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Our first in a series of travel “Passports” for kids. We have been experimenting with these passports with our own family. We thought it was time to start sharing them with the rest of the family traveling community!
These slick passports contain both individual activities as well as activities that encourage interaction with other people in the vehicle. Many of these games, songs, or activities have been taken from the ideas on our RadRoadTrips.com website.
The activity passport books are free to use. Simply open up the PDF file and print out the book. These books were designed to be printed on both sides of paper in a printer. When these are printed in a two sided formation, they can then be cut in the middle and either stapled or bound spirally at a copy center.
I like to add a clear plastic sheet on the front and back for additional durability.
Finished Product of Spiral Bound Passport
If you have a Kinkos, or other copy center nearby, you can take a copy of the pdf file to the copy center and they can produce the booklet for you for a nominal fee.
These books are also designed such that you can reward your children from completing a certain number of pages in the activity booklet (See the last page of the passport). We also included a small section at the end of the book
as a field guide, or travel journal so that kids can record their activities.
Stay tuned for future versions of these passports as our family does some more traveling. Our kids are hooked and ask for them on every major road trip we take. We’ll be creating more, but we want to hear your feedback. Try them out and let us know what worked well and what could be improved. (See the comment form below).
Finally, feel free to share our activity book with others. Save on your email bandwidth by forwarding this website address rather than attaching the PDF itself – it also helps us get more feedback from people that actually use the booklets.
Let us know what you think!
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Please mail me two of the travel activiy books for children to:
Debra K Dove
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Debra,
Thank you for your interest in our activity books. Unfortunately, we don’t offer these books as a published work. Instead, we let anyone download the book on their own computer for printing.
The example given on the website, is a picture of the passport that I took to Kinkos or a similar copy center and had them print and bind for me.
If you have a hard time finding out how to get open the PDF document on the page, plesae let me know.
We just got back from our 2,000 mile road trip yesterday. We used these passports and the kids absolutely loved them.
Best Wishes,
John
thank you for the travel booklets
Excellent site!
We’re going on a road trip for thanksgiving. My kids are begging me to create another passport for our trip, so gear up for our November version of the travel passport! Hopefully i will have it done in a week.
I think these passports are fun and exiting! They take quite a while to do, so the kids don’t get board. It’s fun to do have little prizes you can earn with how many pages you complete. I think these books rock and are great for kids!
Arbonboy’s daughter
I travel with my 10-year old twins by car, all the time. They don’t have a DVD player in the car and we are all about “road trip” and activities… perfect site for us. Downloaded the November passport adn can’t wait to show it to them on our trip to DC this holiday season. Finally, we are taking a weoo mile road trip to Disney in January, any chance of a disney-themed passport ; )
Thanks. I will pass your site on to my other traveling friends. Love it.
Let us know how your trip to DC turns out with the passport! I am working on December’s passport because after thanksgiving our family will be traveling for the Christmas holidays. It may be a while before I get to a Disney passport, though
. I’ll probably create one when we take our kids there.
Have a great holiday!