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Free Kids' Travel Journal Printable

Published: Mar 6, 2017 · Modified: Nov 21, 2019 by Lauren · This post may contain affiliate links · 15 Comments

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This amazing free printable kids travel journal is perfect for family vacations and kids' travels. It's the ideal tool to inspire observation and learning about culture and geography. 

How would you like to have a super easy activity for the kids on your next vacation? What about one that involves reflecting on their day and writing and drawing about their impressions and experiences?

Look no further!

I love this free Kids' Travel Journal printable, and so does my daughter. With this notebook, she is able to keep track of what she did each day, how she felt, and her favorite aspects of it.

In addition, there's a reflection page that lets kids write or draw the weirdest thing from the vacation, the funniest thing, or what they'd like to do next time, etc.

Why do you need a Kids' Travel Journal?

First of all, I would suggest all travelers keep a journal. Why do you ask? There are so many times you are in the moment and the sights, impressions, feelings, and experiences are all crystal clear, and you may think you'll always remember them exactly that way.

Unfortunately, that is not always the case, and as time passes some of those start to muddle. Moreover, if you take the time to write out what you are seeing and experiencing you can go back to that at a later time. Then your mind will more easily recall all those senses from your journey and make it a reality.

I love to go back and re-read my travel journals and look at the photos together from that time.

A kids' travel journal is important for all of those same reasons, but more as well. When a child writes out in sentence form about their day and what happened it causes their mind to process it in a new way. They will see it from a different perspective and remember it through that writing and also drawing.

Furthermore, journaling one's adventures and feelings is a skill to be learned and practiced. I find it calms you down at the end of the day, and we all know traveling can be exhausting!

Make it part of the routine each evening before bed, and the relaxing familiarity of it will help to comfort kids. Inevitably this makes the entire trip more enjoyable for everyone!

Free Kids' Travel Journal

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As a bonus download your free kids' travel journal!

Kids' Travel Journal preview

 

You should receive an email with a welcome and instructions for your bonus download.

I hope you enjoy the travel journal, and your kids will get a lot of use out of it!

Happy travels!

More travel journal ideas: 

My kids have gone through this travel journal several times, and we love it! However, sometimes it's good to mix things up a bit!

Want to check out our latest kids travel journal?

Kids Travel Journal (new!)

It's filled with new activities and prompts to get kids thinking and observing more on their travels!

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Comments

  1. Leah says

    March 10, 2017 at 2:08 pm

    My kids are all too old for this, but it's really great. Love the idea. I love journaling!

    Reply
  2. Jennifer Corter says

    March 16, 2017 at 8:06 am

    This is awesome! Thank you for the printable! My little guy will love it!

    Reply
    • ExplorerMomma says

      March 21, 2017 at 12:55 am

      You're welcome Jennifer! I hope he enjoys it.

      Reply
  3. Renee says

    April 16, 2018 at 6:12 pm

    It doesn't work for me, is the link no longer valid?

    Reply
    • Lauren says

      April 16, 2018 at 9:07 pm

      I'm sorry you're having trouble with it! It's working - did you put in your name, email, and hit download? Try it one more time if you want. It will send you an email to confirm and download from there!

      Reply
  4. Renee says

    May 03, 2018 at 10:28 am

    Never mind! I did it a 3rd time and it went thru..

    Reply
  5. Monica says

    May 31, 2018 at 12:35 pm

    I didn't find the download button..

    Reply
    • Lauren says

      May 31, 2018 at 10:03 pm

      Hi Monica! The printable will automatically download when you click the "download" button in the email you received. It depends on your system, but you might check your recent downloads. Let me know if you don't get it, and I'll send it to you!

      Reply
  6. Barbara says

    July 21, 2018 at 11:32 am

    Awesome travel journal templates!! A big thank you all the way from Europe 🙂

    Reply
    • Lauren says

      July 21, 2018 at 11:44 am

      You're welcome! I'm so glad you liked it, Barbara! We're hoping to get over to Europe next summer and can't wait. Happy travels with the kids!

      Reply
  7. sophia says

    September 14, 2018 at 11:28 pm

    good sharing

    Reply
  8. Erin says

    June 09, 2022 at 11:52 am

    Hi I've tried subscribing with two different email addresses but have not received the link - the link for the other updated travel journal came through fine but this one's being tricky 🙂

    Reply
    • Lauren says

      June 11, 2022 at 10:49 pm

      Sorry it's not working for you! I just emailed it to you directly.

      Reply

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