Just a few weeks ago, my family attempted our very first road trip. In the past, we have always flown with Little Man. I was a bit nervous about taking a lengthy trip in the car!
Thankfully, with a few tricks up my sleeve, we all survived the long 10 hours together in the car! I have many happy memories of summer road trips with my own family growing up. Every summer, my family would make a looooooooooong trek across the country to Utah for family reunions. That meant packing up in a small station wagon with these monkeys:
Living in the car for 2 days might have been painful. Luckily the homemade root beer, family baseball games, and toasty camp fires made it all worthwhile once we got there.
Surprisingly, road trips are now one of my favorite memories.
My Mom was a genius! She kept us entertained in the car with prizes to unwrap, vacation journals to write in, and (my personal favorite!) games to play. Our favorite game to play was Road Trip Bingo! My siblings and I searched for windmills, license plates, birds on phone wires, etc. It was sibling rivalry at its best!
Now that I am a Mom myself, I am already anticipating that ominous question, “Are we there yet?”
So I created a few printables to help entertain our kiddos for those long summer road trips!
In this version of the game, kids can search for different colored cars. You can download the Road Trip Bingo for colored cars here.
I hope this helps make your summer road trips a little bit funner!
We loved playing Road Trip Bingo when my kids were little! Thanks so much for sharing your wonderful printables! I featured your post at the Living Montessori Now Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/LivingMontessoriNow.
Super cute!! I’m glad everyone survived. The first road trip as a family is a HUGE deal! You just don’t know what to expect. Sounds like it went swimmingly!
This is great!! We have a cross-country trip coming up in about two weeks…28 hour trip to be exact….with four kiddos…ya, this is gonna’ come in handy! Thanks!
This is going to be perfect when we go to Yellowstone! Thanks for the idea!!
These are great ideas Alison, we are headed to Utah in a couple weeks for ANOTHER wedding and it would be fun to throw a few games in the mix 🙂
Haha, spelled my name wrong 🙂
These are great. I’ve used some before but I love the different colored car one. We use them on trips around town too.
You are brilliant my friend. I love the car colors one.
Ooh ooh…you could also do one for state license plates. For older kids.
Those are adorable and so useful! Love it!
I found you through Kiki Creates today & I’m so glad I did. I love this! We’ll be driving from Atlanta to Oklahoma City (14 hours) for Thanksgiving & this will be great for my son! Thank you!!!
My oldest is fascinated with traffic signs right now, so this would be perfect for him!
This is the coolest idea I’ve ever seen for a road trip game. Make our I-spy game seem so boring. Thanks for the tip. I’m going to mention on my blog: http://www.dontmesswithmama.com.
Oh my gosh! How cute is this! I am a new follower and I would love it if you would stop by and become my newest follower! Thank you for this free printable~
Thanks!
Kirsten
How fun! I’m so glad I found this just in time for our road trip next week. Thanks!
Thanks so much! We are planning on driving from Colorado to California with a 3 year old and an 18 month old! we can use any ideas we can get! I would love to hear any other ideas you may have to keep young ones entertained on a long road trip!!!
Thanks so much for Road Trip Bingo! I just blogged about the print outs and linked back to you! Thanks again.
Headed on a road trip in the morning, printing these for my preschoolers!
These look AWESOME and would love to download for our next car trip (my kids are 6, 4 and 1), but the links no longer seem to work. Could you advise? Thanks!
Hi Krystal! I just uploaded these to a new download service, so they should be working now! Have fun! 🙂
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Thanks for the fun roadtrip bingo!! I just downloaded it and I know we’ll put it to good use this week.
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AWESOME! Putting together Roadtrip Activity Journals for my 3 and this will be a great addition! Thanks! Will be giving you credit and including links to this post in an upcoming post of my own in the next few weeks! Hope you don’t mind!
Jennifer
I can not seem to get the road trip bingo cards to download. Have they been removed?
Hey Alison! I’m googling road trip games and found your blog! Small world! Thanks for the great printables!
Hello, I’m having trouble getting to the printable for the car color bingo. Is there a new link available?