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Car Scavenger Hunt For Kids

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If you’re going on a long car journey or road trip with kids, here’s a free scavenger hunt list that will help keep them entertained.

It’s simple to play and doesn’t require any organizing, so that’s one less thing to have to prepare before your trip.

Here’s how to play it:

Car Scavenger Hunt For Kids

Resources

  • List of vehicles (see below)
  • Pens

Preparation

None

Instructions

Give each of your kids a copy of the list of cars and other vehicles. Explain that their task is to try to find as many of the different cars on the list as they can during the road trip.

Scoring Options

For trips with only one child in the car with you, this is a game they can try to complete by themselves by the end of the journey.

If you have two or more kids though, you can make it a little more competitive. There are a couple of ways it can be played with two+ players:

  1. First To Twenty – With this version, the first child to spot all 20 vehicles (or the most vehicles during the journey) is the winner
  2. Best Of – Write down the name / initials of the child who’s the first to find each item on the list. The winner’s therefore the person who finds the most cars, trucks, etc first

Tiebreaker

With both versions, there’s the potential for it to finish in a tie. To ensure that there’s a winner, also have them play a tiebreaker during the game.

While the kids are looking for the different cars, also have them look for a car that’s the same as the one you’re travelling in – same make, same model and same color.

If the regular car scavenger hunt finishes in a tie, the winner will be the one who was first to spot the similar car to yours.

List

Here’s a list of 20 different cars and other vehicles that the players have to find.

Beneath this is a free printable scavenger hunt list containing the same list – please feel free to print as many copies as you need. There are two copies of the list on each page to reduce the number of sheets you need to print.

  1. 2 door car
  2. 4 door car
  3. Minivan
  4. Hybrid vehicle
  5. Electric car
  6. Car trailer
  7. Semi-trailer truck
  8. Moving van
  9. SUV
  10. Truck
  11. Motorcycle
  12. Bus
  13. School bus
  14. Ambulance
  15. Fire truck
  16. Police car
  17. Convertible
  18. Van
  19. Car transporter truck
  20. RV

Printable Car Scavenger Hunt List For Kids

Prize

If you’d like to offer a prize to the winner of the game, here are a few suggestions of prizes you could give:

  • Younger kids – Melissa & Doug car carrier
  • Younger kids – Pull back cars
  • Any age – Hot Wheels gift pack
  • Any age – Morphibians Shark radio control car
  • Older kids – Lamborghini radio control car
  • Older kids – Ford Mustang radio control car

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