Free Road Trip Scavenger Hunt Printable for Kids
Bingo & I-Spy Included
Looking for an easy way to keep kids entertained in the car? Long car rides can be challenging for kids and parents alike. It’s easy to just hand them an iPad or another device for entertainment, but isn’t the whole point of family vacations and summer road trips to spend time together?
Road trip games like scavenger hunts, road trip bingo, and I-Spy are great ways to keep kids entertained while encouraging them to look out the window, enjoy family time, and have fun along the way.
In this post, I’m sharing free road trip scavenger hunt printables, plus road trip bingo and an I-Spy sheet. I’ve included toddler, kid, and teen versions so the whole family can play.
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Free Road Trip Scavenger Hunt Printable for Kids
These free road trip scavenger hunt printables for kids turn long car rides into a fun game. With different printables designed for various age groups, the whole family can join the fun. Kids simply keep their eyes open for common sights along the road and check them off as they spot them. There are even separate versions for city drives and longer scenic road trips, so kids won’t get frustrated trying to find items that might not appear on every route.
Toddler Road Trip Scavenger Hunt
The best road trip scavenger hunt for toddlers needs to be simple and picture-based with large images that they can easily recognize. Younger kids love pointing out familiar things they see outside the window, so using clear pictures allows them to participate even if they can’t read yet.
Good items for a toddler scavenger hunt include things like trucks, stop signs, trees, traffic lights, buses, and animals. Because these are common sights along highways and city streets, they’re usually successful - easy to spot and mark off. Let them use crayons, stickers, or simply point to the items they find.
Download the toddler scavenger hunt printable and print at least one copy for each child before your trip so everyone can play.To make it easy, bring a clipboard or sturdy book for kids to write on. You can even laminate the scavenger hunt sheet and use dry-erase markers so it can be reused over and over since kids love to keep playing the same game more than once.
Road Trip Scavenger Hunt for Young Kids & Pre-Teens (City Drives vs. Scenic Routes)
Young kids and pre-teens are often the easiest age group to keep entertained on a road trip. They’re old enough to recognize a wider variety of sights along the road, but still young enough to enjoy simple games and challenges. For this age group, scavenger hunts can include a mix of common roadside items and slightly harder-to-find objects to keep things interesting.
You can download the young kids/pre-teen scavenger hunt printables in two different versions—one designed for city drives and another for longer road trips and scenic routes. The city version focuses on things you’re more likely to see in towns or urban areas, such as traffic lights, buses, or tall buildings. The scenic drive version includes items like mountains, lakes, farms, or wildlife that are more common on highways, scenic byways, and rural roads.
Having two versions helps prevent frustration if certain items aren’t visible on your route, and it keeps kids engaged as they watch for new sights along the way. Simply print a copy for each child before your trip and let them check off items as they spot them during the drive.
Teen Road Trip Scavenger Hunt
Older kids and teens can be much harder to entertain on long car rides, so their road trip scavenger hunt needs a bit more of a challenge. Instead of focusing on common sights, a teen scavenger hunt should include items that are harder to find or require a little more creativity to spot. This keeps them engaged and encourages them to pay closer attention to their surroundings during the drive.
You can also turn the scavenger hunt into a photo challenge by having teens take pictures of the items instead of simply checking boxes. This adds an interactive element and makes the game feel more like a fun competition. Teens might enjoy searching for things like unusual roadside attractions, interesting murals, unique road signs, or license plates from different states.
A photo scavenger hunt works especially well for longer road trips because teens can use their phones or cameras to document what they find, creating a fun collection of travel memories by the time you reach your destination.
How to Download and Print the Road Trip Scavenger Hunt
Downloading the road trip scavenger hunt printables is easy. Simply click the download button for each one and save it as a PDF on your device.
For longer road trips, you can laminate the sheets and use dry-erase markers so kids can reuse them over and over again as well as on future trips.
📌Pro Tip: Print the bingo card and I-Spy sheets below as well so kids can rotate between games during long drives.
Free Road Trip Bingo Printable
Road trip bingo is another fun car game for kids. Instead of checking off items in a list, players compete by trying to be the first to complete a row of things they’ve spotted along the drive.
This is great for siblings and especially fun and easy for kids ages 4-10.
To make it easy to play on your next road trip, download my free Road Trip Bingo printable.
Road Trip I-Spy Sheet for Kids
An I-Spy sheet is perfect for younger kids because it’s simple and visual. They can search for colors, shapes, and familiar objects along the way. Some fun and easy I-Spy prompts include:
something red
something blue
something round
something tall
something moving
something with wheels
something flying
something shiny
To make it easy to play on your next road trip, download my free I-Spy Road Trip Printable.
Tips for Using Road Trip Printables
Here are some practical and useful tips for using these road trip printables.
Print extra copies before leaving - more than one copy per kid.
Bring a clip board or a hard book for each kid to use for writing on.
Laminate the printables so they can be used repeatedly and bring dry erase pens and something to wipe them off with (paper towel, wet wipe, or get the pens with erasers built-in on the tips).
Bring a variety of crayons and pencils.
Offer a small prize for the winner especially if younger kids are playing.
Rotate between the games to prevent boredom - scavenger hunt, bingo, and I-Spy.
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