Going on a family road trip is an excellent way to experience new places and see new sights. Many families start thinking about family road trips during the warmer seasons of the year. A time when the sun starts to shine and the kids are restless from the dreary winter season.
If you’re planning on going out on the open road for a family road trip with kids, then you’ll surely want to read our tips to keep kids entertained. There are many ways you can work to keep your kids engaged and occupied during a family road trip. Below you’ll find our best tips to help your kids enjoy this fun-filled family adventure on the road.
How to Keep Kids Entertained on Family Road Trip
Make a Music Playlist
Get together and have each family member select some road trip music. Create a family road trip playlist where each of you will have your favourite songs playing on the car stereo system for a portion of your family road trip. Enjoy singing along to your favourite songs together during your family road trip.
Play Games
We created a car-based i-Spy game free printable for your kids. This printable activity is the perfect way to keep your kids entertained during a family road trip. Simply print out the i-Spy game board and game pieces, making sure you have one for each kid and enjoy spying cars along the route of your family road trip together.
Bring Books
A family road trip provides an excellent opportunity to freshen up those literacy skills. Have each kid pack a book bag where they have their favorite books, including some that are required reading for school sessions. This will give your kids time to sit quietly in the car and engage in independent reading time during your family road trip.
What should kids bring on a road trip?
When it comes to knowing what kids should bring on a road trip, you’ll have to take into consideration how long your family road trip will be. Our i-Spy game free printable cars edition will keep your kids entertained for quite a bit of time, all the while encouraging them to work together trying to find each car-based item on the i-Spy printable.
Have each of your kids pack one bag per child filled with items that they can play with, read, and enjoy during your family road trip. This bag will help your kids self-entertain all the while making you a happy couple of parents knowing that your kids are enjoying this family road trip.
When it comes to finding creative ways to keep your kids entertained on a family road trip, you’ll need to first think about what your kids enjoy doing the most. Combine the interests that your kids have with activities and creative ideas that will work for a family road trip. Together you can have a fabulous time rejuvenating and reconnecting during a family road trip.
If you are looking for more free printables and road trip ideas check these posts out from KiddyCharts:
Travel coloring pages for kids: What cities mean
City focused travel colouring pages for the kids to have a go at in the back of the car.
Free printable kids iSpy game for the car
Another iSpy game for the came - but with a little bit of a twist. Check it out.
5 family travel ideas you won't have thought of
Ideas for travel for your next family holiday - that you might not have actually thought of doing before.
And these from around the web:
5 Tips to Help You Save on Your Next Road Trip
Ideas to make sure that your next road trip runs as smoothly as possible.
Road Trip Printables for Kids: Restaurant I Spy
Another kind of iSpy for the car - this time with a restaurant theme.
Road Trip Drawing Prompts - Free Printables.
Finally, some drawing prompts for your next road trip.
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Helen
Helen is a mum to two, social media consultant, and website editor; and this site is (we think) the only Social Enterprise parenting magazine! Since giving up being a business analyst when juggling travel, work and kids proved too complicated, she founded KiddyCharts so she could be with her kids, and use those grey cells at the same time. KiddyCharts has reach of over 1.1million across social and the site. The blog works with big family brands (including travel) to help promote their services, as well as offering free resources to parents of kids under 10. It gives 51%+ profits to Reverence for Life, who fund a number of important initiatives in Africa, including bringing running water and basic equipment to a school in Tanzania. Helen has worked as a digital marketing consultant (IDM qualified) with various organisations, including Channel Mum, Truprint, Talk to Mums, and Micro Scooters. She loves to be creative in the brand campaigns she works on. Get in touch TODAY!