Road Trip Printables

So you’re heading down the highway and for the past 40 miles all you’ve heard is “I’m boooored”. And it’s not a polite suggestion for an activity. It’s a high pitched whiney cry that is probably going straight to the brain.

Yep. I know that feeling. With our closest grandparent being 3 hours away, road trips are a common practice. And while I would like to say that we NEVER have whining kids. I have to be honest. It still happens. But with these road trip printables, we’re closer to sanity than most.

When we started sharing our road trip tips, our little ones were toddlers. If you’re traveling with kids this young, you won’t want to miss our tips for traveling with toddlers. Since then we’ve mastered traveling with kids of all ages.

We’ve created lots of fun printables for kiddos to keep them entertained while you’re keeping your eyes on the road.

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Don’t have time to print these now? Pin it for later!

If you’re currently waiting in line at the grocery store with a cart full of travel snacks, save this pin and come back to it at home. That way you’ll be able to grab all the fun road trip printables when you’re ready!

Tips for getting the most out of your printable travel games

• Store all the printables in a 3-ring binder. Your kids will be able to get to their games quickly and have a hard surface to write on.
• Save some of the printables for later. I like to give my kiddos a few to start with and then they get a new printable every 30 minutes or so.
• Make sure you save some for the ride home! The ride home is usually harder than the ride there. So I like to make sure I have fresh sheets ready for the return trip.

Road Trip Printables for Kids

Keep your kids entertained during their long road trip with these fun printable travel games.

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Road Trip Bingo

We love a good round of road trip bingo in our family. This printable pack comes with 4 separate sheets and coloring page style graphics so they can color too!

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Printable Alphabet Game

The alphabet game is a classic road trip activity. Help your little ones play along with this quick printable!

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Scrambled States Activity

This fun printable is for older kids. Plus, once their done unscrambling the states they can use it to play the license plate game!

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Road Trip Boredom Buster Book

This book has over 20 pages of road trip printables. Perfect for a long trip!

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Road Trip Boredom Buster Book - Preschool Edition

We've taken the best of our popular road trip pack and made it perfect for preschool-aged kiddos!

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Camping Travel Game

Heading to the campground? This pack includes some popular road trip games with fun camping games and coloring pages.

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Easter Travel Game

Traveling to grandma's house at Easter? Grab this fun Easter themed travel pack. It has printable road trip activities along with some fun Easter printables and coloring pages.

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More road trip ideas you might like

• Tips for traveling with toddlers. They are small and nothing holds their attention for long. These tips are from us road warriors whos kids have packed on the miles.
• Tips for traveling with kids These tips will keep the sanity level at a safe spot. From what to snack on to when to leave. These quick tips will help you get from A to B in peace.

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Looking for printable road trip activities?

• Do road trips tend to equal stress in your family?
• Are the kids constantly “bored” in the car?
• Do you fear the moment the battery might die on your kiddo’s devices?

We have something to help!

Get your road trip boredom buster!

We love bringing you ways to keep your kiddos busy and we aren’t holding anything back on this Road Trip Boredom Buster Book!

The travel games are meant to get your kiddo involved in the trip and not tuned out the whole way.

Get your road trip boredom buster!

When your kid is enjoying the drive, they will be less likely to repeat the term “are we there yet” over and over and over again.

There are over 20 pages in this activity book and they include all sorts of car games to keep your kids busy during a road trip.

The best part, you get to pick the pages! You can print off just a few sheets for a quick trip upstate, or print off the whole book, for every kiddo in the car, for one of those ‘never-ending’ car rides.

Most of the pages are designed for kids between the ages of 6 and 10.  However, several can be played by younger kiddos and I know several adults who would love to join in the fun. (psst…if you have a preschooler, check this out!)

Need a better reason to grab the book?  Some of the pages will even have your kiddos quiet! At least for a little while…

Then you can bounce back with some fun friendly competition. Let’s face it when everyone is having fun together, the ride is that much more memorable, and it doesn’t hurt that it makes the time fly by!

However, you decide to use these printable road trip activities, know that it’s one less bar in that iPad’s battery.  One less round of “are we there yet”.  And quite possibly, one more hour of a peaceful car ride.  And that, my friends, is priceless!

Get your road trip boredom buster!

Don’t wait! Grab your Road Trip Boredom Buster today and be prepared for your next family road trip!

There’s more! Grab these tips for traveling with kids and road trips with toddlers.

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Road Trip With Kids

Travel season is right around the corner. For us, being a Military Family, that means a lot of car rides and sore butts.  With our average car ride being around 7 hours, at least 7 times a year, I have learned a thing or two when it comes to surviving a road trip with kids.

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Timing Is Everything When Traveling With Kids

By this I don’t mean pick a time, I mean really look at when to leave. Find out if you will be hitting a major city at rush hour. It isn’t worth leaving at 6:00 AM if this causes you to be stuck in traffic for an hour because you hit St. Louis. However, I DO suggest leaving early. Even if the kiddos are excited they are more likely to stay calm and relaxed for the first leg of the trip. Take full advantage of this!

Sleepy=Quiet

Choose the right road trip snacks

If you are going on a long-distance road trip with kids, you will have to pack snacks. This might be where I have learned the most from trial and error!! This is where my ‘reading every label’ days have really paid off! If you want to maintain some sort of sanity, avoid letting them pick up HoHo’s and Twinkies for the ride. Loading them with sugar, then expecting them to have an “inside voice” or sit still…not gonna happen. Also, steer clear of artificial colors in food. There are many studies that link artificial colors to hyperactivity, you can check one out here.  Car rides and the wiggles don’t mix well.

When You Are Road Tripping With Kids -Don’t Down the Drinks

The same rules as the munchies apply here. Stay away from loads of sugar, caffeine, and colors. Water. That is all my kids have in the car. We also keep the water in the front seat with the adults. If it’s sitting with us, we can control the liquid intake.  They get enough to stay hydrated, but they’re not downing a whole bottle in five minutes.

Less drinks=less bathroom breaks.

Traveling with younger ones? Check out these tips for surviving a road trip with Toddlers!

Get Out for Lunch

This might just be the most important one of the tips for traveling with kids. Plan ahead and pack lunch. We usually do sandwiches, carrot sticks, and apples. Find a Rest Stop to have your lunch. Get Out of the car. Let them get out of the car and run around, play, be loud, & stretch! You too! Being stuck in a car all day gets exhausting for Everyone involved. This will give you all a chance to blow off some energy. Since they are right off the interstate. You won’t even lose much time. It will be well worth it when you can pile back in the car, and have some good quiet time again. ***Don’t forget to use the restrooms before getting back on the road!

Find Fun Travel Activities for Kids

We have all heard this one. Yes, there are tablets & portable game systems… but those batteries can die. We also don’t like their faces in tablets the whole time. The boys are always in charge of packing up backpacks for the ride. They make sure to have at least one reading book, colors, coloring books, & a few action figures.

We block off ‘quiet time’ during the ride. Don’t make the quiet times too long, we have 15-20 mins that they pull out a book to read. I also always bring something New for the ride. A new coloring book or activity. It will hold their attention longer if it is new.

Play Games or even sing songs… (does anyone do that anymore??). Anything that gets the whole car interacting together. It can really help the time pass by.

We used to spend our family road trips making friendship bracelets!

Check out our collection of printable road trip games! From bingo to I spy, there is something for everyone!

Whether it is a 3-hour trip to visit Grandma or a 10-hour trip to the ocean. You don’t have to dread the car ride. With these tips for traveling with kids, it will be a bit more bearable, maybe even a little bit of fun! 

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Summer is beginning to creep up on us.  And with it comes the family vacations.  We look forward to all of the fun memories, the pictures, the Facebook updates, and the car rides…wait the car rides aren’t the fun part…  The car ride is the long part that leads up to the fun part…and the even longer part after all the fun and it’s time to go home!

Finding fun travel games.

It can be a challenge.  Especially if you’re traveling for hours upon hours to get to an amazing destination.  They’re anxious to get there and they are stuck.  We’ve shared some of our tips for traveling with the toddlers.  But what about the bigger kids?  Sure you can toss them an iPad…but what happens when the battery dies!!! I will tell you what happens… “I’m Bored” starts to become the go-to phrase for the rest of the ride.

So give them these free road trip bingo printables!

These bingo cards have been approved by J and are ready to hit the road.

There are several different pages so that you can have a little friendly competition in the car.

Plus, they are made with pictures so that some of the younger travelers can participate too.

How do you play travel bingo?

I’ve seen travel bingo played several ways.

There is always your traditional Bingo. First one to get a row of 5 Wins!

You can play in pairs. One person calls out what they see, while the other crosses them off the sheet. This might be helpful if you are traveling with a younger crowd.

The whole car can play together as a team.

Or it can be a race to the finish…who can cross off the whole board first.

No matter how you play, a fun round of road trip bingo will help to kill some of the time trapped in the car.

Get your Free Road Trip Bingo printables today!

Happy Travels!

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Road Trips with Toddlers

With the holidays coming up, there are probably a lot of people planning road trips to grandma’s house. In our family, the closest grandma is three hours away. So, as you can imagine, we do a lot of road trips with toddlers.

My kids have gotten to that age where I can no longer guarantee they will stay asleep for an entire car ride.  This means I either have to deal with loud babies…or get creative.  I’m choosing the latter.

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These are a couple of the things that I do to stay sane during our long drive.

Books.  Books.  And More Books!

Books are my biggest ally during car rides. I load up the car with as many that can fit. I start with a chunk in between the kids and have backups for later.  And I pick longer books or books with a lot of pictures.  These seem to hold their attention longer than a quick board book.

Magnet Puzzles

For this last trip, I tried something new. I glued magnets to the backs of some puzzle pieces.

It only took a dot of super glue and a small piece of scrap magnet. I have a stash of advertising magnets that worked perfectly.

I was going to buy some inexpensive cookie sheets, but I didn’t get around to it. So I threw these cake pans in the bag instead.

They were a hit!

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