Road Trip Printables

May 31, 2024 by Sarah White Leave a Comment

It feels like that time of year when people are starting to play and/or go on road trips, so it’s time for a roundup of ideas for things to do in the car.

I’ve shared some printables for roads trips in the past, and the ones in that post we actually used some of when the girl was younger. (She’s 14 now and has no interest in car trip games.)

I recently came across another version of the license plate game from Fox Farm Home, which is fun for the twist of adding silly facts about the states to the listings. For each state you see, color in the state on the map and read the fun fact. (Arkansas’ is that it has the largest ostrich farm in America, which Google tells me isn’t true, but checking that the facts are true adds an extra layer of fun.)

Living Well Mom has ideas for making a full road trip binder for kids, complete with maps and activities in plastic sleeve protectors and a dry-erase marker attached to the binder for easy playing and no random markers rolling around the car. That post has links to a bunch of free printables you can add for I-spy, bingo, license plate game, coloring pages and travel games, but they also sell a road trip bundle that includes journaling pages, bingo, Battleship and a few different I-spy games, including car makes and restaurants.

This truck spotting I spy from National Post is a great one for kids who are obsessed with all kinds of trucks. I also like the car color search from Productive Pete.

About a Mom has another good set of road trip printables that includes a word scramble, I spy, scavenger hunt, journal page, maze and coloring page. Homeschool and Happiness has another great free road trip activity book that includes a maze, word search, tic tac toe blanks, scavenger hunts and more.

Mama Cheaps has a set of printable conversation starters to keep in the car to use during car trips long or short, or when waiting in the car line or in traffic. These are free and each prompt is printed on a circle shape so you can cut them out and store them in a round tin.

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Learn about Your Local Birds

Fall is a great time to learn about and observe the birds in your area, but you can do this any time of year. Whether you’re watching from a backyard or a playground, you’re sure to find a few birds and can learn about the birds that are native to your region in any case.

If you do see birds at home or where your classroom is, the Merlin app is a great one (if your school allows phones). If you don’t already know it, it listens to the sounds around you and can identify birds based on their calls. Very cool and a reason for kids to be quiet while you’re observing nature. Having an old fashioned paper guidebook to the birds where you live is also a great idea because kids can use it to look up birds and it’s just fun to have in the science center.

The specific birds involved in your learning will vary depending on where you live, but here are some bird activities you can do with your kids at home or in the classroom.

Natural Beach Living set up a simple bird nature study center that includes bird books and feathers in front of a big window. There are also some printables you’ll find links to in this post including three part cards and bird observation charts for birds local to them and a bird unit study with lots of great printables (this is a paid resource).

Adventure in a Box has a printable birds of the world bingo game, which might inspire you to learn more about some of the 48 different birds included, from emu to snowy owl, grackle to Atlantic puffin.

If you’re American you’ll enjoy these state bird coloring pages from Flanders Family Home Life. If I can count, only 48 states are listed (which I wouldn’t have noticed except Arkansas isn’t there; it’s one of many whose state bird is the mockingbird). Print out all of them or just your home state, or give each child a bird to research and color to do a presentation in the classroom.

And you can learn more about the different types of bird nests and see if you can observe any of them on a nature walk with this guide to bird nests from Fun Mom Printables on Etsy. It includes information about eight types of nests with drawings and three part cards.

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