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Summer is winding down, but that doesn't mean your road trips come to an end! We take several road trips through the year, not just during summer. A successful road trip in our eyes means everyone arrives happy! This is much easier to do with snacks, drinks, and plenty of activities to keep the kids entertained.
Of course, we'll have the DVD player in the car and Charlie has a tablet, but screens don't entertain little ones the entire time. We created a travel binder that can stay in the car that is perfect for road trips.
To create your travel binder, you'll need a zip-around binder to store all of your activities for the road. Inside that binder, you're going to put a couple of clear zipper pouches and clear sheet protectors. Now, grab a some dry erase crayons, an eraser, and some printable sheets and you're all set!
I've created 3 free printables for your new travel binder!
My suggestion is to use a laminator to laminate any sheets you would like to reuse often. I sent all 3 of my sheets that I'm sharing with you through my laminator to preserve them. By laminating them, Charlie can use the dry erase crayons on them, wipe them off, and reuse them over and over again!
If you'd like to just print out some sheets to color once or twice with dry erase crayons, you can slide them into a sheet protector. Some great sites to grab free coloring pages and activities: LEGO Marvel Superheroes, Disney Family, and Crayola.
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Now that I've got you thinking about that new car for your road trip, you'll need some snacking supplies! You know how we feel about our snacks! At ACME right now, there are a ton of snacks perfect for road trips. You'll find them labeled Best Road Trip Ever under the normal price sticker.
Personally, a Mountain Dew is essential to me surviving a road trip (or any day, really). Some people are coffee people, but I need a Dew. I do like cans best, but they don't travel as well, so we buy bottles for the road. The boys get water or juice pouches, so some Capri Suns were a great item to grab before hitting the road. Everyone can use a Gatorade, so the little bottles are perfect for travelling. As far as snacks go, we bought some individual pre-portioned snack bags for the boys because they were on sale, but I also grabbed some Wheat Thins (they are definitely one of my favorite munchies), some caramel Quaker Popped Mini Rice Snacks and some Snickers Bites (we'll keep them hidden upfront with us).
Do you have any favorites you bring on your road trips? We like to have a little bit of everything!
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Kelly @eclecticmommy says
Love the idea of a travel binder. Laminated coloring pages is genius! #client
Jessica says
A travel binder is such a great idea! And, my kids would love the i spy game! Can’t wait to make this! Thanks so much for the great idea!
Tanya @ Mom's Small Victories says
Very clever, we could have used these on our trip to Florida this summer! Thanks for sharing with Small Victories Sunday Linkup. Pinning to our linkup board and hope you found some great posts to visit this week!
April Ockerman says
I am going to save this post and share with my sister. She has little ones that could use this to keep them occupied in the car. Love it!
Kallee says
Our best road trip was when we went and visited Niagra Falls!
Sarah G. says
Love these ideas for road trips! Thanks for sharing!
Laurie says
I wish I still had little people to use these fun printables!
Diana Rambles says
This is a really great idea. Love it!
Ashley S says
Love this! Definitely printing them out for my lil guy.
Jeannie @ For what it's worth says
Your printable is adorable, wish we’d had a binder like yours while we were making so many trips to Dr. trips this summer.
Censie says
What a fun idea! I am going to save this! I could see this coming in handy for road trips. So cute!
Chelley @ A is For Adelaide says
I love the idea of a travel binder! We go on a big road trip twice a year for doctor appointments for my oldest- I”m going to make her one of these for our next trip.
Shasta L Walton says
We love road trips and these printables are such a fun idea.
Gina says
We have a couple of “regulars” for road trips: beef jerky (everyone loves it and we only eat it on road trips), Chex Mix (not something I normally buy), and stopping for a Slurpee somewhere along the way.
Samantha says
LOVE these printables!
Tiffany says
I agree that screens don’t keep kids busy for long so having something like the acitvity binder is such a great idea. Plus hands on fun is long-lsting fun! I would definitely include Snickers bites in my Road Trip fun since I love how easy they are to snack on and how quickly they can keep hunger under control…
Jenne says
I like to bring gatorade and cheetos on road trips. Wipes for the cheesy fingers too!
Melanie says
Oh I love the idea of a travel binder, so cool. Need to do that for my kids! We always bring gatorade along something that all the kids like, too
Jane @SustainMyCraftHabit says
So great! I love this! Thank you for the printables!
Stopping by from Show and Tell Link Party.
Angela Bishop says
I love the zipper binder idea! I don’t trust my kids with not coloring all over my car or themselves so I bring a lot magnetic activities. 🙂
Mary, Living a Sunshine Life says
That printable binder is a fantastic idea. I think I might do that for some of our homeschooling worksheets. The girls love to work on that stuff while we travel and the lamination makes it a lot sturdier for the car. Thanks for sharing!
Audrey says
What a cute printable for little ones! We haven’t done a long road trip in a few years, but holidays are coming.
Thanks for sharing on Creative K Kids Tasty Tuesdays.
Jennie @ The Diary of a Real Housewife says
These are perfect! My boys would really enjoy the printables, I guess I need a travel binder now! Thanks for sharing on Friday Favorites! I featured your post and would love to see you there again this week. (Thursday 8est)
Nina Lewis says
I’m dropping by from the Ginger Snap Crafts link party. This is such a great idea — and a life saver for parents of fussy young travelers!
I have a link party that I am trying to grow. I invite you to share this ideas (and a couple of other ones) at my Grandma Ideas Sharing Time link party at http://grandmaideas.com. My readers would love this idea as much as I do!
My link party goes from Wednesday through Friday night at midnight Mountain Daylight Time. I hope that you will be able to make it.
All the best,
Nina
Julian Green says
What a fun idea! I am going to save this! I could see this coming in handy for road trips. So cute!