I need fun ideas for a long coach trip with no tech

[Funfortheroad]

Help please! DD (10) is going on a residential and the coach takes 4 hours (each way). They're not allowed tech or snacks. I think they might stick a DVD on in the coach and obviously they can chat but what else can I give her to amuse herself on such a long trip?? My parents used to give us sticker books and 'dress the dolly' activity books for the trip to grandparents but she's a bit old for that.

No tech no snacks sounds a bit mean, van't even listen to music.

Books and magazines are all very well but some children get motion sickness from that. What do the organisers suggest they do for 4 hours?

A book?

Tell the organisers you've heard that the children are planning on singing The Wheels on the Bus and If You're Happy and you Know It for the duration of the journey, there and back. They might relent

I took a group of kids on a similar journey. They mostly chatted on the way there and slept on the way back.

Other ideas... Rubix cube. Quiz book. Card games.

(Im presuming the tech ban is the organisers don't want to be responsible for everything...)

Book/magazine. A non-electronic game she can play with her neighbour, such as travel Connect 4. Non-electronic puzzles - slider puzzle, Rubik's Cube. An adult puzzle book, i.e. word searches, logic puzzles etc.

Also card games - top trumps, playing cards, card-based trivia quiz.

@TroysMammy

Tell the organisers you've heard that the children are planning on singing The Wheels on the Bus and If You're Happy and you Know It for the duration of the journey, there and back. They might relent

Haha! It could well happen. Rather them than me with a group of very bored kids.

Pack of cards to play with person next to them?
Word search book?
Play yellow car?
I presume no snacks is stop them making a mess but a 10y old should be capable of having some boiled sweets and eat them discreetly.

@BasicallyBookish

A book?

I was always told not to read in the car as it makes you travel sick, but I guess a phone/tablet would be just as likely to do the same thing. If we go away as a family we tend to do audiobooks, but I can't send her with a device that plays one.

One of those wooden puzzles where you have sticks roped together and you have to get the rings off.

I've got one someone gave me in 1995 and I still haven't solved it!

Ask your DD the Boswell riddle just before she sets off . It puzzled the whole of Mumsnet for about 2 years before it was finally solved incidentally on an unrelated thread.

Boswell has been solved?!?

Look out the window and think. The art of being able to sit quietly and just think/look out the window/talk to your neighbour is a really really useful skill in life. 4 hours is not actually that long a trip.

I'd imagine they will all just chat the whole time! What about a card game like Alias (describe the word on the card) Or other similar games where if a few cards go missing it dosent affect the game! Or one of those small "magic slate" things for drawing, hangman, tic tac toe etc?

Dobble? Top Trumps?

Boswell was solved on this thread @Aroundtheworldin80moves:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/4156434-This-puzzle-answer-is-ridiculous-right

Something like this to play with whoever she sits next to?

Pack of Top Trumps.

One of those small Trivial Pursuit triangles - there’s a Harry Potter one, for example.

4 hours of sitting quietly and looking out of the window is quite a big ask for a ten year old.
I think 4 hours is a long time on a coach. I would hope there's a stop at some point for snacks.

What does she normally do to entertain herself when tech is not availae and go from there I would.

Card game? Do kids still play top trumps? We'd play that for ages when I was that age.

I wouldn't worry though, give her a new book if she likes reading but all the kids will probably just entertain themselves quite easily. I remember doing a 13 hour coach trip as a 14 year old and everyone chatted, mucked about, watched the movies they put on. This was pre smart phones.