Smiling Violations

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What if your kids patrolled the highways and byways looking for drivers who hadn't brushed their teeth before getting behind the wheel? They'd probably have a blast!

Here's the next best thing, and your kids don't have to unbuckle their seat belts to do it. Just provide art supplies and paper, and suggest that they make up their own tickets listing silly fines and violations, like the following: fine for driving with a cluttered glove compartment—$5,000; sitting in a standing-only zone—$50; parking on top of a bus—pay seventeen doughnuts; fine for ruining rain drops with windshield wipers—$3 million.

You can also have your children make up some silly excuses to give to a trooper. "Gee, officer, I'm sorry, but the hamsters in the glove compartment were restless," or "But officer . . . I didn't know I couldn't park my car on the steps." Then there's always this one: "I'm sorry the car was shaking but we were all just laughing so hard!"

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© 2005 by Steve and Ruth Bennett. Excerpted from 365 Unplugged Family Fun Activities with permission of its publisher, Perseus Books Group, Inc. All rights reserved.

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