15 Printable Road Trip Games and Activities For Your Next Family Road Trip

1. Scavenger Hunt

A scavenger hunt is a great way to keep the kids busy during a long car ride. Download and print one of my road trip scavenger hunts and then bring it along on your next trip. During the drive, have your children search for the items on the scavenger hunt.

I have scavenger hunts with pictures so even your littles who cannot read yet can enjoy this fun printable road trip game!

2. Bingo

A printable road trip bingo game is fun for the entire family. Give every passenger a bingo card before hitting the road. Then, once the road trip starts, see who can find the items on their card and get bingo first!

This printable road trip bingo game comes with 12 unique cards!

Travel Bingo

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3. Battleship

This printable game is a road trip version of the board game Battleship. To play this game, each player “hides” their vehicles somewhere on the map. Then, the players go back and forth guessing coordinates trying to find where all of the opponent’s vehicles are hidden.

4. I Spy

This road trip I Spy game is the perfect printable to pull out when you need a little quiet in the vehicle. On this printable road trip game, your kids will search the picture for travel items such as a car, suitcase, compass, and more!

5. License Plate Game

The license plate game is one of the classic printable road trip games! As you travel, read off the license plates of the vehicles passing by and call out the state it’s from.

Then, check it off on your printable or color the state in. See if you can find all 50 states before you reach your destination.

Clipboard

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6. Word Search

A word search is another great individual car ride activity. See if your kids can find all 20 road trip words in this puzzle.

7. Would You Rather

Would you rather is one of our family’s FAVORITE printable road trip games! These printable cards are a great way to spark fun conversations with your family while sharing a few laughs.

All you have to do is read the card out loud and let everyone answer which of the two options they would rather have.

8. Tic-Tac-Toe

How cool is this?! This DIY tic-tac-toe game is perfect for a road trip. No more loose paper and pencils to play this printable road trip game. It’ll surely be a hit with your kids.

9. Hangman/ Smiley Face

Hangman is a great word game for kids who can read and write. If you’d rather, you can play Smiley Face which is the more kid-friendly version of the game. Instead of drawing a person when incorrect letters are guessed you’d draw parts of the face (eyes, nose, mouth, ears).

10. Word Scramble

This word scramble is another one of the individual printable road trip games. Unscramble the travel words to solve the road trip riddles!

11. Alphabet Game

There are two ways to play the alphabet game on a road trip. One way to play is to use signs, billboards, license plates, etc to find the letters of the alphabet working from A to Z.

Another way is to find an item that starts with each letter of the alphabet such as a billboard for B or a garbage truck for G.

12. Travel Journal

A DIY travel journal is a great way for kids to document their adventures. These printable travel journal pages allow your child to journal where their adventure is, the things they see, their favorite parts, and more. This keepsake is definitely a MUST!

13. Dots and Boxes

To play this game, two players go back and forth making one horizontal or vertical line that connects any two dots. The player who connects the fourth side and completes a box puts their initials inside it.

After all the boxes have been completed, tally each player’s boxes. The player with the most boxes wins!

14. Map

“Are we there yet?” If you’ve taken a road trip with kids I’m sure you’re all too familiar with that question. This is why a printable road trip map is a must-have for kids. Before your road trip, draw your route on a map for your kids to keep.

Plot 4-6 (or more) points along your route. Then use these route cards to write how many miles you’ve traveled how far you have to go and a little fun fact about that place. You can always look up the fun fact in the vehicle as you drive through that area.

This map and cards are great for helping kids visualize the distance you’ve traveled and the distance you have left to go.

15. Finish The Phrase

Print out one copy of this Finish the Phrase game per person. Then, during the road trip, each player finishes the phrase without showing or saying their answers.

For example, you could write jam or light to finish the word traffic. After everyone has written down their answers go around the vehicle telling each other what you put.

Determine which answer was the most common and give a point to whoever had that answer. Go through and do this with each one. Tally everyone’s points at the end, and whoever has the most points wins!