Grade: 4-6 | Road Trip Ideas and Games

Rebus Teaser #8...

Rebus Puzzles are popular word picture puzzles with hidden meanings. You use their pictures and words to try to solve the meaning. They are often common phrases. —————————————— ANSWER: “big bad...

Word Squeeze: Thanksgiving...

The following word or words below have been streched to be tall and squeezed to be narrow. Can you tell what word or words this used to be? Solution (in reverse):...

Mad Lib – Super Thief gets Foiled by Clerk...

MadLib Please fill in the following: [1] Name of a Super Hero_________________________ [2] A verb ending in ‘ed’_________________________ [3] An adjective_________________________ [4] A day of the week_________________________ [5] A noun_________________________ [6] The name of a place_________________________ [7] A common household item_________________________ [8] An adjective_________________________ [9]...

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. ...

Rebus Teaser #7...

Rebus Puzzles are popular word picture puzzles with hidden meanings. You use their pictures and words to try to solve the meaning. They are often common phrases. —————————————— ANSWER: “Man...

Mad Lib – Wild Thing...

MadLib Please fill in the following: [1] A US State_________________________ [2] Color_________________________ [3] An animal_________________________ [4] A verb ending in ‘ed’_________________________ [5] The name of a building_________________________ [6] A verb ending in ‘ed’_________________________ [7] The name of some food_________________________ [8] Past tense...

Word Squeeze: Pumpkin...

The following word or words below have been streched to be tall and squeezed to be narrow. Can you tell what word or words this used to be? Solution (in reverse):...

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. ...

Rebus Teaser #6...

Rebus Puzzles are popular word picture puzzles with hidden meanings. You use their pictures and words to try to solve the meaning. They are often common...

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...

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...

Boundary Letter Puzzle A/E/5...

What 5 letter words can you think of that start with ‘a’ and end with ‘e’?We came up with 43 possibilities.____________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________ ____________________ Our answers have been listed below in reverse form so you don’t...

Rebus Teaser #5...

Rebus Puzzles are popular word picture puzzles with hidden meanings. You use their pictures and words to try to solve the meaning. They are often common phrases. —————————————— ANSWER: “Space...

Word Squeeze: Halloween...

The following word or words below have been streched to be tall and squeezed to be narrow. Can you tell what word or words this used to be? Solution (in reverse):...

Maryland Cities Wordsearch Single Spiral...

Find the following in the word search puzzle...

Boundary Letter Puzzle A/E/4...

What 4 letter words can you think of that start with ‘a’ and end with ‘e’?We came up with 13 possibilities.____________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________ ____________________ Our answers have been listed below in reverse form so you don’t...

Maryland Dots Game Board...

One child connects two of the dots with a vertical or horizontal line (no diagonals). Now your other child connects two of the dots. The children keep taking turns until a square is formed. The child who completes the square gets to put his or her initial in it, and gets to go again Keep taking turns until all the dots on the grid are connected. Count up each player’s initials on the grid. The one with the most squares...

Rebus Teaser #4...

Rebus Puzzles are popular word picture puzzles with hidden meanings. You use their pictures and words to try to solve the meaning. They are often common phrases. —————————————— ANSWER: “Bigger &...

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...

Maryland Flag...

Color the following picture by using the number codes. Each number represents a color. Key: 1) Red 2) Yellow 3)...

Boundary Letter Puzzle A/E/3...

What 3 letter words can you think of that start with ‘a’ and end with ‘e’?We came up with 9 possibilities.____________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________ ____________________ Our answers have been listed below in reverse form so you don’t...

Building Words...

This game is a fun one for players who can read and spell. The Person A first writes down a letter (or says a letter, if there is no easy access to pen and paper). The next person adds a letter that can make up a word. The next player adds another letter, again working towards spelling out a word. Next player adds another letter, and so on, until nobody can add another letter. If you think the last player who added a letter...

Word Squeeze: Trees...

The following word or words below have been streched to be tall and squeezed to be narrow. Can you tell what word or words this used to be? Solution (in reverse):...

Boundary Letter Puzzle A/D/6...

What 6 letter words can you think of that start with ‘a’ and end with ‘d’?We came up with 19 possibilities.____________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________ ____________________ Our answers have been listed below in reverse form so you don’t...

Puzzles, Shirts, and a Family Reunion...

Four cousins are headed separately to the big family reunion. Each one had to wake up at a different time to get dressed. Each one wore a different colored shirt and brought along their favorite type of puzzle from RadRoadTrips.com to do in the car. Find out what time each cousin woke up, what colored shirt they wore, and what puzzle they brought to do along the way. Use the following clues to solve the Logic Puzzle: The...

Cryptogram Quote: Friends and Songs...

Solution: “A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and sings it back to you when you have forgotten how it goes.” ...

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...

Boundary Letter Puzzle A/C/6...

What 6 letter words can you think of that start with ‘a’ and end with ‘c’?We came up with 8 possibilities.____________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________ ____________________ Our answers have been listed below in reverse form so you don’t...

Word Squeeze: Vacation...

The following word or words below have been streched to be tall and squeezed to be narrow. Can you tell what word or words this used to be? Solution (in reverse):...

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...

Boundary Letter Puzzle A/B/6...

What 6 letter words can you think of that start with ‘a’ and end with ‘b’?We came up with 5 possibilities.____________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________ ____________________ Our answers have been listed below in reverse form so you don’t...

Mad Lib – The Juno Spacecraft...

MadLib Please fill in the following: [1] A man’s name_________________________ [2] A number_________________________ [3] Name of a Month_________________________ [4] A Year in the past_________________________ [5] An adjective_________________________ [6] A big number_________________________ [7] A number_________________________ [8] A plural noun_________________________ [9] A plural...

Cryptogram Quote: Dare to Do...

Solution: “The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.” -Dale Carnegie ...

Boundary Letter Puzzle A/A/6...

What 6 letter words can you think of that start with ‘a’ and end with ‘a’?We came up with 13 possibilities.____________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________ ____________________ Our answers have been listed below in reverse form so you don’t...

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...

School Supplies Crossword...

Across: 1. To fix. 5. To take something that does not belong to you. 6. This is used to fix your writing mistakes. 7. Something that you hope doesn’t happen to you while you are driving on a trip. 11. The male parent of either one’s mother or father. 12. A semi liquid substance that is used to adhere items to paper. Down: 2. A grouping. For example, one set of cookies that are baked together. 3. One of the...

Random Words Crossword...

Across: 1. One of the innumerable luminous bodies seen in the heavens; any heavenly body other than the sun, moon 2. To imagine to be guilty, upon slight evidence, or without proof 4. The male parent of either one’s mother or father. 6. To take something that does not belong to you. 7. Not to hide, but to reveal to the world. 5. The opposite of light or bright. 9. A grouping. For example, one set of cookies that are...

Cryptogram Quote: Live for America...

Solution: If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace. ~Hamilton Fish ...

Boundary Letter Puzzle A/D/4...

What 4 letter words can you think of that start with ‘a’ and end with ‘d’?We came up with 7 possibilities.____________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________ ____________________ Our answers have been listed below in reverse form so you don’t...

Mad Lib – Our New Cousin...

MadLib Please fill in the following: [1] A number_________________________ [2] The name of a state_________________________ [3] Type of car_________________________ [4] The name of a second state_________________________ [5] A noun_________________________ [6] An adjective_________________________ [7] Name of a sibling_________________________ [8] Something embarrassing ending in -ed_________________________ [9] The...

Cryptogram Quote: Freedom’s dream...

Cryptogram...

Boundary Letter Puzzle A/A/4...

What 4 letter words can you think of that start with ‘a’ and end with ‘a’?We came up with 5 possibilities.____________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________ ____________________ Our answers have been listed below in reverse form so you don’t...

Boundary Letter Puzzle A/D/3...

What 3 letter words can you think of that start with ‘a’ and end with ‘d’?We came up with 3 possibilities.____________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________...

Whose Music is it?...

John, Chloe, Ryker, and Fin are all on separate road trips. For child, you are to determine what type of music they are listening to as well as the age and color of car they are traveling in. Use the following clues to solve the Logic Puzzle: Neither John nor Ryker are traveling in a white vehicle. The 7 year old car is white. John is listening to Jazz Between the person listening to Pop and Chloe, one is traveling in a...

A Washington DC Visit...

Aliece, Ava, Miles, and Levi are traveling with their grandparents to do a tour of Washington, DC. They are each going on different months in the same year. Each one is staying in a hotel in different cities. In order to prepare for the trip each one has to write a report on a different memorial or location near Washington, DC. For each child, determine their month of travel, the city they are staying in, and what monument...

Cryptogram Quote: Making of a country...

Cryptogram...

New Travel Pet...

Avary, Miles, Karli, and Jace all purchased a stuffed animal to take with them on their trip. Your mission is to determine what kind of animal was purchased, how much was paid, and what name was given to the toy animal by each child. Use the following clues to solve the Logic Puzzle: Of Avary and Jace, one paid $12 and the other purchased a Dog. The child who purchased a Pig is not Miles. Avary did not name her...

Cryptogram Quote: American Essence...

Cryptogram...

Boundary Letter Puzzle A/A/3...

What 3 letter words can you think of that start with ‘a’ and end with ‘a’?We came up with 1 possibility.____________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________...

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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