If there’s one thing I love it’s family vacations (and the occasional couples trip when we get the chance). If there’s another thing I love it’s making free printables. And if there’s another another thing I love it’s combining the two. Okay, that’s a lot of things I love and more than slightly confusing. Anyway, today I’ve got some free printable pages for you to create a travel journal. This is a perfect homeschool project for your kiddos to assemble before your vacation and then work on while you’re gone. Or just work on one together as a family to record all your fun trip memories! Some links contain affiliates, all opinions are my own.

DIY travel journal

assembling your travel journal

Assembling this DIY travel journal might even be more fun than filling it out. You start with a stack of brown paper lunchbags. Three or four is a good number for this project. Stack them on top of each other alternating between fronts and backs. You want the lunch sack opening between every other page. Then fold the stack in half and either using a stapler or a sewing machine create a binding. Then all you have to do it cut out the squares from the free travel journal printable pages and glue them on the lunchbag pages.

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what can you do?

You’ll get two free printable pages that you can print out as much as you want. You can glue them to the pages of your lunchbag book, or you can even use them to slide into the “pockets” created from the openings in the bags. Those openings are also great places to store pictures or mementos from your trip!

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I wanted a lot of variety when I was creating the pages so your kids could have fun with it. There’s space for journaling, drawing, recording details, or whatever their imagination decides! And of course these printables can be used for more than just a travel journal. It can be used for a book report, nature project, daily journal–the sky’s the limit!

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Do you like to record your trip memories with some type of travel journal?