Excerpt: Lonely Planet's Travel with Children

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Exploring the great outdoors is easy (kids love to run and frolic after long journeys). Using simple games can help them to appreciate their surroundings even more or calm them down after too much running around.

TOUCHY FEELY TREE Walk a blindfolded player to a tree and let them explore it using only touch for a while. Then spin them around and lead them away from their tree. Removing the blindfold, ask the player to find their tree.

STATUES A good game to relax with. Move around until the caller says 'freeze', then stay still the longest to win. Another version involves players sneaking up behind the caller to steal a token (anything that's handy will do). Rather than call freeze, the caller turns and sees who is still moving. Anybody caught moving gets sent back to the start.

CLOUDS What do the clouds look like? Can you find a cloud that looks like: a person, your car, your pets, your breakfast?