Waiting Room
Activities for Waiting Room.
Waiting rooms are unpredictable — you do not know if it is five minutes or forty — so these activities start instantly and stop instantly, and none of them need anything you would have had to remember to bring.
Most are conversation games, spotting games and finger games. A few use whatever is to hand: a leaflet, a bag, a coat with buttons on it.
They are also chosen to be quiet enough for a room full of people who are not enjoying themselves, which rules out most of what a bored child would otherwise suggest.
Activities
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What to Actually Put in the Travel Bag
Several small things, handed out one at a time. That single rule matters more than anything you put in it.
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Make Up a Story With Three Things
A character, a place, and something going wrong. That is enough for almost any child to be away.
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Five Games for the Wait Before the Food
No bag, no crayons, nothing to drop on the floor. Five games that need only the two of you and a table.
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I Spy, But With Sounds
The same game you already know, played with the sound a word starts with instead of the letter. Needs nothing at all.