Our family travel idea website, RadRoadTrips.com, is the destination of choice for parents, teens, and children looking for helpful travel tips. We specialize in travel activities for the kids, games in the car, fun travel songs, and free printable activity books that keep the kids engaged in the family road trip. Navigate to Our family travel idea website, RadRoadTrips.com, is the destination of choice for parents, teens, and children looking for helpful travel tips. We specialize in travel activities for the kids, games in the car, fun travel songs, and free printable activity books that keep the kids engaged in the family road trip.
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Categories Activity Worksheet Creator

Categories Activity Worksheet Creator...

Whether on the road, in the classroom, or playing games as a family, the Categories Activity worksheet can be a fun companion to many situations. It can be played by children, teens, or adults…they just need to be able to read and write. The ‘Categories’ generator creates a grid with a number of topics down the left column of the grid. It will also create a number of columns with letters at the head of...
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Create your own Logic Puzzles

Create your own Logic Puzzles...

One of the favorite puzzles my kids like to do on road trips is to solve logic puzzles. They have become such a demand, that we have created a tool that allows you to create logic puzzles of your own. Right now we support 4×4 sized puzzles. Simply enter a title and description for your puzzle. Then list the entities (labels such as Car, Color, Shirt, Music, Name, Birth Month, etc) for your puzzle. Put the entity...
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Word Squeeze Puzzle Creator

Word Squeeze Puzzle Creator...

I haven’t seen these types of puzzles since I was a kid, but the other day my daughter was trying to do one that she has found in an old magazine. The nostalgia came rushing back to me and I decided to build an online creator for these types of puzzles. There is really nothing to these puzzles. You just take a word of your choice and have it enlarged vertically and shrunk horizontally so that it is hard to see what...
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Online Message Grid Puzzle Creator

Online Message Grid Puzzle Creator...

The Message Grid Puzzle is our latest big family travel tip! We only discovered these types of puzzles for kids a few months ago, but already the younger children have loved doing these more simple puzzles. We call these puzzles, our Message Grid Puzzles. You can quickly and easily generate a puzzle for your kids and print them off for your next family road trip. This is how they work. You type in a short message (if your...
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Boundary Letter Puzzle Creator

Boundary Letter Puzzle Creator...

You many have never heard of a Letter Boundary Word Puzzle. We recently got an idea for this puzzle off of a twitter post by @PennyDellPuzzle. This puzzle will probably be more ideal for older kids, teenagers, and adults who like word puzzles. The object of the puzzle is to provide a letter at the beginning of the word as well as a letter at the end of the word. You also specify the number of letters in the word. The...
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Online Crossword Puzzle Generator

Online Crossword Puzzle Generator...

We are excited to bring Crossword Puzzle Maker utility into our road trip activities website. Our kinds enjoy doing puzzles on our road trips. Crosswords are always a favorite! The goal is to fill the white squares with letters, forming words or phrases, by solving clues which lead to the answers. The answer words and phrases are placed in the grid from left to right and from top to bottom. Squares in which answers begin...
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Online Handwriting Worksheet Generator

Online Handwriting Worksheet Generator...

We have a number of young children that are the preschool and early grade school age. If my young ones take after me, they are going to have issues with handwriting. In order to keep the younger kids engaged on our road trips, we have started creating handwriting practice sheets for them to work on during part of the trip. Before now we had to either buy educational workbooks or download a special handwriting font and...
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Online Word Paths Puzzle Creator

Online Word Paths Puzzle Creator...

You don’t often see this type of puzzle, but it can be both challenging and fun. We have created a Word Paths Puzzle generation tool so that you you can create fun puzzles adapted to the age and skill of your children (or adults!). With our Word Paths Puzzle generator, you can first, design your puzzle grid. You can set the size and even make customized borders by blocking out different parts of the puzzle grid. Once...
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Online Dot-to-Dot Creation Tool

Online Dot-to-Dot Creation Tool...

Do you have little kids that enjoy doing Dot-to-Dot puzzles in the car, but don’t know where to get them? Now you can create dot to dot puzzles on your own! With our dot to dot creator / generator, you can load a picture from the internet and add dots and lines to the picture. When you are done, you can hide the picture and print the puzzle. There are two modes with the dot to dot generator. The first mode is...
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Online Word Search Creator

Online Word Search Creator...

Word search puzzles are one of the oldest word games that I have played in my life. They are a timeless puzzle that never seems to get out of style. Our kids love to do word searches in the car for long and short trips. In order to keep the word search puzzles interesting, we have worked on a utility that you can use to perform many variations on the word search puzzle theme. You can create word search puzzles that are...
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Dots Game Generator

Dots Game Generator...

Remember playing the dots game as a kid during church meetings, in a quiet corner? This same game is a great way to keep kids entertained in the car as well. Of course, it only works if they have someone sitting next to them to play with them. For those of you who are rusty on how to play the game, here are some instructions: Generate a grid of dots on a piece of paper using our tool below One child connects two of the...
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Cryptogram Creation Tool

Cryptogram Creation Tool...

A cryptogram is a puzzle where a sentence is encoded by substituting the actual letters of the sentence with different letters or symbols. To solve the puzzle, one must deduce which letters go with each cypher code. With our tool you can generate your own cryptograms to be printed out and used on your next road trip. You can make the as easy as you want or as hard as you can. Simply type in the text of the quote or...
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Create your Own Maze – Maze Generator

Create your Own Maze – Maze Generator...

Do your kids like to do mazes? Fill your next road trip with a bunch of a-maze-ing fun by creating your own mazes for them. Use the tool below to generate the maze that fits your needs. You must have frames enabled for this. Or, you can go to our Maze...
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Create your own Anagrams!

Create your own Anagrams!...

My kids love to do anagrams while on our family car trips. The road trip goes much better when the kids have a pencil and paper in hand working on unscrambling the letters to make real words. You can easily create your own anagrams by typing a list of words in the box below. The words can be separated by a space or a new line. Create your own...
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Quote Boxes

Quote Boxes...

Quote boxes are fun little puzzles that take all of the letters in a quote that you provide and it lines them up into a table. The letters in each column of the table are then mixed up so that you have to decode them. To generate a quote box puzzle, just type in a short quote in the box below. We will do the rest. You can print out your puzzle and give them to the kids on your next family trip! Please note —...
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Math Facts Printable Sheets

Math Facts Printable Sheets...

Amazon.com Widgets Math Facts Cards One way we have kept our kids “entertained” in the back seat on road trips is to give them some math problems to do. If you call it a road trip activity, then they won’t see it as homework! Use our Math Fact Sheet / Flash Card generator for your next road trip. You must have frames enabled for this. Or, you can go to our math worksheet...
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Mad Libs

Mad Libs...

Mad Libs is a word game that everyone can enjoy. A player is prompted to provide a list of words that will later be substituted into a story. The player is first asked to provide nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, etc. once he or she has filled out those words, they are substituted into a story and read out loud to everyone in the car. These word substitutions often end up being very funny and brings laughs to kids and adults...
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Sudoku

Sudoku...

Most people are familiar with the logic number puzzle that swept the world by storm in the 1990′s. The object of the puzzle is to fill a 9×9 grid of numbers such that there are no repetition of digits in either a row, a column, or in a 3×3 sub-grid on the puzzle. Each puzzle comes with a set number of cells are that have numbers provided as a starting point. The puzzle solver attempts to place digits in...
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Bingo Games

Bingo Games...

Partial Screenshot of a Traffic Sign Bingo Card Bingo is a fun game for nearly all ages. Our bingo cards are dynamically generated – allowing you to print out a different card every time. Feel free to print bingo cards and laminate them for future use if you care to. How to Play Each person in the car is given a different bingo card. During the road trip, as the players spot items similar to what is on the card (eg....
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