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 TransPennineExpress 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.
Printable Travel Games for Kids
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
- Sheep
- Church steeple
- Dog
- Tunnel
- Electricity pylon
- Gate
- Tree
- Wind turbine
- Tractor
- Bird
- Cow
- Factory chimney
- Train station
- Horse
- Hay Bale
- Cloud
- Car
- House
- River or lake
- Bike
- Train carriage
- Bridge
- Plane
- Hill
- Caravan
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
- Sheep
- Ticket
- Station
- Tunnel
- Conductor
- Gate
- Bridge
- Tractor
- Cow
- Factory
- Horse
- Train
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.
More Road Trip Printables and Travel Printables for kids
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- Road Trip Printables for Kids
- Travel Bingo Free Printable Game for Kids
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Terms of use: free for personal use.
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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.
Hi KH,
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.
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.