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5 of the best road trip activities for kids

in Travel on 06/18/21

I put together a list of 5 awesome road trip activities for kids. I made sure to pick activities that are mess free and fun for everyone.

Road trip activities for kids

I have more travel toy ideas to take on an airplane or roadtrip you can see that HERE.

Table of Contents

  • 5 Road Trip Activities
    • The best tips to survive a road trip with toddlers
  • 1. Mess Free Coloring
    • Water Wow Books
    • Magnetic Coloring Pad
    • Doodle Board
  • 2. Sticker Books
  • 3. Cookie sheet with magnets
  • 4. Magnetic Maze Boards
  • 5. Electronics
    • The Best Tablet for kids
      • How to download Netflix shows to watch without wifi
    • My Toddler Boys Favorite Apps
    • Scree Free Audio Player
  • Don’t forget to pin these road trip tips to your favorite Pinterest board
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5 Road Trip Activities

I put together a list of the best road trip activities for your kids. These are some activities I have personally done on our road trips and I’m planning on doing these activities again for our road trip this summer.

The best tips to survive a road trip with toddlers

The Best Tips to Survive a Road Trip With Toddlers

1. Mess Free Coloring

The best tip I could give for a long road trip is to avoid messy activities. Kids love to color, but dealing with markers and crayons can be such a mess and you lose lids everywhere. These three different coloring activities are mess free so you don’t have to worry about getting your car dirty and the kids love them!

Water Wow Books

These Water Wow books are absolutely brilliant. All you need is water in the pen and your kids can color pictures for hours and there is no mess. My boys absolutely love these! You can find a lot of these in the dollar section at Target.

Magnetic Coloring Pad

You can never go wrong with the magnetic coloring pad. My boys love to bring this with them on our long road trips and the best part is no mess. I also love that the pen is attached to the pad so I don’t have to worry about it falling in between seats and losing it.

Doodle Board

This is another great option for older kids. It’s mess free and kids can draw on this for hours.

2. Sticker Books

You can never go wrong with sticker books and my boys love them. Target has a lot of different sticker books in their dollar section that would be perfect for entertaining your kids on a long road trip. Some sticker books even have activities so your kids can have fun and learn at the same time.

3. Cookie sheet with magnets

These cookie sheets are great for road trip activities. I bought these cookie sheets at the dollar store and then got some of our magna tiles to go with it. My boys will play with the tiles on top of the sheet or drive their cars on top of the cookie sheet as well. I also bought road tape so they could drive their cars. You can use this for a lot of different activities and my boys love it. They even used it as a tray for eating or coloring.

Link to road tape


4. Magnetic Maze Boards

These magnetic maze boards are perfect for road trip activities. The best part is no losing little pieces and it’s so fun for your kids. Some of these are great because they are learning while they are playing.

1. Water board // 2. Alphabet board // 3. Apple Tree // 4. Number

5. Electronics

The last road trip activity is of course the ipad or Amazon Fire tablet. I try and have my kids go as long as possible before I get the tablets out. At some point in the drive my kids have played with most of the activities and I need to get the tablets out to survive the rest of the trip. I listed some of the tablets I use and some apps my boys love to play with.

The Best Tablet for kids

Read my full blog post “The Best Tablets for kids” to see what iPads I use for my boys and other options for tablets. I did a full review on the best tablets for kids I love being able to download some of their favorite Netflix shows onto the iPad before we leave so they can watch when we don’t have wifi. I also make sure all their favorite apps are up to date as well.

The best kids tablet: iPad

How to download Netflix shows to watch without wifi

My Toddler Boys Favorite Apps

Click on the picture below to take you to my blog post where I share my favorite toddler apps for kids.

The Best Toddler Apps

Scree Free Audio Player

I take the Yoto player on all of our road trips. It lets you connect headphones and your kids can listen to audiobooks or music. See my full review by clicking on the picture below.

The best screen free audio player // Yoto Player Review

Hope these road trip activities help entertain your kids and make the trip more fun!

Don’t forget to pin these road trip tips to your favorite Pinterest board

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Justin’s parents took the boys to visit Justin’s gravesite on Memorial Day. They shared this video of the boys going around picking up all the flower pots that had fallen over. My heart 😭❤️🥹 had to share #memorialday #memorialdayweekend #lossofalovedone
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