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Category Worksheet: HOLIDAY

Category Worksheet: HOLIDAY...

InstructionsAlong the top of the following grid there are some letters of the alphabet. Down the left side of the grid are a number of topics or categories. Try to write in words that fit the category and start with the letter in the top row of that column. (Under to the letter L, for the topic of ‘Automobile’ for example, you might write ‘Lexus’.) Try to fill out the grid as much as you can. ...
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Category Worksheet: SIGN

Category Worksheet: SIGN...

InstructionsAlong the top of the following grid there are some letters of the alphabet. Down the left side of the grid are a number of topics or categories. Try to write in words that fit the category and start with the letter in the top row of that column. (Under to the letter L, for the topic of ‘Automobile’ for example, you might write ‘Lexus’.) Try to fill out the grid as much as you can. ...
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Draw and Fold over

Draw and Fold over...

I have fond memories of this activity as a kid. We would often do it at church or on road trips in the car. Now all of our RadRoadTrip readers can have the fun of recreating this activity for your own kids. Our downloadable worksheet has a box with four sections. Each section of the box will be space for part of a body to be drawn by the participants. The first person will draw a head and shoulders in the top box. Then...
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Quotebox Puzzle #1

Quotebox Puzzle #1...

To solve Quote Boxes, drop the letters from each vertical column — not necessarily in the order in which they appear — into the empty squares below them to spell a quotation that reads from left to right, line by line. Black squares indicate ends of words (spaces). —————————————— ANSWER: “Every year on your birthday, you get a...
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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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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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That’s Your Ride

That’s Your Ride...

When I was young we used to go on lots of family camping and caravanning trips, and needless to say me and my brother came up with quite a few games to play. We used to drive my parents crazy by constantly asking “Are we there yet?”, but games like the following kept us quiet for a few minutes. The game is best played with at least two people. To play, each participant closes their eyes and shouts out a number...
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Yankee Doodle Song & Lyrics

Yankee Doodle Song & Lyrics...

Throughout the history of the United States, the age-old song of “Yankee Doodle” has been sung by parents and children alike. It’s catchy tune puts a smile on anyone who sings it. Although “Yankee Doodle” was a British song set out to mock the organization of the Yankee’s in early US history, it has been widely sung and enjoyed by American’s all over. “Doodle” was a term...
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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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Password Game

Password Game...

The object of this game is to get other people in the car to correctly guess a word that you are thinking of by giving them clues that suggest the word. Choose one person in the vehicle to start off as the clue giver. That person selects their word and starts to give clues (a one-word clue that somehow relates to the “password”) out to the people in the car. The clue-giver provides one clue at a time. After...
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Tic Tac Toe

Tic Tac Toe...

What would a long road trip be without at least one game of Tic-Tac-Toe. Here are the basic game play rules: 1) Draw the board to look like a # character. It needs to be big enough to write X and O letters in the spaces between each line. 2) Choose which player will be represented by X and which by O 3) Player X goes first. He or she may put an X in any of the nine sections of the grid. 4) Player O follows after X and...
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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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Winter Season Travel Passport

Winter Season Travel Passport...

We have had a lot of people ask for a winter themed passport that is not based on Christmas, since two months of the Winter Season are beyond the Christmas holiday. We aim to please, so we have created a winter themed travel activity book to keep your kids entertained on your next winter wonderland adventure. This new travel passport contains a variety of activities to keep your kids busy and involved during your family...
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License Plate Counting

License Plate Counting...

Believe it or not there are a lot of fun activities that can be done with license plates and street signs. The best thing about these games are that they require very little or even no props or materials. One such game is what we like to call counting plates. All that is required are vehicle license plates in the very low elementary level knowledge of numbers. The object of the game to count to a predetermined number by...
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Christmas Road Trip Passport

Christmas Road Trip Passport...

Christmas Road Trip Activity Book for Kids Christmas is already upon you and your preparations for the holiday have all be centered around gifts, games, and fun with the kids. However, you are headed on a road trip to visit family for the holidays and you haven’t had a moment to spare to plan to keep the kids entertained on the trip. Instead of breaking out the video games and DVD’s, print out a copy of our...
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Question Time

Question Time...

Amazon.com Widgets On your next road trip, set aside some time to put away the video games, turn off the portable DVD players, and enjoy an age old road trip activity of getting to know your fellow travelers better. In order to help facilitate you in this road trip activity, we have created a question generator for your benefit: 5 get-to-known you questions for all ages 5 get-to-known you questions for younger kids 5...
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What If?

What If?...

This is a fun get-to-know-you-better activity that the whole family can play during a road trip. There are no supplies necessary for this activity. All you have to do is come up with some creative questions for the trip. This does not have to happen before the road trip, but can take place during the trip, or even during the activity. Amazon.com Widgets Simply come up with a “What if” scenario and have...
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Which Funny Town Name is Real?

Which Funny Town Name is Real?...

The following game uses a mix of real life city names that are funny, odd, or outright strange. The object of the game is to make up two or three funny city names and then include them with one real city name. Have the people in the car try to guess which name is actually the name of a real city. We have a printable sheet of funny names that we found mostly in the United States. As a starting point, try your home state?...
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