Screen-Free Summer Activities for Kids: Printables for Road Trips, Vacations & Everyday Summer Days
- Amy | Personal Assistant For Mom
- Jul 10
- 3 min read
When summer routines disappear, many parents find themselves asking the same question: What can I do with my kids that doesn’t involve another screen?
Whether you’re planning a family vacation, surviving a rainy afternoon, heading to a campground, or just trying to make it through summer break without hearing “I’m bored” every ten minutes, having a ready-to-use library of printable activities can make a huge difference.
That’s exactly why I created these screen-free summer printables inside The Pantry resource shop: practical activities that are easy to download, print, and use at home or on the go.
The Summer Family Fun Pack: scavenger hunts, crafts, movement cards & coloring pages
The Summer Family Fun Pack is built around the kinds of activities parents ask for most:
Printable summer writing prompts and directed drawing activities
Coloring pages for kids and adults for quiet time
Printable crafts including ocean animals, finger puppets, and build-and-create projects
Movement cards and summer games to encourage active play
Backyard, beach, and camping scavenger hunts for outdoor adventures
If you’re looking for summer boredom busters, rainy day activities for kids, or screen-free travel activities, this bundle covers a wide range of ages and interests.
The Preschool Activity Binder: reusable learning activities for preschoolers
For younger children, the Preschool Activity Binder offers 80+ pages of reusable learning activities focused on early childhood skills:
Colors, matching, and sorting
Numbers and counting practice
Shapes and pattern recognition
Alphabet matching and beginning sounds
Puzzles, problem solving, and classification activities
Emotion recognition and preschool life skills
Parents often use busy binders for quiet time at home, restaurants and waiting rooms, road trips and flights, and homeschool enrichment. Laminating pages or placing them in page protectors makes the binder reusable throughout the season!
The Grab & Go Activity Kit: a practical travel system for parents
One of the biggest summer stressors is leaving the house without a plan. The Grab & Go Activity Kit is designed around a simple idea: create a ready-to-use bag of mess-free activities you can grab for park trips, restaurants, appointments, flights, or long drives.
Inside you’ll find:
A To-Go Bag Setup Guide with organization tips and a checklist of essentials
50 printable trivia cards with answers across multiple categories
Mini coloring books that fold into portable booklets
Road Trip Bingo for reusable car-travel entertainment
It’s a practical option if you’re searching for road trip activities for kids, restaurant activities for children, or travel entertainment without screens.
The Summer Adventure Memory Bundle: Travel journals for kids, teens & adults
For vacations and longer trips, The Summer Adventure Memory Bundle contains kids, teen, and adult travel journals designed for road trips, flights, family vacations, camping weekends, and summer adventures.
They provide a simple way for each family member to document experiences, jot down memories, and stay engaged during travel days! Travel journals encourage observation, writing, memory keeping, and creative reflection — and they give everyone in the family a way to document the trip.
Why printable summer activities work:
Printable activities are especially useful because they:
Require almost no prep — download, print, and use immediately.
Travel easily — great for road trips, flights, restaurants, waiting rooms, and camping trips.
Can be reused — laminate pages or place them in page protectors to reuse.
Support independent play — many activities can be done without constant adult direction.
Reduce screen time while still keeping kids engaged and learning.
If your goal is less scrambling, less screen time, and more easy-to-start activities that travel well, these printables are designed to be downloaded once and used all summer long.
👉 Browse all summer resources in The Pantry
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