Printable Road Trip Games – Pencil Sheets for the Car

Q: Can a child who cannot read yet play?

Partly. With Ages 5 to 7 chosen, the sheets keep letters to find, colors to tally and shapes to spot. A grown-up reads each line aloud once, and the child makes the marks.

How it works

These printable road trip games are five pencil sheets: a sign alphabet, a car color tally, road sign shapes, trip predictions and a trip log. Pick one below, then press Print this list before the car is packed.

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Sign alphabet shows first; the other four games are in the box below the button. On paper every game has its rules at the top and a box beside each line. Covers left closed turn into blanks for writing, and what they hide prints at the end.

Printable road trip games for kids

More filters, the last choice in the box, shows an Ages row. On Ages 5 to 7 a game holds only what a young child can do by looking out the window after a grown-up reads the line aloud once: letters to find, colors to tally, the plainest shapes.

Tips

Print the predictions for every seat. Guesses go down before the car moves.
The trip log is the one sheet to keep: it reads as a diary of the day.

Questions and answers

What road trip games can you print?

Five are here: a sign alphabet from A to Z, a tally of car colors, road sign shapes to spot, predictions to write before leaving, and a trip log to fill in on the way. Each needs only a pencil.

How does the sign alphabet game work?

Find the letter A on a sign outside the car and write the word it was in, then B, and on to Z. Each Show answer cover holds words to look for, such as Exit for X.

What do the road sign shapes mean?

An octagon is a stop sign and a triangle with one point down is a yield sign. A diamond is a warning, a pennant marks a no passing zone, and a circle or a crossbuck means a railroad crossing.

Can a child who cannot read yet play?

Partly. With Ages 5 to 7 chosen, the sheets keep letters to find, colors to tally and shapes to spot. A grown-up reads each line aloud once, and the child makes the marks.

All 75 lines

Sign alphabet 26

Sign alphabet: A Look for: Ahead, Airport, Avenue.
Sign alphabet: B Look for: Bridge, Bump, Bus.
Sign alphabet: C Look for: Crossing, Curve, Center.
Sign alphabet: D Look for: Detour, Dead End, Do Not Enter.
Sign alphabet: E Look for: Exit, East, End.
Sign alphabet: F Look for: Food, Fuel, Freeway.
Sign alphabet: G Look for: Gas, Garage, Go.
Sign alphabet: H Look for: Highway, Hospital, Hill.
Sign alphabet: I Look for: Interstate, Inn, Information.
Sign alphabet: J Look for: Junction, or a town that starts with J.
Sign alphabet: K Look for: Keep Right, Keep Left.
Sign alphabet: L Look for: Lane, Left, Lodging.
Sign alphabet: M Look for: Merge, Mile, Museum.
Sign alphabet: N Look for: North, Next, No Parking.
Sign alphabet: O Look for: One Way, Only, Open.
Sign alphabet: P Look for: Parking, Pass, Park.
Sign alphabet: Q Look for: Quarry, Quality, or a Q inside a word such as Square.
Sign alphabet: R Look for: Rest Area, Right, Railroad.
Sign alphabet: S Look for: Stop, Speed Limit, South.
Sign alphabet: T Look for: Truck, Toll, Turn.
Sign alphabet: U Look for: U-Turn, Use, Under.
Sign alphabet: V Look for: Vehicles, Visitor, Village.
Sign alphabet: W Look for: West, Work, Wrong Way.
Sign alphabet: X Look for: Exit, Next, or Xing on a crossing sign.
Sign alphabet: Y Look for: Yield, Your, Yard.
Sign alphabet: Z Look for: Zone, Zoo, Pizza.

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Car color tally 10

Tally: black cars Sample: 27 marks.
Tally: blue cars Sample: 15 marks.
Tally: brown or tan cars Sample: 6 marks.
Tally: green cars Sample: 4 marks.
Tally: orange cars Sample: 1, a moving truck.
Tally: purple or pink cars Sample: None all day.
Tally: red cars Sample: 12 marks.
Tally: silver or gray cars Sample: 40, the winner.
Tally: white cars Sample: 31 marks by lunch.
Tally: yellow cars Sample: 2, both of them buses.

Road sign shapes 9

Sign shape: circle Answer: the warning sign ahead of a railroad crossing.
Sign shape: crossbuck, two boards in an X Answer: a railroad crossing.
Sign shape: diamond Answer: a warning sign.
Sign shape: octagon Answer: a stop sign. No other sign has this shape.
Sign shape: pennant, a long triangle on its side Answer: a no passing zone sign.
Sign shape: pentagon with the point up Answer: a school warning sign. County route markers are pentagons too.
Sign shape: rectangle or square Answer: a sign with a rule on it, such as a speed limit, or a guide sign.
Sign shape: trapezoid Answer: a recreation or cultural interest area sign, or a national forest route marker.
Sign shape: triangle with one point down Answer: a yield sign.

Trip predictions 15

How many bridges do we cross? Sample: Seven.
How many motorcycles pass us? Sample: Five.
How many stops do we make before we arrive? Sample: Three.
How many trains do we see? Sample: Two.
How many tunnels do we drive through? Sample: None.
What color is the first truck that passes us? Sample: Red.
What is pictured on the first billboard? Sample: A giant sandwich.
What is the first animal we see? Sample: A cow.
What is the weather when we arrive? Sample: Sunny and windy.
What time do we get there? Sample: Ten past four.
Which seat ends up with the most crumbs? Sample: The middle one.
Which state's plates do we see most, after our own? Sample: Ohio.
Who is asleep when we pull in? Sample: The dog.
Who says "are we there yet" first? Sample: The driver.
Who spots the first water tower? Sample: Maya.

Trip log 15

A joke from the back seat Sample: "Is that cow real?"
An animal I did not expect to see Sample: A llama.
The best thing I saw out the window Sample: A field of sunflowers.
The first town we drove through Sample: Millbrook.
The longest bridge or tunnel of the day Sample: The bridge over the river, before lunch.
The number of stops we made Sample: Four.
One word for today's drive Sample: Long.
The out-of-state plate I liked best Sample: Alaska.
The song we played the most Sample: The one Dad knows half the words to.
The strangest sign we passed Sample: One for a corn maze, in March.
We got there at this time Sample: A quarter to five.
We left at this time Sample: 7:40 in the morning.
What I ate there Sample: Pancakes.
What we did as soon as the doors opened Sample: Stretched, then ran to the water.
Where we stopped to eat Sample: A diner with a rooster on the roof.

How this list was compiled: Written for this site on 2026-10-02 by the gamenightgenerator editors: five pencil games for a car ride, with invented sample answers that describe no real person. Own work; nothing was copied from another site. The nine sign shapes and what each is used for follow Table 2A-1, Use of Sign Shapes, in Section 2A.05 of the 11th edition (December 2023) of the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices on the Federal Highway Administration's site (mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov, a United States government work), read on 2026-10-02. The words under Sign alphabet are suggestions of what to look for, not a list of official sign wordings. Licence: own work