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Make Your Own Coloring Book
With over 750 pictures to choose from, The Trip Clip can keep your young artist busy for a long time! What makes it even better than a traditional coloring book is that you can choose the exact pictures you want to include in your coloring book based your child's age and interests. Choose a Theme … Continue reading Make Your Own Coloring Book
Sudoku For All Ages
I've added a large batch of new printable sudoku puzzles to The Trip Clip website, so there are now almost 300 puzzles you can print for your kids to entertain them on trips, in the car, at restaurants, or anywhere else you go with them. 71 4x4 Puzzles These 4x4 puzzles step up in difficulty … Continue reading Sudoku For All Ages
Printable 2-Player Games
In addition to lots of individual activities to keep kids busy and learning, The Trip Clip has a handful of printable 2-player games for siblings, for a parent and their child, and kids in a classroom. Most of the time my kids played these games with each other on our trips, but sometimes my husband … Continue reading Printable 2-Player Games
10 Road Trip Tips For Families with Grade Schoolers
When our kids were 8 & 11 our family took a 3 week road trip from Seattle to Chicago and back again. Many days we were in the car for 8 or more hours, so it took some work to keep the kids entertained without giving them insane amounts of screen time. Here are our … Continue reading 10 Road Trip Tips For Families with Grade Schoolers
Custom Design a To Do / Done Board
A customer asked me last week if she could print a To Do / Done Board without a picture in the bottom left corner. I printed custom boards for her with no picture, and then added this feature to my website so others can do this too! You can now purchase a printed magnetic board … Continue reading Custom Design a To Do / Done Board
All About Travel BINGO
The Trip Clip's BINGO activity is an excellent addition to any trip you take - even just a trip around town! There are 1500 images available to make any BINGO board you want. You can shuffle and edit each board, or have the website automatically generate an unlimited number of new boards. 8 Types of … Continue reading All About Travel BINGO
Unlimited Mazes
Each of my kids (my best beta testers!) had different favorite activities from The Trip Clip. Those favorites changed over time, but for a very long time one of my kids could not get enough mazes. I used the Activity Book feature to print 20-30 mazes for him for each trip, raising the difficulty level … Continue reading Unlimited Mazes
Print a Classroom Jobs Chart
I created a PDF you can use to print your own jobs chart for your classroom. Free! It includes a Jobs Chart plus 20 jobs and 20 blank name squares. Print the Jobs Chart Here's how to make this: Print the PDF Write the names of the kids in your class on the blank lines. … Continue reading Print a Classroom Jobs Chart
120 Football-Themed Secret Message Jokes & Riddles
This past week I had my niece Gaby work on making a set of football-themed cryptograms using The Trip Clip website. You can go to my Cryptograms page at The Trip Clip to get the 120 football-themed puzzles along with other individual puzzles and pre-made packets. Learning From Cryptograms Secret Message Puzzles (or Cryptograms) are … Continue reading 120 Football-Themed Secret Message Jokes & Riddles
Nutrition: Help Kids Learn To Make Healthy Choices
These two picture lists have helped my kids learn to make healthier food choices. They can help yours too! Have your kids pick one item from each category of the lunch packing checklist. They will learn to identify and eat a variety of foods for a more balanced diet. The healthy snack ideas list reminds … Continue reading Nutrition: Help Kids Learn To Make Healthy Choices
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