15 Creative Road Trip Activities + Ideas
We love these 15 Creative Road Trip Activities to get our family vacations and loooong drives off to a great start with kids! Road trips are so hard for most kids, so you’ll want to stick around and discover a few helpful ideas and activities to make road trips with kids a whole lot easier.
Here’s several more Road Trip Activities you’ll want to memorize before your next family road trip
15 Creative Road Trip Activities + Ideas
Quiet Road Trip Ideas
- Read aloud with your kids – here’s 10 Great Book Series for Middle Grade and High School – via As We Walk Along the Road
- Younger readers will enjoy these 12 Chapter Book Series for Young Readers – via Childhood 101.
- Take a picture in front of each US state sign. Here’s How to Visit All 50 States in 12 Trips – via Travel 50 States with Kids
- Keep bored minds busy with this FREE printable Road Trip Scavenger Hunt – via Kristen Duke
- Keep track of passing license plates with this America the Beautiful printable US map. Bonus! The kids will learn the location of states too – via Lulu the Baker
- Record your road trip and vacation memories using these Creative Journal Ideas for Kids – via What Do We Do All Day?
Fun Car Games and Busy Activities for Kids
- Keep little hands busy with these 10 Easy Busy Bags made from pencil pouches – via Powerful Mothering
- My boys will love marking off all the trucks they see along the rode with this Truckspotting printable – via National Post
- Learn how one mom survived a 15 hour road trip with kids with a Road Trip Mystery Survival Kit – via Teal and Lime
- Keep kids mesmerized for hours with a Calming Find It Game–it’s like “Eye Spy” in a bottle! – via Lady Behind the Curtain
- I love that this Dry Erase Road Trip Games + A Kids Travel Kit is reusable! – via Simply Designing with Ashley
Road Trip Hacks to Make Travel Easier with Kids
- Here’s 17 Incredible Family Travel, Hotel, and Road Trip Hacks that you’ll definitely want to know – via Krazy Coupon Lady
- We like these Road Trip Snack Boxes that help make road trip snacking a little healthier – via I Should Be Mopping the Floor
- We love these 18 Road Trip Snacks for Vacay Munching…there’s even some healthy options! – via Brit + Co
- Here’s 8 Great Free Road Trip Apps to make planning your next road trip more manageable and fun! – via KOA
What creative ideas do you use to make long car rides fun?
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I didn’t bring a book to read out loud earlier in the summer on trip. I so want to next time.
I love the license plate map idea! Thanks Becca!
These are some great ideas. Thanks for sharing. I posted some ideas on building literacy while on a car trip on my blog at http://growingbookbybook.com/2012/06/04/literacy-activities-in-the-car/ if you are looking for some more ideas.
Here is my list of 7 games for in the car that require no equipment http://www.growingplay.blogspot.com/2012/04/games-for-car-rides-and-kids-no.html
Wonderful ideas for travel. But please don’t buy your 3 year toys from the dollar store. If you subscribe the CPSIA emails regarding recalls, you will see that many recalled toys come from the dollar stores. Buy your children’s toys from a reputable local toy store from professionals who can help you choose toys that are safe, stimulating, and age appropriate.
What a stuff of un-ambiguity and preserveness of valuable familiarity on the topic of unexpected feelings.
Its like you read my mind! You seem to know so much about this, like you wrote the book in it or something.
I think that you can do with some pics to drive the message home
a bit, but other than that, this is wonderful blog.
A great read. I will certainly be back.
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