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Keep your kids entertained on your next family vacation with this fun printable Travel Bingo game!

As you know we do a lot of traveling with our kids. This often means hours traveling with 3 small kids in a small confined space. We have found that a key to smooth travel days with our kids is making sure we are prepared. Each of our kids always travels with their own Travel bag filled with snacks and entertainment essentials (like a Kindle loaded with movies, games, and apps along with headphones). You can learn more about how to set up the perfect kids Travel bags here. 

In addition to their individual travel bags, we have found that its a great idea (especially for Car Travel days) to have some other fun games for the whole family to enjoy together. I am currently working on creating some game binders for our car but to start with I had my husband create some fun Travel Bingo cards.

You can either print out new pages for each trip so the kids can use a pen or pencil to mark off each square or laminate them so the same cards can be used over and over again with dry/wet erase markers or crayons. Personally, I plan to laminate mine.

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The Best part of Travel Bingo is that it can be played along for fun or together with the whole family. It can also be played two different ways.

• You can play in the car, marking off each square as you see each of the signs.
• We have provided a page cut out squares with all the bingo signs as well as tokens so you can play in the traditional manner.

My husband went a little over board with all the different variations for this Bingo set.  The PDF has 19 printables pages (including tokens and bingo cut out icons) with 30 different half page sized Bingo boards. This printable game is ready to print at home or at your local copy center. But That just means you have more play variations!

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Create a bingo game with our free printable travel bingo themes for every occasion. Make traveling more fun with printable bingo games and don't forget to have a look at our other fun road trip games .

You will find many different themes of free printable game cards with instructions here, created especially for you by Fun Stuff To Do, as well as some others we love!

Plus we've made it easy for you to create your own free games with our clear printable bingo grid, create any theme you wish! Have fun, enjoy your trip and we hope you enjoy playing and creating these games as much as we do!

Bingo Cards

Select one of the ready-made printable cards and print the clear grid below to create your own! Read the instructions on the printable cards and create as many cards as you wish for the number of players that will play with you. Remember: The pictures of each card for each player must be in a different order. Full instructions for this below and on the free printable pages.

How To Use The Printable Travel Bingo Cards

• Print the number of clear grid cards below for the number of players.
• Choose one of the themes: Nature, Seaside, Traffic, Countryside or Transport and print one each for the number of players. Also print one theme card for the person who will navigate the game and call out the blocks - cut out and set aside.
• For the players: Cut the theme cards out and glue to the clear grid, you can do this before hand or each player can make their own. Each clear grid must have the theme pictures in a different order.
• The game navigator now takes his/her set, mix them up and call out the cards one by one. These are pictures so the navigator can simply hold the picture up for all to see. The navigator place the cards called out one side to verify the winning line at the end.
• Have a prize ready for the first person who manage to get a straight line, up, down or across.
• Ready, set, go!

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Super for those l-o-n-g trips! Crayola comes to the rescue with travel bingo cards to color in!

Go to: CRAYOLA - or click on the image below and simply print 4 different sets of these little beauties right now!

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Mark off the heartwarming sights and shared moments that make travel memorable, from a dog wearing a sweater on a chilly adventure to tearful airport reunions that remind us of the joy of coming home.

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Free Travel Bingo Cards

Our family loves games. And road trips. And playing games on road trips. In my kids’ minds, the more competitive the challenge, the better. So I designed some FREE Travel Bingo Cards to use on our next road trip.

Which, with states starting to open again after prolonged COVID lockdowns, will hopefully happen sooner rather than later.

I made five different versions of these travel bingo cards. For younger kids who want to cooperate to get five in a row, just print multiple copies of only one design.

For older kids who’d rather race to see who can get a bingo first, print all five and let them take their pick.

If you anticipate using the cards multiple times on multiple road trips, as we do, you will need to laminate them first. ( The laminator I use is worth its weight in gold. As a homeschool mom, I use it all the time.)

Be sure to pack a few dry erase markers to use in marking the cards.

Want more fun ideas for traveling with children? Then check out my book, Pack Up & Leave . It’s chock full of tips that will make your next trip more enjoyable, economical, and educational!

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Printable Travel Bingo Cards

Road trip season is coming and if you are preparing to hit the open road with your family, you will need to bring along some entertainment like these printable travel Bingo cards .  You can probably imagine that traveling with 4 boys isn’t always a walk in the park for me.  In fact, sometimes I feel as though I can’t even make it to the grocery store with my boys without almost losing my mind.    Road trips can get loud and chaotic if I’m not prepared with something for them to do, especially when you are enclosed in a vehicle and you can’t get away from the noise!

Printable Travel Bingo

Printable Travel Bingo is fun because it can keep kids entertained while they look out the window instead of just staring at a screen the entire time you are driving.  Use candy as the game pieces or laminate your Bingo cards and use a dry-erase marker to keep track of the items that your kids spot.

I have two different travel Bingo cards available for printing and these cards are geared towards younger kids, but anyone can join in the fun! Have some little prizes or treats available for the person who gets the first Bingo of 4 in a row.  Or mix things up and give the kids a challenge of making an X in the middle of the board or getting all of the corners filled.  The great things about Bingo, is you can be as creative or even silly as you want.

I hope you love this printable travel Bingo game and if you are heading out on the open road, have a wonderful time!! 

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Printable Travel Games for Kids

By In The Playroom

July 23, 2015

Are you busy planning trips for the summer holidays? We will be staying in the UK for the whole 6 weeks holiday this year, but will be travelling around within the UK.

Travelling by train can be a great option for domestic travel, and means that we don’t need to think about parking. I just make sure to always bag the seats with the table so that the kids can be more easily entertained!

If you are travelling by train this summer, it’s worth looking at TransPennine Express for booking train tickets as they don’t charge booking fees and you can collect nectar points on your purchase. (Visit the  TransPennine  Express website for train tickets )

If you do have a train journey planned, I have five different free printable games to share with you today to keep the kids amused  while travelling. I find that these kind of activities keep my boys entertained well, and I love to see them engaged in these traditional puzzles and games.

Stock up on all kinds of printable travel games to keep the kids entertained on their journey. There is all kinds of fun that can be had with a pencil and paper

Dots and Boxes Game

How to play Dots and Boxes

Each player takes it in turns to draw a line that joins two dots, either horizontally or vertically. The dots must be next to each other, with no skipping over any dots.

When a player completes a whole box, they write their initial in the box.

When the whole grid is filled with boxes, the game is over and the person who has the most initials wins.

You can even play this game on any spare dot grid paper you may have.

Train Window Bingo

How to Play Travel Bingo

• Print the train window bingo game page
• Put a cross on the things you see out of the train window on your journey
• The first person to have a straight line of squares crossed off is the winner

The items to find in train window bingo are

• Church steeple
• Electricity pylon
• Wind turbine
• Factory chimney
• Train station
• River or lake
• Train carriage

Super Duper Maze

This is a tricky maze, find your way through the tricky super path all the way to the other side. Avoid the dead ends and see how long it takes to find your way out, using your pencil.

Train Travel Word Search

The words to find are

How many of these can you spot on your journey?

Noughts and Crosses

Noughts and crosses is a classic pencil and paper game – one of the most famous!

Rules: Win 3 games in a row to win the board.

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To download all five train travel printable activity pages in one PDF file, click the download button below.

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We hope you enjoyed these fun and free printable travel games with kids. Please share with friends and family so that everyone can enjoy these free resources! Thank you so much.

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Unfortunately all the printable links here go to the Transpennine Express website. They no longer have the games there, and recommend coming back to this website, which does not appear to have them.

I was so excited to have a UK train games version, and am disappointed my kids can’t do these on our next journey (unless I have another long hunt on Pinterest). We have 4½ hours each way to look forward to, and I’m scrambling for quiet things they/we can do.

Sorry about that! As an alternative you can right click the images to each of the games here and open them up to a new tab, and then just print the page, it will still work.

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hank you for sharing these wonderful games and printables for kids, In The Playroom! Dots and Boxes, Train Window Bingo, Super Duper Maze, and Noughts and Crosses are all fantastic activities to keGreat job on providing such fun and creative resources!ep children engaged and entertained.

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Political analysts said Mr. Sunak’s decision reflected pressure from the right of his party, where support for sending refugees to Rwanda is strong. But he spent significant political capital in the long campaign to pass the legislation and missed his self-imposed deadline of starting the flights by spring. The often bitter debate exposed rifts between Tory lawmakers, with moderates warning that the bill went too far while hard-liners complained that it did not go far enough.

In the latest act of this legislative drama, the House of Commons and its unelected counterpart, the House of Lords, kicked the legislation back and forth, as the Lords tried unsuccessfully to attach amendments to it, including one that would require an independent monitoring group to verify Rwanda was safe. On Monday, the Lords capitulated on the last of those amendments.

That cleared the way for the Commons to pass the legislation, known as the Safety of Rwanda Bill. The government said it addressed the Supreme Court’s concerns through a treaty with the Rwandans last December. But critics said the British government had still failed to guarantee that refugees could not someday be returned to their countries of origin, where they might suffer potential violence or ill-treatment.

That Mr. Johnson championed the plan was less surprising, given his bombastic, freewheeling style, which upended the cautious, evidence-based tradition of British policy-making. It was also a legacy of Brexit, for which Mr. Johnson had campaigned when he promised in 2016 to “take back control” of the country’s borders.

“Every time a small boat bounces in and you can’t get rid of the people, it is symbolic of the fact that you haven’t really taken back control,” said Ms. Rutter, who labeled the policy an “illegitimate child of Brexit.”

Before Brexit, Britain cooperated with France in nearly eliminating the flow of those who crossed the English Channel by stowing away on trucks. But Mr. Johnson’s relations with President Emmanuel Macron of France were icy — and, after leaving the European Union, Britain had fewer levers with which to pressure Paris.

At times, the British government’s desperation to curb the stream of barely seaworthy vessels seemed almost comical, such as when reports emerged that it was considering trying to repel them with giant wave machines.

The European Court of Human Rights could yet move to block the deportation flights to Rwanda. And the Labour Party has vowed to scrap the law if it comes into power. With the party far ahead in the polls, the policy may end up being remembered more as a political talking point than as a practical effort to curb the perilous crossings.

Even if Labour mothballs the plan, it could come back to haunt the party once in government, analysts said. Another law introduced last year bars those who arrived after March 2023 from claiming asylum, leaving them in limbo.

“Labour could find itself in a really tricky situation because you have these 40,000 people who are being housed in hotels at tremendous expense to the taxpayer,” said Anand Menon, a professor of European politics at King’s College London. “It’s not at all clear what you can do with them.”

The Rwanda debate, he said, reflected a broader problem for Western countries in controlling migration. Other European governments are examining the idea of processing asylum requests offshore, while not going as far as declaring that those granted refugee status should stay in those nations.

“There is a difficult discussion to be had as to whether the conventions signed in the aftermath of the Second World War are still fit for purpose,” Professor Menon said, referring to the legal protections for refugees. “The problem is that Western countries want to portray themselves as kind, generous and humanitarian — and to keep people out.”

Still, even if Britain manages to send some people to Rwanda, it seems unlikely that the policy will ever be judged a success.

“This has become so sullied now that most countries are seeing this as a massive reputational risk,” Professor Menon said, noting that even Rwanda’s flag carrier reportedly declined a British invitation to operate the flights. “It’s not a good look.”

Mark Landler is the London bureau chief of The Times, covering the United Kingdom, as well as American foreign policy in Europe, Asia and the Middle East. He has been a journalist for more than three decades. More about Mark Landler

Stephen Castle is a London correspondent of The Times, writing widely about Britain, its politics and the country’s relationship with Europe. More about Stephen Castle