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We’re excited to share our own Road Trip Scavenger Hunt Printable with you! We humbly say we’ve made something fun and funny for any family – but especially families with tweens and teens. We’re pretty sure the laughs from our road trip scavenger hunt free printable will help make the miles fly by!
Kids of all ages can be tough to entertain on long trips.
While younger kids definitely rely more on the adults in the car for everything, we’ve found that what our older kids made up for in being self-sufficient and self-entertaining also meant that we lost the family connection.
With headphones on and them plugged into movies, games, podcasts, and music (sometimes all at the same time) it can start to feel like a carpool full of strangers by the time we get to our destination.
Our road trip scavenger hunt printable for tweens and teens aims to change that.
Free Printable Road Trip Scavenger Hunt – How to use it…
This scavenger hunt can work in small bursts, so everyone still has time to do their own thing.
Or you could run down the list at the start and then have your teens and tweens maintain an eagle-eyed vigilance the whole drive.
You might find that long, talking-free times are suddenly punctuated with, “Look – A cat in car!”. It’s little moments like that that make the car time seem connected and make road trips a little more special than the usual driving to soccer or music.
And you can play this any way you want, here’s a couple of ideas:
- Make a copy for each person and play competitively with the first person to fill out their sheet getting a prize (or choice of which fast food place to get lunch at or whatever).
- Another option is to play cooperatively and have the whole family unit try and complete the one sheet together.
- You know your people best; play the way that works for your carload.
We’ve got more help for your Road Trip here:
And if you need more road trip fun ideas, check out our 25+ Free Road Trip Printables for a Truly Fun Family Car Trip – you will definitely find something for your kids’ age range and interests.
If you want more than printables, we have a field-tested 25+ Family Fun Road Trip Activities and Games to Make the Hours Fly By! ; our list of car crafts, games and activities for you to stock up on to save your sanity.
If you are new to road-tripping with your kids, we highly suggest our Family Trip Survival Guide with ideas on how to organize your car, what to keep handy and what to have as a backup plan as your journey out on the highway with kids.
Finally, once you get to your destination, we have Travel Recipes: 20+ Meals to Make in a Hotel Room Microwave or Kitchenette to help keep your vacation budget on track.
Free Road Trip Scavenger Hunt Printable
You can find more road trip fun here, too:
25+ Free Road Trip Printables for a Truly Fun Family Car Trip
