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Free Printable Travel Games for Kids

Staring down the barrel of a long car ride or plane trip with kids? These free printable travel games will help keep everyone busy and having fun. Find scavenger hunts, bingo, license plate game, hangman, word searches, connect the dots, and more.

US License Plate Game

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Make a goal of spotting the license plates of all 50 states and Washington DC. When you spot a plate, simply cross off the state on the map and on the alphabetized list.

Download Your Free Printable: US License Plate Game

Road Sign Scavenger Hunt

Want to keep your family busy during a road trip? See how many of these common road signs you can spot along your route. 

Download Your Free Printable: Road Sign Scavenger Hunt

Spot the Car

Going to be spending a lot of time in the car en route to your vacation? See how many of these popular car models you can spy along the way. 

Download Your Free Printable: Spot the Car Scavenger Hunt

This classic guessing game will never go out of style. Print out multiple sheets of this free Hangman game and keep the guessing going. Play with categories or with anything goes.

Download Your Free Printable: Hangman

Tic Tac Toe

The granddaddy of all pen-and-paper games is easy to learn. Kids of all ages love this classic game of Xs and Os.

Download Your Free Printable: Tic Tac Toe

Connect the Dots

This is a great strategy game for all ages. As you take turns connecting dots, the goal is to complete as many squares as you can and claim them with your initial.

Download Your Free Printable: Dot to Dot

Road Trip Scavenger Hunt

Keep your kids happy and engaged during your trip. See how many of these items you can spot along your route. 

Download Your Free Printable:  Road Trip Scavenger Hunt

Road Trip Word Search

Love word searches? Use your eagle eye to find these words seen on a road trip.

Download Your Free Printable: Road Trip Word Search

U.S. Road Trip Crossword Challenge

How well do you know top U.S. road trip terms? Feel free to ask Mom and Dad for help if you get stuck.

Download Your Free Printable: U.S. Road Trip Crossword Challenge

Road Trip I Spy

Taking a road trip? Print out this free I Spy game and start hunting for common logos you'll see along the way.

Download Your Free Printable:  Road Trip I Spy

Big Kid Highway Quest

Here's something more challenging for big kids. Print out this free highway quest and start hunting for these harder-to-find things you'll see on the road.

Download Your Free Printable: Big Kid Highway Quest

License Plate Coloring Game

Color your way to all 50 states. When you spot a license plate, color in the state on the map and cross it off the alphabetized list.

Download Your Free Printable: License Plate Coloring Game

Play this time-tested strategy game where the goal is to sink your enemy's war ships. 

Brush up on Battleship rules.

Download Your Free Printable: Battleship

Bottlecap Checkers

Clip this sheet to a clipboard and you can play checkers on the road. Don't have bottlecaps? Try playing this old-school favorite with coins, buttons, or different colored Post-It notes.

Download Your Free Printable: Bottlecap Checkers

Cootie Catcher

Generations of kids have had fun with these fun fortune tellers. Kids can ask Mom or Dad to help folding them.

Download Your Free Printable: Cootie Catcher

Alphabet Game

Find an item that begins with every letter of the alphabet. First person to complete the list wins.

Download Your Free Printable: Alphabet Game

I Spy Car Checklist

Try to spy every car logo on the list and mark each find with a checkmark.

Download Your Free Printable: I Spy Car Checklist

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Our last road trip activities for kids post has been read more than 50,000 times! And it’s been shared more than 8,000 times.  Wow – people really liked our ideas! It was full of the ideas we came up with to survive travelling with kids on a long road trip.  I’ve got a new tool in my family travel arsenal: Road Trip Printables!

Our last real road trip was 5 years ago and as we plan our next long road trip I’m happy to reread the former one and remember the tips!  

I don’t know how I forgot some of them – I’m adding aluminum foil to my list right now. 😜

This year our kids will be older: 11 and 13.  We expect our ride to be smoother than last time – for one they’ve both got bigger bladder capacity now.   (This time I don’t expect our son to need to publicly urinate in front of state troopers .)

But this time around we are spending more total hours in the car travelling from Ontario to Calgary, Alberta and back.  Dang, Ontario is big – it’s going to take two days just to get to the border from home!

We need some new ideas to keep our family amused during these extra long hours in the car.

I decided to find a whole bunch of free printable road trip car games and make a huge folder of them to spread out over the drive.  

I plan to also bring some plastic sheet protectors and low odor dry erase markers to reuse the best games.  ‘Cause I ain’t bringing a printer on this trip with us.

It would seem like a waste to just amass such a great list for ourselves when we can share them all with you!   So here’s a list of 25+ great free road trip printables – games worth printing for your long drive ahead.

Also, check out our kid-approved list of more  family fun road trip activities and games !

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15 Printable Road Trip Activities & Travel Games

By: Author Jacquie Fisher

Posted on Published: December 3, 2021

Categories Travel Fun

The *NEW* printables are here — road trip activities and travel games for kids and tweens !

Summer has finally arrived and you know that that means?

It’s Road Trip Season!!

Yes, that’s totally a thing 😉

We LOVE to get out and explore A LOT so keeping kids busy en route with printable road trip games & activities is a must!

And now we’ve pulled them all together for you in one AMAZING new printable set!

Whether you’re getting ready for your first car trip or are a road trippin’ pro, take a peek at these AWESOME printable games, activities and planning pages that will keep kids busy and make planning your next car trip a breeze!

15 Road Trip Activities and Games (printables!)

We really love to travel a lot with our family, especially by car.

If you’re read our 50 Road Trip Hacks & Tips ,  you’ll know that the one thing I highly recommend is bringing along some fun activities that are sure to keep kids & tweens occupied!

So our *newest* set of printables will quickly help you keep the kids busy with LOTS of games, activities & challenges!

• Fun activities for kids to play on their own and also ones for families to play together.
• Traditional games like I-Spy and “Would you rather…” questions
• And Unique activities like the Road Trip Challenge & “Road Trip Bucks” Incentive system which can ONLY be found in this Travel Pack!

Plus we’ve included some great printable resources to help you save time while planning your trip too!

The Road Trip Activities Pack includes 36 printable pages:

• an 8-page Road Trip Travel Journal,
• 10 Fun games & activities like I-Spy, Scavenger Hunt, “Would You Rather…” questions & MORE!
• PLUS the “Road Trip Bucks: Rewards for Good Behavior” System (this is PURE gold for inspiring positive behavior on the trip!)
• And planning pages for adults: a Road Trip checklist & “What to Pack” planner too!

Printable Travel Activities & Games for Kids and Tweens

The pack includes independent travel activities and games for kids & tweens :

• An 8-page Road Trip Travel Journal
• a Road Trip Challenge game
• (2) Road Trip I Spy Game (a color & a black/white version that doubles as a coloring page)
• a Road Trip ABC Scavenger Hunt
• a Doodle Page
• “How Many Words Can You Make”? Activity
• and an Autograph Page (for fun people you meet on the trip!)

Get the Road Trip Activities Pack NOW!

Road Trip Challenge: A Travel Scavenger Hunt

One of my FAVORITE activities in the pack is the Road Trip Challenge!

It’s part scavenger hunt, part building life skills and part learning!!

Kids need to complete various items during the trip —

• easy activities such as “find a license plate from a state that’s not where you live”
• life skills like “help pack the car for the trip!”
• learning activities such as calculating how many miles you’ll drive on the trip
• and items that keep them searching — “find a car with a dog in it!”

Print the challenge off for each kid traveling with you and have a friendly competition to see who can check off the most items before you get to your destination 😉

Not only does it keep kids occupied throughout the whole trip, it’s also a wonderful way to get them to chip in and help, be more observant and document their travels.

Printable Road Trip Journal for Kids & Tweens

This is an AWESOME way to make & record memories while you travel The 8-page Road Trip Journal is so colorful and invites kids & tweens can document their trip (and squeeze in a little writing during the summer months too 😉

And we’ve also included some super fun Signature Boxes with the pack – one for all family members to sign so you have a handwritten memory of who traveled with you and the other is an ‘autograph’ page for any else that you meet during your trip!

Road Trip Games for Families to Play Together

This packet includes the following road trip games for kids and adults to enjoy:

• Once Upon a Car Ride Counting Game
• “Would You Rather…” Road Trip edition
• “What’s the First thing you should do…?” Questions
• and the “How Many Words Can You Make”? Activity is also a fun one for all ages!

 Each of these games will inspire some fun conversations and help families to get to know one another during the long ride. 

They’re also great for enhancing memory & communication skills too!

Printable Road Trip Planners

Also included are additional resources for adults planning the trip:

• a Road Trip checklist
• a “What to Pack” Trip planning printable
• and the Road Trip Incentive Money along with Spend & Earn Charts

The Road Trip Checklist will help you easily prepare for your next family car trip! It includes what to do to get the car ready for your trip, must-have tech items and tips for organizing the car to be sure everyone has their own space!

The Trip Planning & Packing List is a great tool to help you quickly know what items you’ll need to pack based on what activities you’ll do on your trip.  Use it to create a master packing list of clothes, shoes, gear and other must-have necessities.

Road Trip Rewards & Play Travel Money

And I’m saving the best for last — the “ Road Trip Bucks: Travel Incentives for Good Behavior” system !!

Seriously, this is so EASY to do on the trip and an AWESOME way to inspire kids to help out, find quiet activities to do and not constantly ask to be using tech!

The goal of Road Trip Bucks is to give kids options for positive behaviors while traveling, such as helping to keep the car clean, playing a game with siblings, reading a book, etc.

You choose what behaviors will earn Road Trip Bucks & how the earned play money is spent during your trip.

We’ve included ALL the following items in the printable Road Trip Activities Pack to help you get started:

• Road Trip Bucks (3 pages of travel-themed play money to print & use)
• A sample chart listing various “Activities” kids can do to earn Road Trip money
• A blank “How to Earn Road Trip Bucks” chart you can fill in with your own activities & ideas
• A list of rewards kids can buy with their Road Trip bucks
• And a blank “How to Spend Road Trip Bucks” chart that you can tailor with your own incentives!

YES!! I want the Road Trip Activities Pack!!

Just print off the Road Trip money, fill in your own activities & earning ideas and hang the charts in the car when you start your trip!

I like to hand out money as it’s earned – each child gets their own envelope so they can keep track of their money on the trip.  BONUS:  this is also a great math activity while traveling 😉

While we’ve included travel-themed activities for our examples, you can also expand on those options too.

Here are a few other ideas you might include as “Activities Kids Can Do”:

• Help get the dog/cat ready before the trip
• Pack your own backpack for the trip
• Follow our route on a map while we drive
• Finish your summer reading assignment
• Learn about places we’ll visit on the trip

After earning all that money, kids can’t wait to spend it!

I like to be sure kids are really ‘earning’ their reward so I usually price the rewards at $2 – $10 which means they’ll need to complete at least a few of the activities to earn enough to spend their money.

A few ideas of rewards that can be offered include:

• 30 minutes of tech time
• Money to buy souvenirs
• or be the first to choose your bed when we get there (I found out this is a pretty big incentive for tweens & teens!)

Again, add in your own incentives along with purchase amounts for your trip.  A few other ideas could be:

• Choose an attraction to visit on our trip
• Choose what snack we’ll have after dinner (you can give them choices like ice cream, s’mores, etc)
• or even “Ride in the front seat for the next leg of the trip” if you have tweens & teens who would enjoy that privilege.

Grab your pack & spend less time planning and more time ENJOYING your trip!

Wishing you Safe Travels!

xo ~ Jacquie

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Ella & I love road tripping and while sharing our Best Tips for an Awesome Family Road Trip , I thought I should put together a list of some of our favorite free printable road trip games !

Free Printable Travel Games for Kids

Really, the majority of printable activities can be done on a road trip, but sometimes it’s fun to grab some printables that specifically relate to your road trip or give unique activities that can only be done in the car (like license plate games).

I almost always laminate our printables for repeated use, but you can also use a page protector for a quick alternative.

Clipboards or portable lap desks are great for letting kids draw or play these games on-the-go. We love our cheap plastic lap desk – it has compartments that can store markers, craft supplies, additional notebooks or games, etc. We got ours at Walmart or Michaels, but you can also grab similar versions online .

Another awesome way to pass the time during your road trip is our Road Trip Chain hack:

Printable Road Trip Games

1. I love these easy Do-a-Dot Travel Printables from Moms & Crafters – there are 5 of them that help practice color matching and fine motor coordination in little ones!

2. These Road Trip Drawing Prompts from Picklebums are a fun way to boost creativity during a long trip.

3. Itsy Bitsy Fun has a cute  transportation memory game you can print from home.

4. This Road Trip Printable Pack from Playdough to Plato has a few different options including a graphing game!

5. Of course, our Word Battelship Printable is a favorite on our road trips! (Click here to download!)

6. We also have an ABC “Scavenger Hunt”-style Printable Road Trip Game. (Click here to download!)

7. No printer needed for this quick Alphabet Tic Tac Toe from The Letters of Literacy.

8. If you’re worried you haven’t packed enough printables, a whiteboard is a great idea from the OT Toolbox!

9. And Next Comes L has so many of these wonderful I Spy printables, like this Watermelon I Spy version .

10. Grab a shoelace and print off this Shoe Lace Tying Printable for some practical life practice on-the-go.

Printable Travel Games for Kids

11. Mum in the Madhouse shares a variety of free car printables including classics and one perfect for the budding car enthusiast – I Spy for Different Car Models ! (I might just print that one off for my dad the next time he joins us!)

12. For American road trips, this License Plate Game from Makeovers & Motherhood is a great way to learn geography and stay entertained!

13. Road Trip Pictionary from Lalymom lets pre-writers get in on the fun with some great drawings of their trip!

14. These Bingo Road Trip Printables from Housing a Forest are completely black and white which I like for saving colored ink and also the kids can add coloring them in as one activity!

15. I am loving this Busy Book for Travel (with a quick tutorial for turning any notebook into a travelling busy book!) from Powerful Mothering.

16. Two printables in one with this Car Bingo Game – one for specific car models and another for general road signs/objects from That’s What Che Said. (Plus a bonus blank bingo card for personalizing your own!)

17. Fun Learning Ideas has sooo many great printables, like this Find the Numbers Pet Game .

18. Another fun one from Fun Learning Ideas, this Pattern Making Race  requires pattern blocks which you can keep in a cup or ziplock bag.

19. If your trip involves a plane ride, this Airplane Scavenger Hunt from Mama, Papa, Bubba is a great find!

20. And if your trip involves a stop in a hotel, grab this Hotel Scavenger Hunt from Moms & Munchkins!

21. Here is an entire folder set of printables from Poofy Cheeks!

22. This  collection of 4 Road Trip Printables  from In the Playroom includes a game of Traffic Jam, Car Bingo, Car Search and the Alphabet Game.

If you’re planning a road trip of your own, be sure to grab our free road trip planning printables here.

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What a great collection of road trip friendly games for keeping everyone happy.

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Why do you laminate your games?

Hi Yogid, I laminate them for a few reasons. It makes the games more sturdy for travelling and also waterproof if anyone spills their drink on the game. Also, if it’s a game that we can use a marker on, it allows us to re-use that game over and over again with a simple wipe clean.

Thanks for the tips can’t wait for our first family roadtrip

I hope you have an amazing first family road trip!

My kids loved the battleship game. Thanks for sharing!

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Printable Road Trip Games for Kids

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Are you getting ready to hit the road for your family vacation, or traveling with kids to visit family over the holidays? Are you nervous about how you’ll entertain the kids for endless hours in the car, and avoid the dreaded “are we nearly there yet?” over and over again! Printable Road Trip Games are an inexpensive way to engage your children in fun activities and help pass the hours on your next family trip.

Therefore, we have created a selection of FREE Printable Road Trip Games , which are tried and tested by kids, to provide hours of entertainment on your family travels. Including Road Sign Scavenger Hunt, Coloring Page, Tic Tac Toe, Word Search, License Plate Search Game – and our favorite – Road Trip Bingo. So, read on to download and learn more details about each game, plus how to make your own DIY Road Trip Games Kit.

Furthermore, to help with planning your next family road trip make sure to read our post about how to Simplify a Road Trip with Kids before you next hit the road.

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Road Sign Scavenger Hunt

If you’re heading on a road trip and looking for something to keep your kids busy and entertained, this is a great option. Parents can play it, too!

Print several copies of the Road Sign Scavenger Hunt and discover how many you can spot along the way. The first person to find all of the road signs is the winner of the game.

For the printable Road Sign Scavenger Hunt

Road Trip Truck Coloring Page

What’s in the Truck? Grad a crayon or a washable marker and use your imagination to draw what you think the truck is carrying. This printable coloring sheet is perfect for toddler and preschool-age children.

To print the Road Trip Truck Coloring Page

Road Trip tic-tac-toe

Road Trip tic tac toe is a game for two players, X and O, who take turns marking the grid. The player who succeeds in placing three of their marks in a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal row is the winner.

For the printable Road Trip Tic Tac Toe

Road Trip Word Search

Getting ready for a family vacation? Need something to occupy the kids while you travel? Think all things travel related. Use this printable travel games puzzle to find and mark all the words hidden inside the grid.

For the printable Road Trip Word Search

License Plate Search Game

Keep the kids entertained while you’re traveling across the United States. See how many different license plates you can find on your trip and check them off your list.

This is a check-off list with all 50 states that you can use to play the License Plate Search Game on car trips or road trips. Spot the plate and color the state.

For the printable License Plate Search Game

Printable Road Trip Bingo

So, are you wondering how to entertain the kids while you’re driving on your family vacation? This printable road trip game is our family favorite!

As you drive down the road kids will pay attention to their surroundings as they try to spot and mark off items on their road trip bingo card. This can be played with little kids who need to get five in a row to win bingo. Or with older kids who can go for a blackout, where they have to get everything on the board. That could take a while!

We have created 4 Road Trip Bingo cards for plenty of variation. You can print multiple game cards and have kids mark them with a crayon or pen as they spot things. Or if you prefer to re-use the game boards then insert each card in to a plastic sheet protector and mark with a dry erase pen. See details below about how to make your own DIY printable road trip games kit.

For all 4 versions of Printable Road Trip Bingo

For a packet with ALL the printable road trip games listed above

Printable Travel Games For Kids – The Ultimate Activity Pack (30 Pages)

Our Printable Road Trip Games have become so popular that we decided to create The Ultimate Activity Pack . The 30 printable pages include a variety of travel-themed games, activities, and more for children age 3 plus (and even the adults will want to join in too).

These Printable Travel Games For Kids are an inexpensive way to engage your children in a wide selection of fun activities and help pass the hours on your next family trip. And, the added bonus of avoiding screen time for kids!

Travel Tray for Road Trip Games

We like to use our BE Family Travel Tray on a road trip with printable games for kids. The car seat travel tray sits in the child’s lap and provides a flat, firm surface for the child to play, draw, or work on their printable road trip games. This is also a great place to hold a water bottle or eat a snack. The multi functional capabilities of the BE Family Travel Tray  will help end the “are we nearly there yet” boredom.

DIY Road Trip Games Kit

Also, you can print the road trip games and use them with a regular pen, crayon or marker. Or if you prefer to re-use your printable road trip games then you can make your own DIY Kit using the following supplies.

Supplies for DIY Road Trip Games Kit:

• Storage Clipboard
• Expo Click Dry Erase Marker
• Sheet Protectors

Printable Road Trip Games

Description of how to make a Printable Road Trip Games Kit:

• Print the road trip games, and gather the supplies listed above.
• Cut approximately 24″ length of string.
• Using the tape, attach one end of the string to the Expo Dry Erase Marker, trim any excess string with scissors.
• Then tie a triple knot to attach the other end of the string to the metal clip on the clipboard, and trim any excess string with scissors.
• Insert each printed road trip game into a clear sheet protector.
• Put the stack of sheet protectors, with printable games, on the clipboard ready to use on your next family road trip. If you have a storage clipboard that opens then you can store the extra sheets inside.
• Finally, use a baby wipe or damp paper towel to wipe clean the sheet protectors and then reuse the printable games.

Dry Erase Marker attached with tape and tied onto clipboard

Carry extra printable road trip games inside storage clipboard

The Best Printable Games for a Family Road Trip

These printable road trip games will come in handy for your next family vacation. Printable games can be used for children of different ages, especially as siblings can compete against each other and their parent(s) to win! These printable travel games will help keep your children entertained and prevent boredom from hours in the car as your family hits the road for vacation.

Check out our  post about the  best family travel games  to find games to entertain the kids on your next family vacation.

Finally, we would love to hear about your favorite family road trip games, or if you have other printable games for kids that we could add to this collection and share with other parents.

And remember, let’s BE Family so you can enjoy the journey. Until next time, 💕💖 Ruth

BE Family Travel

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Ruth Hutchins grew up in England and now lives in North Carolina with her husband, Doug, and their two young daughters. They always loved to travel, but once having children everything changed because family travel is more complicated. Traveling with a baby may feel overwhelming to new parents. Travel with a toddler can really test your patience, and traveling with kids can lead to utter chaos. However, travel with your little ones doesn’t have to be that stressful or exhausting. On the BE Family Travel blog Ruth shares her parenting wins, and even epic failures about traveling with kids. She provides resources to help you feel empowered to plan a family vacation and travel with your children.

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Free Printable Games and Puzzles for Travel, Road Trips and Home

By: Author Amar Hussain

Posted on Last updated: June 25, 2022

It can be a challenge to keep your little ones entertained for long periods of time, especially during long road trips or flights.

Thankfully there are many games and puzzles to keep their brains occupied while also exercising their logic and problem solving skills.

We’ve created a series of printable games and puzzles which are completely free for you and your children to enjoy.

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Word Search

• Battleships

Magic Squares

Word scramble.

• Tic Tac Toe

Dots to Square

• Memory Game
• Coloring Sheet

Spot the Cars

Final thoughts.

Who doesn’t love a maze?! Our very on Nerd Bear is stuck in the center and needs rescuing. We have several circular and triangle mazes which are fun and free. Print them off and find Nerd Bear!

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The classic word search is a firm favorite to pass the time at home or on a journey.

We have several themed word searches for you to print and they range in difficult from simple 8×8 sized word searches to harder 16×16 for older kids and even adults.

Easy 8×8

• Farm Animals

Medium 12×12

• Disney Princesses

Hard 16×16

• Harry Potter

There’s something so satisfying and yet saddening about saying “you sank my battleship!” Best of all you don’t need the physical board game to play this classic .

Using just the free printable and a pen you can play this as much as you like by marking out your own fleet and using the grid references to target your enemy.

This is a great test for both kids and adults alike to use their math skills to solve these magic squares.

You have to fill in the squares so that each column, row, and diagonal all equal the sum indicated for each puzzle. You best get your thinking caps on!

• Magic Numbers
• Magic Numbers – Answers

You can’t open a newspaper or magazine these days without coming across a Sudoku puzzle.

The 9×9 Sudoku puzzles may be a bit too challenging for younger kids so here we have easier 4×4, and slightly harder 6×6 sized Sudoku puzzles.

• Sudoku 4×4
• Sudoku 6×6

Another puzzle game to keep your brain active, these themed printable sheets will have you unscrambling the mess to find the real words.

• Periodic Table
• U.S. States

Take turns putting X and O’s in each space until you get three in a row either across, down, or diagonally.

For added fun you can play this game at speed and watch as you, or your opponent, makes silly mistakes.

This very simple game involves taking it in turns to draw lines between dots with the goal of creating squares.

You can be strategic and finish your opponents squares but watch out as they may do the same to you.

As you complete squares put your letter (A or B) into the box. The winner is the person with the most squares. Good luck!

• Dots to Squares

These printable hangman sheets means that kids and adults can play several rounds of this game.

It’s easy to see where you are by crossing off letters of the alphabet as you go. Can you guess the word before the end?

This game can be played by yourself or against friends. Look at the pictures below for one minute and then hide it. Then try and draw as many of them as you can from memory.

You then have 5 minutes to draw as many of them as you can. See how many you can get and beat your friends or family!

This is such a great game as a cognitive challenge and for enhancing memory in children.

Coloring has always been a popular pastime and even gaining popularity with adults. What better way to pass the time than coloring in our very own Nerd Bear!

Hint: he is a red bear but feel free to change him if you think you have a better color in mind.

This classic road trip game will keep your keys alert and interested as they gaze out the window trying to spot these cars.

The cars are the most popular brands and models sold in the U.S. so for any long road trip you should be able to spot all of them. Keep your eyes peeled!

• Spot The Cars

With long journeys or time at home it can be a challenge to keep kids entertained.

These free printable travel games and puzzles will be sure to kill many hours and keep your children happy, amused, and challenged.

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20+ Free Printable Road Trip Activities and Games for Kids

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Road trip season is upon us! In my last road trip post, I shared Genius Road Trip Hacks for Your Next Family Vacation .  One boredom buster that I ALWAYS make sure I pack before a road trip is a collection of printable activity pages for the kiddos.  I swing by the dollar store and get each kid a clipboard.  Then I dig a new pack of crayons and colored pencils out of my school supply surplus for each kid.  I cruise around the internet and print some coloring pages and other games and activities for them to work on as we drive.

Free Printable Road Trip Activities and Games

Make a Road Trip Travel Journal!  Get a binder and a pencil pouch to store all of these great printable activities.  Bonus – the binder doubles as a lap desk in the car!

Check out these Free Printable Road Trip Activities and Games!

Print out this  Printable Vacation Journal   for the kids to write and draw about their trip highlights!

Printable Road Trip Game – 50 Conversation Starters from Mama Cheaps (Store these in your car!  They are not just handy for road trips, but also for car line etc.)

These Road Trip Goodie Bags make GREAT positive reinforcements and boredom busters!

Road Trip Scavenger Hunt from Mama Cheaps

P rintable License Plate Printable Activity from Mama Cheaps

Free Printable Camping Journal for Kids from Glamper Life

Free Printable Camping Coloring Pages from Glamper Life

Printable National Parks Bucket List for Kids from Glamper Life

License Plate Road Trip Game from iMom

Restaurant I Spy from 3 Boys and a Dog

Alphabet Pictionary from Lalymom

Road Trip Drawing Prompts from Picklebums

Road Trip License Plate Map from Happiness is Homemade

Disney Would You Rather Game from Get Away Today

If you’re going camping, check out our Camping I Spy Game

Kids can earn these Adventure Bucks for good behavior during long trips.  Then they can trade them in for small rewards of YOUR choosing.

Construction Vehicle I Spy from Craftulate

Word Search from I Heart Naptime

Printable Farm and Dinosaur Playmats from Free Time Frolics

Free Printable Vacation Memories Journal from Sunny Day Family

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Best Road Trip Games for Young Kids: 15+ Free Printables

Need free printables to keep young kids busy on a family road trip? Me, too! Here are my favorite road trip games for kids aged three to about eight.

I’m planning a four-day cross-Canada road trip with three kids between three and seven. On my own. No tablets or DVD players. Yikes! My husband will be driving the moving van, so entertainment is solely up to me. How to stay sane?

Well, I found some GREAT free printables for family road trips online. Many are for kids older than mine, so it took some sifting. 

But, wow! There are some INCREDIBLE free road trip activities out there. Here I share my favorites with you.

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How to use these free printable road trip games for young kids:

• Print them out and put them into a binder. This gives your child a portable desk, AND keeps everything together and tidy. 
• Slip them into sheet protectors , where it makes sense. This is an easy and cheap way to make them reusable. 
• Add a zippered pouch with crayons, washable markers and dry erase markers. 

And wa-la! Hours of quiet time. (Here’s to hoping!)

1. Road Trip Banner

But FIRST! Pinterest is FULL of fun ideas for family road trips, and this is one of my favorites. 

A simple, visual way to “map out” your road trip for your young kids is to string it up in your car! Use string, yarn or even gold duck tape as the road, like Grey House Harbor . Include your overnight stops. Interesting landmarks you’ll see along the way. Planned stops. And then move your car along as you go.

I’m guessing my kids will still ask, “Are we there yet” a million times. But at least I have something to point to. And it’s fun for me, too!

Use my simple Road Trip Banner Printable to create your own!

2. Free COLORING MAPS Printables for Family Road Trips

For simple maps young kids can color, head to Where Exactly Maps . Where Exactly Maps provides free printable map coloring sheets perfect for inspiring your little travel wanderer.

Maps include United States, Canada, Europe, United Kingdom, North East Asia, Africa and South America. Each one has two versions: simple, with only the country name, and complete with province/state names. 

While there, also check out the tectonic plates coloring sheet and labeling printable! A great road trip printable for your little geologist. Can work for both older and younger kids.

3. Road Trip COLORING PAGES for Young Kids

I love the coloring pages from Doodle Art Alley . They have a fantastic variety, and appropriate for various ages and skill levels. Countries and states or provinces. National parks. Transportation. Plus so many other fun ideas, like seasons, nature, animals and princesses.  

Two other great kids coloring pages for family road trips are:

• Transportation Color By Number Printables from Captain Coloring Book. Includes a ship, plane and helicopter. These are great for preschoolers because they’re color-coded.
• Vacation Color By Number Printables from All Kids Network. A huge variety, including beach, ice cream and transportation printables. These simple coloring pages have the color words for the legend so they’re great for early readers. 

4. TRAVEL BINGO Free Printables Game for Family Road Trips

There are a LOT of travel bingo printables out there. Most are best for USA-specific road trips, with license plates, flags, signs and fast food restaurants only found there.

Here are my two favorite travel bingo printables for kids that work for pretty much any road trip location:

• Meander and Coast : Super cute, has a good variety of things and is mostly country-generic. The only thing is the American flag, which isn’t a big deal to me.
• Stuffed Suitcase : A fun road trip games printables pack, including four versions of travel bingo and calling cards. Because more than one kid means you need more than one version, of course! I also love the “I Spy” game. The rest of the pack is fantastic for older kids.

Open to buying an all-in-one road trip printables bundle? Check out this one from BE Family Travel on Etsy.

5. Easy Road Trip WORD SEARCHES for Young Kids

I’m a big fan of word searches. When I was young, my mom had search races with me and let me win sometimes! Good memories. And they’re great for early readers. So long as they’re easy. 

Here are some great easy road trip word search printables:

• Easy Summer Word Search from Puzzles to Print. An easy, friendly word search with eight words. The longest is only six letters. 
• Let’s Take a Trip Word Search from Word Game World. More challenging, with 20 words. Most words are short. The longest is sunglasses. 
• Short Vowel Word Search from Teachers Pay Teachers. This word search isn’t specifically about road trips or travel, but it’ll work! It’s perfect for early readers to build confidence and have fun coloring, too.

For a small cost, you might just want to purchase this easy road trip package from Little Wiggles Design on Etsy. It’s fantastic for ages 3 to 5.

6. “I SPY” Road Trip Games for Young Kids

A fantastic resource for “I Spy” free printables is Paper Trail Design . They’re the perfect balance of easy AND challenging for young kids. How is that possible, you ask? Well, take a look! 

The images are simple, but of various sizes. Quantities are all below 10, but together sure add up. You have plenty of fun themes to choose from, like ice cream, mermaids and Star Wars. Or classic options, like transportation, camping, road trip, animals and weather. 

Other great “I Spy” printable games for road trips include Outdoor Adventure and Summer Fun from Picklebums.

What should they pack in their suitcase, carry-on or road trip bag? Check out this Kids Vacation Packing List . 

7. “I SPY ” RACE Game Printables for Family Road Trips

A fun and easy twist on the “I Spy” road trip game is Awesome Alphabet Road Trip I Spy Printable from Sunny Day Family. It’s cute, and it’ll take early readers a while to get to Z! 

For early readers, they can simply cross off the letter when they see it. Stronger readers and writers can write out the word or license plate combo they saw.

8. Simple Road Trip SCAVENGER HUNT Printable Games for Young Kids

There are a lot of road trip scavenger hunt printables out there. Similar to travel bingo printables, I found many had USA-specific items that wouldn’t work that great for my young kids on a cross-Canada road trip.

But I DID find a couple of great generic ones! My favorite is from Make and Takes (illustrated by Juliann Law ). The items on the list can be found on any road trip. Like power lines. Birds. Bike. And the pencil-sketch style of these drawings is beautiful. I I hope they inspire my own little artists! 

Another road trip scavenger hunt printable I love is this car color search from Productive Pete . A simple concept, perfect for building confidence and working up to the tougher ones!

9. DRAWING PROMPTS Printables for Family Road Trips

My five and seven year olds LOVE drawing. We go through SO. MUCH. PAPER! So, these free drawing printables from Picklebums are perfect for young family road trips.

My favorite free printables for road trips include:

• Road Trip prompts, like “what’s in the truck” and “where does the road go.” The last one is SO Mary Poppins!
• Make a Face is a great reusable drawing prompt. Put it in a sheet protector to use with dry erase markers. I can hear the laughter!
• Drawing Challenge Cards is excellent for early readers. Plenty of drawing prompts for hours of entertainment. You could also pull a card out whenever they get bored. 

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10. Road Trip DICE DRAWING Games for Young Kids

During online learning, my daughter’s kindergarten teacher had them play this roll-a-monster game from Embracing Motherhood. It’s been SUCH a hit in our household! I bought large dice for each of my kids. And wa-la! A perfect free printables road trip game for young kids.

Here are my favorite roll-and-draw free printables for young kids:

• Roll-a-butterfly from Printoteka. Because butterflies are awesome.
• Roll-a-monster (3 options) available on ARTimus Prime.
• Drawing games from Drawing How to Draw, including roll-a-face and roll-a-landscape.

Put them to work AND get them excited for your family trip! Check out this Kids Packing List with Pictures . Even preschoolers can use it!

11. PUPPET THEATER Road Trip Activities for Young Kids

My goodness, there are SO many super cute finger puppet printables on Pinterest! If your kids are into animals, fairies, princesses, or robots, just pick your favorites! I’ll prepare a set for my 2 year old, and let my oldest two color and cut out their own. 

Here are three of my favorite finger puppet free printables for family road trips:

• Animal Finger Puppets from Highlights. Print in color, cut out and tape into rings. As easy as you get!
• Farm Animal Finger Puppets from Arty Crafty Kids. Kids can color before cutting and taping into puppets.
• Noah’s Ark Animal Finger Puppets from The Confident Journal. No taping involved, but you may want to pre-cut the finger holes. 

If you’re open to paying a small amount, you really should check out the finger puppets from Pukaka on Etsy. They’re SO cute! Family puppets. Monsters and aliens. Monkeys and circus performers. And characters from your favorite kids book.

Note: I highly recommend printing at least two copies per child. Even if you print onto cardstock, I can see these ripping pretty quickly. And then there’d be tears. SO. MANY. TEARS. Consider yourself warned!

12. GLASSES Printables for Family Road Trips

Check out these free printable glasses from Picklebums. I LOVE this idea for dressing up and making the family road trip extra exciting. Combine them with a crown , and you’re all set.

13. Road Trip MAZE Printables for Young Kids

Mazes can be a great way for young kids to pass the time on a road trip. Choose from many different themes that your kids are interested in on Pinterest. 

Here are my favorite mazes for family road trips:

• Vehicle mazes and country mazes from Muse Printables. This huge collection of easy mazes is perfect for family road trips.
• Seasonal Mazes from Superstar Worksheets. Beautiful free printables to celebrate the changing of seasons.
• Transportation mazes from Emma Pelling at Smiling Art. Elegant and unique. My seven and five year olds will love coloring them in. Plus the counting challenge, too.

14. PLAYDOUGH MATS Free Printables for Family Road Trips

Check out these playdough mats from Picklebums. Slide these into sheet protectors and you have perfect playdough entertainment for a family road trip. Add a pitstop challenge! Have them find leaves, flowers and pebbles to use in their creations. 

My favorite free playdough mat printables for road trips include the bugs and pirates sheets. You can also support this shop by paying a nominal amount for the city playdough mat.

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15. TRAVEL KIT of Free Road Trip Games for Kids

Here’s one of my favorite travel activity packs for young kids, offered free from Somewhat Simple . It has a few special gems that set it apart.

Like the Made You Laugh jokes, which my daughters will absolutely LOVE. The color Slug Bug travel game, which is simple enough for all three of my young kids to play. And the Do Not Open Until tags, which are perfect for building fun and anticipation along the way. Think: Bubbles for a playground stop and glow wands when it gets dark!

16. TRAVEL JOURNAL Free Printables for Young Kids

Keeping a travel journal is SUCH a great habit to teach kids. On my first solo trip, my mom gave me a journal. And I’ve been keeping them and re-living my travels from them ever since!

The style of travel journal for young kids will obviously be different from older kids. Since my kids are new to writing and practicing their sounding skills, I want a travel journal with a blend of writing and drawing. 

Here are my favorite FREE road trip journals for young kids:

• Travel Journal Printable by Dover Publishing. Simple writing prompts with images for weather and rating. 
• My Vacation Printable by Five Marigolds. Cute and friendly style, with simple writing prompts and a drawing section.
• Travel Journal Template by Kids Travel Books. A cute 26-page, A to Z kids travel journal with writing and drawing prompts. Some pages are best for international travel but most work for any type of trip. 

In the end, I had a specific vision for a kids travel journal to engage my early readers, and couldn’t find it. So, I built it myself. If you’re open to a small purchase, check out our Kids Travel Journal Printable for Early Readers .

What are your favorite road trip printables for young kids? Any tips for the rest of us? Share in the comments below!

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On long road trips, the most difficult thing is to keep kids busy and entertained. Today I am sharing 15 Road Trip Games Printables and Ideas for Kids that you can play in the car on a road trip with your whole family. There are 7 games that you can play without any pen pencils or paper and there are 8 Free printable travel and road trip games. You need to print the games before the road trip and also need to keep some pens and pencils to write with. These games are suitable for the whole family and kids will surely enjoy them.

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1. Blind Distance

How to Play The game involves choosing an object in the distance and announcing it. Once the object is announced, all players close their eyes and wait for the car to reach the object. At that point, each player will call out “Now!” without revealing whether or not the car has reached the object. This will allow other players to continue guessing. Once all players have had a turn guessing and have opened their eyes, the driver will decide who the winner is. The game continues with either the driver or the winner of the last round choosing a new object. Examples Lake Statue Post Office Fast Food Restaurant

“I Spy” is a classic game that can be played in the car or any other place. How to Play The first player selects an object they can see without revealing what it is to others. Then, they say the famous phrase, “I Spy With My Little Eye something beginning with…” and mention the first letter of the object’s name. For instance, if the chosen object is a flower, the player would say “F”. The other players then look around and make guesses, trying to come up with objects that begin with the same letter. When someone correctly guesses the object, that player becomes the new “I Spy” and selects the next object. To accommodate small children who cannot spell, you can use colors instead of letters.

3. Car Count

How to Play During a road trip, each person selects a unique car color. Whenever they see a car of their color, they call it out and keep track of the count. The person with the most sightings at the end wins.

4. Twenty Questions

How to Play To play this game, one player thinks of a well-known identity and says, “Who am I?” The other players have to guess the correct name within 20 questions, which should be answered by a simple “yes” or “no.” The first player keeps track of the number of questions. Players should be able to figure out if the person is real or fictitious, an entertainer or a politician, in public life, etc. within the first few questions. If the group fails to guess the right identity within 20 questions, the player gets another chance to pick another identity for the group to identify. If the group guesses the identity within 20 questions, the player who makes the right guess gets a chance to ask, “Who am I?”

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How to Play Ask each person to choose three different attributes from three different animals and combine them to create a super animal. They should also explain why they believe these attributes would be useful together. For instance, they may choose the loud roar of a lion, the size of an elephant, and the teeth of a shark. Then, they should give a name to this new creature, such as “Liophantark.”

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Travel Games for Kids (Free Printable with 6 Pages)

Are you taking the kids on a road trip? Or are you jetting away somewhere different for your next vacation? Then don’t leave home without my free printable travel games for kids ‘ book. The kids will love it and you might even get a few moments of peace, either on your journey or at your holiday destination.

Why you need my fun Travel Games for Kids printable

Whether you are going camping, on a road trip, or heading off by plane, you are going to need to entertain the kids, both on the journey and while you are on vacation. One of the best ways to provide some screen-free entertainment is with some printable travel games for children.

I have put together a free printable travel games for kids booklet which is just the ticket (if you’ll pardon the pun). Whether you are looking for some road trip travel games, or some kids travel games for a plane journey, my printable booklet will help pass some time.

Even if you are heading off camping and have already gotten hold of my kids camping journal , this activity booklet can even help if the weather turns miserable and you are stuck in a tent!

Make sure to print a copy for each child, and you can even keep them as mementos of a fun family vacation.

What is inside the Kids Travel Games Printable?

So, what will you find inside my kids travel games? There are 7 free printable travel games sheets which includes 6 pages jam-packed with things to write, draw and record. There is space for your kids to create their very own vehicle, games to help with their mathematics and even a spelling game.

You could even print out multiple copies of the drawing pages if you are going to be road tripping for more than a few days so the kids can create lots of new vehicle ideas. Set the kids a task of drawing something every day to keep them busy. Just don’t forget the pencils and crayons.

You could use a clip board to keep the pages together or place them into a plastic folder to keep them safe, together and dry (in case it rains). And once you get home, bind them together or punch holes in them and store them in a ring-binder.

Free printable Travel Games kids will love

The file is an easy to open free travel games pdf which you can save to your computer or print right away.

Grab the kids travel games here .

You will be asked to insert your first name and email address in the required boxes and to opt-in to my newsletter, which you can unsubscribe from at any time. This printable will be sent direct to your inbox (check your spam folder) as a subscriber bonus (plus you can get more free family travel printables if you continue your subscription).

NOTE: This printable (and any subsequent free printables sent to you) is for personal use only . You may not SELL or reproduce the file or printed version of the file for commercial reasons.

How to use the Travel Games

Print out the sheets in colour, along with copies of any additional pages you might want and keep safe as suggested above. Make sure to print a copy for each of your kids and also print again for more vacation adventures if you go more than once a year.

Additional things you might need

These are additional things you might need for the printed travel games for kids.

• A  plastic folder  – to keep the journal safe and dry during your trip.
• Clipboard  – another way of keeping the journal together during the trip.
• Crayola crayons  – for those all-important drawings.
• Headlights  – so the kids can fill in their journals at night after a full day of playing and exploring. These are also handy if you are camping.
• Pencil set  – for filling in details and memories from the trip.
• A  ring-binder  – to keep your kids’ completed activity books together once at home.
• Office hole punch  – for preparing the journals for the ring-binder.
• Ring-binder separators  – to separate out each kids booklets.

Whether you are setting off by car, or by plane, I hope your kids enjoy this travel games for kids printable.

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Printable Road Trip Games with a Fun DIY Travel Binder For Kids

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Family road trips can be long and boring but with a little planning ahead, you can have a fun selection of printable road trip games that will keep your kids (including preschoolers, tweens, even teens) occupied for hours.

Today I’ll show you how to easily make a DIY travel binder (no craftiness required) that’s a perfect way to store and use printable road trip games for kids.

Your whole family will thank you for this fun activity!

Best of all, you don’t have to be crafty or DIY-included to make this homemade travel binder; it’s really easy to make and the supplies are simple too.

We’ve had some great trips in the past, and honestly some downright terrible ones, so I have a few tricks up my sleeve.

Road Trip Activity Binder

For our most recent trip, I came up with this road trip activity binder. I made one for each of my children. It’s simple and filled with fun games to play on a road trip that worked well to keep them busy…and off their tablets and phones!

The best part of this DIY kids travel binder is you can add whatever activities you like and easily personalize it for each child. Plus can reuse it again and again for future road trips!

Another nice feature is it includes an attached dry erase marker and holder so your kids won’t lose their markers in the dark crevices of your car!

Y ou’ll find a huge list of printable road trip games and activities from more awesome bloggers and sites below.

• 1/2″ binder with a clear pocket in the front (I found 6 at BJ’s for $8)
• heavyweight sheet protectors
• 1 dry erase marker per travel binder *dark colors work best
• craft cord (I used a shoelace-type craft cord at Walmart that works great)

• decorative mini duct tape
• optional – map of the route you’re traveling through Google Maps or other software (see more below)
• free printable travel activities

How to Make a Kids’ Travel Binder:

You can download the free printable cover for your child’s travel binder by clicking here .

Write your child’s name at the top.

Insert this cover into the front of the binder.

Now make the simple holder for your child’s marker.

Cut off a 2-3 inch section of the decorated duct tape. Cut a small 3/4-1″ section of tape and add to the middle of the long piece’s sticky side.

Do this again for a second piece.

Using the dry erase marker as a guide, attach the tape to the middle top of your child’s travel kit binder.

Add two pieces of tape to the sides – this adds extra strength to the marker holder.

Now, cut off about 2.5 feet of craft cord (you’ll need enough cord to comfortably reach around any pages in the travel kit binder.)

Tie one piece to the top of the dry erase marker. Hot glue this in place.

Tape the other end of craft cord to the marker holder.

And you’re done with the attached marker and holder for your travel kit!

Map Activity Road Trip Printable

The free printable map activity is my favorite part of this kids’ travel binder. It’s perfect for elementary-aged kids on up because they can follow along as you travel.

It’s a great way to teach kids how to read maps in this age of GPS too! Plus you’ll hear less “Are we there yet?” with this simple addition!

I did include these map printables in my younger children’s binders (Josh, age 6 and Luke, age 4) simply because they like to follow their older siblings and I knew they would still enjoy it.

Kids can trace the route with the attached dry erase marker and they’ll love seeing the progress you’re making.

I recommend going a step farther and plan out your route including stops so your kids can see exactly how far between stops.

Go to Google Maps or some other map program. Map out your route and stops.

Then save and print out pages, depending on how long your trip.

Our trip has 5 pages for each way – 5 for traveling to Grandma and Grandpa’s house and 5 for traveling home. I uploaded each page to the free Paint program and added stars to mark where our stops with a big star for our destination.

This simple road trip binder printable alone will make your trip easier !

Last, but not least, print out activities for each of your children, depending on their ages.

Including Bingo…

Even a travel journal…

Free Printable Travel Games for Kids:

I spy / scavenger hunt games.

• Free printable iSpy travel game – traffic signs (Living Well Mom)
• Meander & Coast – travel scavenger hunt for tweens
• Make and Takes – for preschool – elementary age kids
• Live Laugh Rowe – summer vacation I spy printable

Bingo Games

• Travel holiday bingo game – Living Well Mom
• From Playdough to Plato – bingo + scavenger hunt, story starters, I Spy, and more
• Crazy Little Projects – road trip bingo

License Plate Game

• Grab our own fun License plate game with a map right here.

Coloring Printables

• Disney (includes coloring pages, printable memory games, activity pages, etc.
• Crayola (includes tons of other games like mazes, bingo, + more)

More Printable Travel Games & Activities for Kids

• Kids Activities Woo – Printable Pinwheels
• Classroom Jr – Summer writing prompts
• Kids Activities Woo – printable mad lids
• education.com has a huge select of activities including fun facts for each state, bingo games, drawing tutorials, mazes, matching games and more.
• Mother’s Home has several printable road trip games including hangman, tic tac toe, battleship and more.
• Mom’s minivan has over 100 fun car ride games and activities for kids
• Minitime has 25+ few road trip car games to choose from
• Picklebums – cute free drawing prompts
• Country Cottage – Dr. Seuss Cootie Catcher

Get the Printable Travel Games Set

Get everything in one place with the Ultimate Travel Games Bundle!

This exciting set features 30 printables, including:

• 7 iSpy games – including restaurants, car models and colors, highway signs, and more
• license plate iSpy
• 2 scavenger hunts
• 9 bingo pages
• 4 classic games – tic-tac-toe, dot connecting, battleship, hangman
• 5 drawing prompt pages
• 2 travel journal pages
• 1 reward coupons page

Click here to get yours now!!

While these this handy travel activity binder and road trip printables can’t make the miles disappear, together, they can definitely help make the whole trip go by faster and smoother for the whole family.

Happy travels!

More Road Trip Tips:

• How to Take a Road Trip with Kids & Not Go Insane
• 7 Tips for Road Trips with Kids
• 49+ Brilliant Ideas for Enjoying a Road Trip with Kids
• Your kids might also love this super easy-to-make DIY Travel Coloring Kit !

Just pin it below to find the instructions later!

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Tammileetips says

June 20, 2015 at 7:07 pm

This is a great way to keep the kids entertained in the car. I remember how bored I always got on road trips growing up.

June 21, 2015 at 10:26 am

Such a great idea. We used to buy coloring books for trips, but I like your idea better because it is personalized for the route!

June 21, 2015 at 3:58 pm

I love this idea! We’ve started a no tech in the car rule with our grandkids. It had gotten to the point where they fought over an iPad during the less than 10 minute drive from our house to theirs. I think a version of your travel binder will be fabulous even on our short everyday car rides!

valmg @ Mom Knows It All says

June 22, 2015 at 8:47 am

Using the map for the route you’re taking is a great idea! I’ve never seen anyone do that before.

Andrew says

June 22, 2015 at 9:11 am

Great idea! I have to admit, I still like to play the scavenger hunt game while on road trips! 🙂

Glenda Cates says

June 28, 2015 at 8:47 am

I love this and would not only be using it for travel but for local trips as well. As it would keep kids entertained no matter where you are going. Plus if you end up somewhere and have to wait for any amount of time they could bring it in with them to work on. So I would like to thank you for taking the time to share it with us.

Erika Bragdon says

June 28, 2015 at 12:10 pm

Great idea, Glenda! Thanks!

Nichole Moreland says

July 10, 2015 at 1:03 pm

Can you please elaborate more on how you printed the map? I am trying to put a binder together for our family vacation and I cant figure out how to get as nice of a map as you have! Thanks

July 10, 2015 at 2:54 pm

Hi Nichole, I used Google Maps to plan out our road trip route. There’s not a built-in way to print out whole map segments, so I saved a screen shot of each segment. (The number of screen shots would depend on how long your trip and how detailed you want the map to be.) Then I opened a new custom “design” in PicMonkey (sized 2550×3300 pixels – the size of regular paper), uploaded the map screen shot, and added text and graphics (a star for stops, along with the town/city, etc.)

Hope that helps! Good luck on your trip! 🙂

Heather Gaughan says

April 19, 2016 at 4:49 pm

Hi Erika! I am a travel agent and have a blog. I linked back to your site for an entry I was doing about travel binders. I included your site as one to check out for tips and forms. I hope that’s ok!

July 6, 2019 at 2:34 pm

This is awesome! I will definitely be making a binder for each of my kids. We have a 12 hr road trip next week. Thanks for the list of great printables also.

July 9, 2019 at 2:26 pm

Have a great trip, Amy!

Bridget says

June 23, 2020 at 4:13 pm

We are from NH now living in SC. About to make the summer trip back to NH for a few weeks. Thank you for the tips! My 9 yr old is going to love the binder idea!!!

July 6, 2020 at 10:56 am

Hope you all enjoy it and have a safe trip! 🙂

Jenifer Yoon says

November 17, 2020 at 1:08 pm

Thank you for putting the Road trip binder and links together. I’m not sure when you originally made the post but you may want to go back over the links, several of them didn’t work or link to anything or for I heart organizing there was no license plate game. I just wanted to let you know.

November 18, 2020 at 12:01 pm

Yes, it’s been a few years and we do need to update it. Thanks for letting me know.

Mallori says

November 5, 2021 at 12:33 am

Where did you find the license plate game with pictures of the license plates?

November 8, 2021 at 10:57 am

The original version doesn’t appear to be available any longer, however we’re finishing up our own kids travel set with a similar option and much more! It will be available very soon!

SNK Social Fame says

February 23, 2022 at 6:02 am

Thank you for the introduction of a range of information that is very interesting to see in this article. Thanks for sharing this information.

January 28, 2023 at 6:19 pm

Where did you find the picture for the front page?

February 6, 2023 at 1:24 pm

Hi Rice, I made it myself from a graphic image. It’s been a long time though. Hope you like it!

threads Bay says

September 1, 2023 at 1:15 pm

This is a great idea for a travel binder! I love the free printable games too!

September 9, 2023 at 2:03 am

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Road Trip Printables for Kids: Restaurant I Spy

By: Author Kelli Miller

Posted on Published: May 5, 2019  - Last updated: December 21, 2023

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Have you been on a search for some fun road trip printables for kids ?  This i spy road trip game might be best suited for a very long car drive since it includes so many different restaurants.

But, I am sure the kids will have fun trying to keep their eyes peeled for these logos on billboards and on the roads with this eye spy bingo printable!

Although my children are older now, they still ask for me to print these Road Trip Printables for Kids: Restaurant I Spy when we go somewhere!

When on a road trip, kids tend to get bored very easily – you know, if they are not asleep. 😀  We can keep them connected to electronics (like small tv and dvd players) so the entire world passes them by, or we can give them tools to help keep their eyes peeled on their surroundings – like this road trip i spy template.

Personally, I prefer the latter!

Worksheets and printables like this i spy travel game printable also help younger children to recognize words and letters.  Did you know that recognition of the shape and order of letters is one of the first steps to being a great reader?

Give your younger kids a fidget spinner to keep their hands occupied so that their eyes can concentrate on their surroundings while they play road trip i spy.  This soft education can really help your aspiring reader in ways you can’t even imagine!  Plus, these free printable road trip games keep the kids entertained!

Be sure to download the road trip printables for kids!  But, don’t stop there!  

Table of Contents

Road Trip Ideas for Kids:

Other road trip hacks to keep kids engaged include letting them choose things.  For example: If the kids are looking at the road signs to fill out their free road trip printable, they may notice some fun things to do.  Don’t make a road trip simply a way to get from point a to point b! 

Add in some of those fun road-side attractions to give everyone a chance to get out of the car and stretch their legs.

You can let each child pick one thing, let half pick one way and the other half pick on the way back, or let the road trip game winner choose the next excursion!

Don’t just supply this road trip restaurant scavenger hunt printable spy game for each child! Make sure to include other free printables (listed below), coloring books, word searches, crayons, road trip snacks , and other travel games to keep the kids busy.

The longer your trip is, the more ideas you will need to come up

More Road Trip Car Games:

In addition to these road trip printables, we like to play games and activities, especially now that my kids are a bit older.

We play ghost.  Ghost is an odd name for the game, but it is a fun one.

You decide on a topic (we usually do food) and then you start with the letter “a”.

The first person has to say a food that starts with the letter “a”.  The next person has to say a food that starts with the letter that the previous word ends with!

If you can’t think of a new word (no repeating), you get a “g” and the next person starts with letter “b”.  It keeps going until you get enough letters to spell the word ghost!

Then, you are out and the game continues with the remaining people!

Question Game:

My kids love to play the question game.  In the question game, you have to carry on a conversation using only questions.  That gets super hard!  But, it really causes you to think. 

When we take a family road trip, this one always gets played.  I think the kids enjoy stumping mom and dad more than anything. 🙂

2-Second Game:

The final game we absolutely love is the 2 second game.

Someone says a word and the next person has to say the very first thing that pops into their head.

 The next person, the word that pops into their head.

Two Second Game Example:

• Person One:  Day
• Person Two:  Night
• Person Three: Rider
• Person One: Horse

20 Questions:

This one can be fun for older and younger children.  Someone thinks of a person, place or thing and the others try to guess what it is by asking yes or no questions.  While the name of the game is 20 questions, we actually keep going until someone guesses correctly or until everyone gives up.

Example Questions:

• Is it bigger than a bread box?
• Can you eat it?
• Does it hum?

Unfortunately, Thomas tends to “forget” what item is in his head. So, we had to start giving him a dry erase board to write down his thing on.  This way, he can’t cheat by changing items in the middle of the game. LOL!

My Favorite Road Trippin’ Products:

Don’t stress over your next road trip!  The following Etsy (aff link) items will help you get organized (and have fun). 🙂

Road Trip Planner Stickers

Road Trip Planning Pages

Road Trip Journal for Kids

This is my Road Trip Shirt

More Road Trip Printables for Kids:

Personally, I print out a stack of different i spy printables, bingo game worksheets, coloring pages, etc  and stick them in a  storage clipboard !

Looking for more?  You can find all my  road trip printables for kids here.  This includes a licenses plates game and other great ideas for older kids.

Plus, I have a big list of  36 other road trip printables !

Love these 10 ideas for 2-year olds while traveling from Crystal and Comp

These Road Trip Story Starters from Somewhat Simple are a great way to help avoid the Summer Drain – the kids won’t even know they are learning!

No matter your age, Bingo is fun! This Reading Mama has a fun set of road trip bingo printables for us.

Make and Takes never fails to give us exactly what we didn’t know we needed! These road trip scavenger hunt printables fit the bill!

What are some great road trip activities for kids?

Taking a road trip with kids can be a great vacation option as they provide flexibility and the opportunity to explore new places. Road trips are also filled with unique activities that children of all ages will find entertaining.

To keep children engaged during the ride, parents can pack scavenger hunts or relay races. When stopping for meals, parents can create fun restaurant challenges that involve counting spoons or finding particular items on the menu.

Additionally, bringing along books, puzzles, or interactive stories will ensure that there is something for everyone during rest stops and when seeking shelter from bad weather.

While planning a road trip with kids requires creativity and advanced thinking, having access to such an array of activities makes the journey enjoyable and helps make memories that will last a lifetime.

How many games should I plan for a road trip with kids?

Planning for a road trip with children can be an enjoyable process, as it opens up opportunities to entertain the little ones along the journey.

One important thing to remember when strategizing activities is to plan enough games and distractions so that everyone remains occupied throughout the excursion. How many exactly?

Generally speaking, it’s advised to prepare two or three playlists and at least one game per hour spent on the road, as this should take up enough time and keep attention levels up.

Of course, it’s also wise to keep some extra activities tasked in case of any schedule disruptions or extended breaks.

What are some good road trip snacks for kids?

Road trips can be fun, but they aren’t necessarily so for children, who may feel cooped up in the car for long periods. To make sure that kids stay happy and engaged during a road trip, selecting the right snacks can be especially important!

Providing healthy and delicious snacks to munch on during the journey provides an enjoyable distraction from the monotony of driving. Studies have shown that healthier snack options are perceived to taste better, so items like string cheese and yogurts with granola or nut mixes provide a great balance between satisfying hunger and providing nutrition at the same time.

Additionally, foods like mandarins or Clementine oranges can give a natural burst of sweetness while also promoting oral hygiene and fresh breath after eating. By investing in these tasty options before takeoff, kids (and adults!) will thank you for the variety throughout their journey!

What is the best piece of advice for a road trip with kids?

Taking a road trip with children can be both an amazing experience and a logistical nightmare. Without proper preparation, the journey can quickly become full of tantrums and meltdowns. The most important piece of advice when embarking on a road trip with kids is to plan.

Consider factors such as meal times, rest stops, and potential delays so that you know of any possible hiccups during your travels.

Additionally, packing diversions in advance such as books, travel games, and electronic devices, can help stave off boredom and make portions of the drive more enjoyable for everyone involved. Keeping snacks on hand will also help ensure energy levels stay high throughout the trip while simultaneously lessening the chance that a spat over food might break out in the car.

With careful planning and thoughtful execution, whatever destination you have in mind is sure to be within reach!

​Use these printable activities as a great boredom buster for the long road trip, and a great way for the whole family to join in on the fun. Everyone from older children to young children will enjoy having this fun travel game. It encourages family interaction and helps to make the car ride and long drive enjoyable. Fun road trip games like this are perfect for your next car trip and are an easy way to make sure that all can have a great time. 

Plus, they’re no extra cost and the perfect way to incorporate a fun twist into the day. Use this printable activity for your next long trip! 

More Travel Games for Kids:

• Travel Scavenger Hunt For Kids Card Game
• Hangman – Take ‘N’ Play Anywhere Game
• Melissa & Doug Travel Memory Game
• Hasbro Travel Guess Who Game Fun On The Run
• Connect 4 Travel Fun On The Run; no. HG-22677
• Crayola Color Wonder Travel Tote (colors & styles may vary)
• Checkers – Take ‘N’ Play Anywhere Game

Tuesday 29th of June 2021

I’m working on a travel binder so these printables are coming at just the right time!

Wednesday 20th of January 2021

These all look cute!

Wednesday 4th of March 2020

You hit the nail on the head. Love the new twist on an I Spy road game! Thank you so very much!

Maria Covarrubias

Sunday 9th of June 2019

My kids, and me and my husband are going to Florida. This is a great idea for a 18 hour trip that's gonna be soon!

Mother of 3

Thursday 16th of May 2019

I used to make up binders with all sorts of fun printables like this for all of my boys. What a fabulous idea!! Thanks so much for sharing with us at Encouraging Hearts and Home. Pinned.

FREE Printable Travel Games

Next time you are heading off on holiday, remember to print off and pack some of our free printable travel games to keep your little ones entertained, mini holiday diary.

What holiday is complete without a souvenir of your travels? With this Mini Holiday Diary children can draw a small picture and jot down a sentence to remember the best thing about each day. Print on A3 if using with younger children or you want more space.

Are We There Yet Bingo?

We are on a trip, let’s look outside the window and see what we can find! Track your points as you go along, it is the first one to 65 points wins! Great for all ages although under 7’s may need some help with adding points.

Bingo Certificate

A nice reward for your holiday Bingo champion!

And Our Survey Said…

A great game to pass the time for the whole family based on family fortunes. Each player jots down their answers to the categories. Score 5 points for a unique answer, duplicate answer 2 points, match the host 0 points.

Guess the Word

A game of hangman but made much easier for your little ones with the inclusion of an alphabet and a pre-drawn gallows. Suitable for 5-11 years.

Combination Man

A game for the whole family to play. Follow the instruction for what to draw, fold the paper backwards and pass to the next player. Once all sections are complete, open it up and give your person a name!

i-Spy at the Airport

Take a look around the airport, tell me what do you see? Let’s play i-spy. Every time you come across one of the following, mark if off. Can you find them all? For ages 4-11.

Lego Family Holiday

The Lego family are going on holiday. Can you draw their faces and what’s in their cases? For ages 4-11.

Roll A Face!

Roll a dice 6 times. With each roll add a feature to create your unique character’s face!

The Alphabet Game

Suitable for all ages and ultra competitive! Find an item for every letter of the alphabet on your journey.

Travel Word Search

A classic travel themed word search. Suitable for ages 5-10.

Number Plate Hunt

New for 2019, Number Plate Hunt is good for use in the car or on a coach. Play by spotting the first letter on car registration plates to see where the car was registered in the UK. Try to find a car for every area of the UK! Aimed at KS2 children.

Car Badge Bingo

Also new for 2019, Car Badge Bingo is great for use in the car or on a coach. Play by spotting the different logos on car badges. Cross them off on the page and the first to complete their grid is the winner!

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