Stuck on a closed motorway with kids. Help!!

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Any ideas how to entertain 5 and 8 year olds when you're stuck in the car on a shut motorway? We've been here over an hour and no sign of movement yet. And we have no snacks. We've exhausted the usual I spy, and who can spot different coloured cars. We've finished our audio book, and they were getting sick of being quiet enough to hear it by the end anyway.

Obviously very glad we're stuck and not involved in the accident, but the kids are getting desperately bored. How can I entertain them? All ideas welcome!

(It's the M6 somewhere in Cheshire in case anybody's about to set off.)

Glad you're home, it's awful being stuck like that. Couple of suggestions for others or another time:

I went to market and bought .... work through the alphabet, you have to recite all the letters that have gone before then add something beginning with the next letter. (E.g 'I went to market and bought and apple'; ' I went to market and bought an apple and a banana'; and so on)

Start off a story. Everyone takes it in turns to add a sentence.

@MrBond

Charades? The licence plate game? Learn a simple acapella piece?

Sing alongs?

She's stuck on the motorway with two under nines, not the Tallis Scholars!

Glad you got home ok OP.

The MN Cancel the Cheque brigade are going to continue entertaining your DC until they are in their forties.

@LemonMeringueThreePointOneFour

I was thinking more along the lines of this, albeit with a more age-appropriate conclusion.

I keep a bag in the boot, with things we might need in some sort of "emergency"

Change of clothes for DC (many times he's needed the spare set we have taken with us and then fallen in a puddle/stream/sea again!)
Long life snacks (crisps, crackers, cereal bars etc.)
Drinks (tend to keep a bottle of flavoured water - more palatable a bit warm than plain water)
Nappies, wipes, nappy sacks
Blanket, hat, gloves, space blanket
Couple of books
Coats for both of us
Sun cream

And then if I'm travelling further afield, I'll take a power pack and phone charger, and the buggy with rain cover (so I at least have somewhere I can safely contain toddler DC in any weather, should we need to leave the car e.g. motorway breakdown)

I've been stuck way too many times - motorway crashes, stuck in snow, lost in the arse end of nowhere (literally, for about 3 hours!), broken down at night with 3% phone battery - and learnt from my mistakes! Fortunately not been stuck anywhere with DC yet, but confident I have everything I need should it happen! With careful packing, apart from the coats, it all fits in a tote bag sized bag that just lives in the boot.

I just had to google to check on the poor horse and it sounds like it will be ok - it was taken to an equine hospital for precautionary check.
No humans injured.
Glad op and kids are home.

Glad the horse is OK, and no injuries to anybody else involved.

DH went to talk to a truck driver a bit further forward at one point. Came back. "The horse has been put to sleep." Saw the look of horror on my face. "Maybe I should rephrase that. The horse has been sedated and is now asleep."