Sometimes a simple game helps pass the time, whether in the car or in a line or a waiting room.
This is basically the ABC game with names. It's fun to think of names of people we all know and we like to divide it into boys names and then play with only girls names. We always allow fictional characters but we all have to know them. My kids have used Zelda (the aunt on Sabrina the Teenage Witch-or the video game character) and Queen Latifah (the voice of Ellie the elephant on Ice Age). We each have to take a letter and we go around starting in order. If someone wants to pass, they have to do 2 names of the next letter and you only get 1 pass per round of ABC's. We've also done songs, food, animals, books-whatever keeps them interested. We do several rounds until we're tired and keeping score is optional. But my kids know that it is more important to have fun playing the game than to win.
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