Transportation Activities with a Free Car Printable

Use this free printable for several transportation activities with with your preschoolers. The car printable can be used for a matching game, a bingo game, and even a travel game. It’s a perfect addition to your transportation unit and lesson plans in preschool and pre-k.

Today I have a free car printable. You can use it as a matching game or a bingo-type game. Scroll through and see the ideas for this cute transportation activity.

Transportation Bingo Game

The printable includes four different game boards and a set of car cards. To play bingo, give each child a game board. Shuffle the cards and place face down on a pile. Turn over a card and kids can cover the matching vehicle on their game board. The first child to cover 4 vehicles in a row on their game board is the winner.

I made a set of light blue lines along the diagonals on the game cards. My son always had a difficult time seeing the diagonal while playing bingo games. The addition of the line makes it a little easier for young kids.

Transportation Matching Activity

You can also use the set as a simple transportation activity. Use the bingo game boards and 1 set of vehicle cards for each game board. Kids can select a vehicle card, find the matching card on their game board, and place the card upside-down on their game board. They can continue until they have matched all of the vehicles on their game board. This is a great visual discrimination exercise.

Watch the Cars Go By

Print off a bingo game card and place it on an inexpensive cookie sheet and use some magnets as markers. Kids can watch cars drive by from a window or from a playground and mark each type of car as they see them. This also works as a fun and inexpensive travel game for a road trip. It doesn’t take long for kids to see which vehicles are easy to spot and which ones are more difficult.

Additional Activity Ideas

Memory – Print off extra sets of the cards and play a memory matching game
Sorting – Print off extra sets of the cards and ask kids to sort them. They can sort by color, vehicle type, etc.
Patterns – Print off extra sets of the cards and ask kids to make a patterned traffic jam