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Printable Road Trip Games for Kids (Free Travel Activities for Cars & Flights)

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Kids Printable Travel Games Collage

Looking for easy road trip games for kids that don’t involve screens? These free printable travel games are perfect for long car rides, flights, cruises or even waiting at restaurants.

I created these simple, kid-approved travel printables to keep kids entertained without devices and they’ve been a lifesaver on our own family trips.

Hopefully, the following kids printable travel games will help keep your child from asking the inevitable “Are we there yet?” question every 5 minutes.

What’s Included in These Free Travel Printables

This set includes 3 printable road trip games that are easy to use and fun for a wide range of ages:

✔ A fun travel hunt (bingo)
✔ A classic road trip game (license plate game)
✔ A simple activity game (travel word search)

They’re designed to be:

  • Easy to print
  • Simple for kids to understand
  • Perfect for screen-free travel

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26 Things to Pack for a Cruise: Plus Printable Packing List for Cruise Vacations

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Pack for a Cruise

While on a recent cruise, I started putting together a packing list for cruise vacations.  These are things that are always in our suitcase when cruising or things that I forgot to pack and kicked myself about later. Even if you’re a veteran cruiser, you may find a few of these tips useful.

We also put together a handy printable packing list for cruise vacations.  Click here to download the editable form and start personalizing it for your cruising needs.

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Free Printable Cruise Planner

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Free Printable Cruise Planner

Some of our favorite family vacations have been on board a cruise ship.  These massive cities on water provide great food, entertainment and the ability to move from place to place without the hassle of changing hotels.  Before taking your next adventure on the high seas, download my FREE printable cruise planner.  You’ll find plenty of space to enter your flight and cruise information, as well access to my cruise packing list and travel checklist.

Click HERE to download the printable cruise planner or you can click to print each image below.

Don’t miss our printable packing list for cruise vacations to help with your packing needs. We’ve included over 20 things to pack for a cruise, so you don’t forget anything and have purchase it one the ship.

Cruise Planner with cruise and flight information

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Free Printable Disney Vacation Planner

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Printable Disney Vacation Planner

 

If you’re planning a trip to the happiest place on earth, download our FREE printable Disney vacation planner.  The planner includes a day at Disney, trip details, kids journal and vacation countdown sheet.

This Disney vacation planner will help you stay organized plus provide fun goodies for kids.  Use the countdown to let children mark off the days until you depart.  Instead of saying “Mom, how many more days until we leave for Disney,” they can simply keep their own countdown with Mickey.

The journal is specially designed to help kids record their memories and add pictures that captivated their hearts.  If you’re planning to visit multiple days, I suggest printing several copies. Don’t forget they might mess up and want to re-do one of the journal sheets!  Kids can work on their journal in the evening as they’re winding down from an exciting day.

Click HERE to download the PDF or you can print each of the images below separately.

Printable Disney Vacation Planner:

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Free Printable Travel Budget Worksheet

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Travel Budget Worksheet

Sometimes the cost of travel can get away from us if we’re not prepared.  That’s why I prefer to do a quick travel budget worksheet before each trip just to help keep our spending in check.

It also helps me to know what we actually spent while on vacation.  Maybe I notice I over estimated the cost of food,  but under estimated the cost of entertainment.  Knowing the estimated and actual cost of travel can help you plan accordingly for future vacations as well.

Save the travel budget worksheet after each trip, so you can reference the cost of previous trips while planing your next adventure.  You never know, you might be able to afford more vacations that you think!

Download the Travel Budget Worksheet PDF here.   Once you download the PDF, you can either print it off or edit the document with all your budget right on the form!

What other tips can you share for creating a travel budget worksheet?

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