March is the month that most schools in California have their spring breaks. My kids’ spring break is the last week of March. If you plan to travel somewhere for the break, take the opportunity to get connected with your kids by playing some games that are creative and stimulating. We often play 20 questions on our road trips. One person thinks of an object and the rest of the family will guess. You can ask a total of 20 questions, to which the answers can only be yes or no. Why don’t you give this a try the next time when you are on the road with your family? Here are ten objects you can start with (our family rule is that only single-word objects are allowed):
- Pocketknife
- Screwdriver
- Orange, or apple, or tangerine
- Panda
- Disneyland
- Skyscraper
- Wet suit
- French fries
- Tiramisu
- Laptop
I am sure everyone has their own strategy. The strategy we use is the following:
- Figure out if the object is gas, solid or liquid
- Figure out what the approximate size of the object is, e.g., is it bigger than me? Is it bigger than my hand?
- Figure out if the object is alive
- When you figure out the above 3, it is amazing how much you can narrow down the choices. Our success rate is about 90%.
We like this simple and yet creative game because it is fun, it engages the entire family, and it trains our children one way to solve problems.
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