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Idaho Dots Game Board

Idaho Dots Game Board...

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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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Roadside Alphabet Game

Roadside Alphabet Game...

A fun game that you can play with school age children as well as adults while travelling is making use of the things you see outside of your car window using the alphabet. Consider that you are starting with the letter ‘A’, everyone in the family will try to spot something passes by while on travelling and that will start with ‘A’. Continue from ‘a’ to ‘z’. If you have to choose ‘Q’ and ‘X’ that...
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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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Summer Travel Passport for Kids

Summer Travel Passport for Kids...

Your kids have worked hard getting up early to catch their bus, or walk the sidewalk trail to that big brick school building for the past nine months. They have sat through lecture after lecture and brought home mountains of homework and projects. Now that the sun is shining brighter in the evenings and the temperatures are rising, school is ready to let out for the summer, and your kids are ready to take advantage of...
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Winter Holiday Activity Book

Winter Holiday Activity Book...

Have a holly jolly Christmas, and a very happy New Year! We just finished up our Winter Holiday Activity Book for the kids for this year’s family travels. Since we already had a travel book for Thanksgiving & Christmas from last year, we created a general, winter-based holiday book. There are over 30 pages of activities, games, and discussion items for your kids to dive into on your upcoming road trip. Stay safe...
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Christmas Carols Songbook

Christmas Carols Songbook...

We hope that you will get the kids together and do some caroling during the Christmas Season. In preparation for our upcoming road trip in a week from now, we have created a Christmas Carols Songbook for the kids. A perfect travel companion during the Christmas holiday: our free, printable songbook features lyrics for some of the most popular and beloved Christmas songs: “Away in a Manger,” “Hark! The...
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Reversal Word Game

Reversal Word Game...

Reversal (or Reverse-It) is a fun little word game that you can change and adapt with every different game. Instructions: You need at least two players for this game. You will play two rounds. ROUND 1: You will choose a topic for this round. It could be names of people you know, names of places, names of famous people, names of foods, etc. The object of Round 1 is to find a correct word or two words (eg. For names:...
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Soda Killer? – Brain Teaser

Soda Killer? – Brain Teaser...

Dihydrogen monoxide is and chemical compound that can kill you if you ingest too much of it, corrode metals, dissolve some solids, is part of acid rain, and is used by many industrial chemical plants. However, it is also a very important ingredient to most soda pops. How can this be? ANSWER: Dihydrogen monoxide is the chemical name for H2O – what we call...
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Jotto – Word Game

Jotto – Word Game...

If any of you have played the board game by the name of “Mastermind”, then you will catch on to this verbal word game very quickly. All you need for this game is some paper and a pencil. The game is designed around two players, but you could modify it a bit for more players if desired. The object of the game is to guess your opponent’s secret word through a series of word guesses and logic. To begin, each...
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Mixed up Utah Cities

Mixed up Utah Cities...

Unscramble the names of some of Utah’s cities below. For some help, feel free to use the list of possible city names. Click on the image for a full resolution viewAlpine Beaver Clearfield Cleveland Clinton Coalville Cove Draper Elmo Elsinore Goshen Layton Logan Midvale Millville Morgan Neola Nephi Oakley Paragonah Perry Provo Randlett Salina Snowville Spring City Springdale Tooele Topaz Toquerville Val...
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Quotebox Activity – Part of the Utah State Song

Quotebox Activity – Part of the Utah State S...

The following quote box puzzle is an excerpt from the Utah State Song. 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). ...
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Rebus Teaser #3

Rebus Teaser #3...

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: “Top...
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Too many candy bars

Too many candy bars...

On a long road trip your parents pass back a bucket of 23 candy bars for all of the passengers. You take seven of the candy bars. Before you pass it on to your sister, you decide that you want a few more so you take half of what’s left in the bucket. You start to feel guilty right away, so you put back one third of the candy bars that you had taken out of the bucket. How many candy bars are now in the...
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Rebus Teaser #2...

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: “Peace on...
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Crytogram Puzzle – Brigham Young Quote

Crytogram Puzzle – Brigham Young Quote...

The section below contains a secret phrase.  Each of the blanks has a number underneath it.  Fill in the letters that correspond to the numbers below the blanks to solve the phrase. At the bottom of the page there is a KEY that lists all the letters from A thru Z with a box below.  Each of the letters has a corresponding number to help you keep track of the coded letters that you have...
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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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Utah Stereogram – A City in Utah

Utah Stereogram – A City in Utah...

A stereogram is a two-dimensional picture that has a 3-D image hidden in it. To find the hidden image you must turn the picture lengthwise and then focus your eyes through the paper. Pretend that you are looking through the page to the distant background. This causes you to switch from “near point” to “far point” vision and will allow the hidden image to come into view. Some useful steps that are...
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Utah for Kids: Pre-History

Utah for Kids: Pre-History...

Utah is rich in archaeological sites.  Despite much of the state being in a desert climate, there have been many people and cultures that have settled in the state. The first people that lived in the area are called PaleoIndians.  Paleo is the Greek word for “Old”.  Therefore, they are known as the “Old Indians”.  These people hunted animals found in the area—such as the Mammoth. About 8,000 years ago, the...
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Utah for Kids – The American Indian

Utah for Kids – The American Indian...

Utah had many different Native American tribes calling the land their home during its history.  Some of those tribes include the Shoshone, Navajo, Goshute, Paiute, and Ute. The Navajo Indians were more isolated than the other tribes.  They had their own distinct language and raised animals for their food.  The other tribes were more like hunters and gatherers. Since the Ute Indian tribe roamed the majority of the land that...
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Rebus Teaser #1

Rebus Teaser #1...

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: “Over the river and through the...
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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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License Plate 21

License Plate 21...

Each person in the car looks for a license plate on a vehicle where the digits on that plate add up to, or exceed 21. For example, a license plate of ABC89L5 would total 22. You can either play that the person who exceeds 21 and has the highest total wins the round, or you could stick to the game of exceeding 21 and being the closest to 21. Keep a running total to see who wins in the end. We will often choose a winner...
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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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Funny City Names

Funny City Names...

The following sheet of city names is one that we compiled where we thought the name of the city was humorous in one way or another. This printable worksheet can be used by some activities or games that are highlighted on our website. Alabama Section, Alabama (MAP) Burnt Corn, Alabama (MAP) Alaska Dead Horse, Alaska (MAP) Mary's Igloo, Alaska...
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G-H-O-S-T

G-H-O-S-T...

Don’t let the title scare you. There is actually very little in this game that should cause a fright. Actually, I am not sure where it got the name, but it has stuck among those game players that like to trick each other with words. This game can be played with two or more players in the car. You really don’t need any other instruments to play this game other than possibly a piece of paper to keep track of the...
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Funny Towns Atlas Activity

Funny Towns Atlas Activity...

If your kids have an atlas at their disposal during a trip, the following activity could entertain them for quite some time. Simply have the kids turn their atlas to a particular state. Then have them all try to find the funniest city names for that state. Have them share their findings with all of the occupants in the car. As a starting point, try your home state? We know of funny names in Idaho, North Carolina,...
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