bunch of these to my wish list! This is the best list I’ve seen yet. Smaller games mean smaller storage space and more portability! Thanks!!
We do a lot of traveling, so I appreciate all the new ideas! Also, Brick Logic – what a plast from my past! I completely forgot about that game, but one of my teachers had that game in their classroom and I remember playing it all the time!
Such a great game!
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We will be traveling again soon and can’t wait to try some new games suggested above. When we have a long road trip, we take “The World’s Greatest Travel Game.” That’s actually the name. It’s bingo but you have to look outside the car to find the objects on your cubes. There’s two trays of cubes (5 levels and an X that you can choose how you play) so we often play front seat and back seat. The only negative is this is a very old game and while level 1 used to be the easy level, it can be very difficult to find a pay phone nowadays! We still enjoy it as an easy game to play and one you can put on hold and come back to at any point.