As you know, I recently started putting together the state notebooking pages, and I started to think about other fun ways to study the states. I remembered the stamps that you can get at the different National Parks (and some state parks) that allow you to stamp you own “passport” when you visit. I knew that some people had used a printable passport when they studied different countries and decided it would be a fun idea to incorporate into the study of the states.
I designed a basic printable passport that can be personalized with the student’s picture and other personal information (like a real passport). It’s easy designed to be printed back to back to allow for more use of the pages. Honestly, cutting the pages out takes longer than the assembly of the passport. I folded the cut out pages in half and stacked them making sure the personal information pages line up properly. Then it was just a matter of stapling the pages together in a book style. The passport pages are small enough that you can use a standard stapler. There are enough pages for all 50 states plus a few more. You can always print out more pages if needed.
For the state “stamps”, I thought it would be fun to use the state quarter designs as the stamps as they give a bit of information about each of the states. Because I didn’t want to individually cut out all of the stamps, I designed them to be able to be printed out on the round stickers from Avery (affiliate link). It also meant that there was no glue involved – just peel and stick! (Yes, I like making my life a little easier when possible. **grin**)
Overall, I’m pleased with how it turned out. In these pics, I printed everything in draft mode as I was testing out the alignment before printing the “real” passport. (I always test out printables in draft mode, so I don’t waste ink in the process.) The actual passport, passport pages, and stamps are darker with more detail. I decided to include stamps for the US territories as well in case anyone wanted to use those.
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This is great – I’m posting one I created this week too – for World travel 🙂 great minds
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I work with school age children before and after school, and over the winter break out theme is “Road Trip America.” We had discussed doing something with a passport, so I’m delighted to this!
THANK YOU! I came across your US lapbook while prepping for our history plan next year. I wanted to add the quarters to that somehow and started to make my own printable quarters on an Avery template when I found yours. Thank you again. I am doing this for 7 children and this will save us an immeasurable amount of time.
You are welcome. I’m glad you found them helpful. 🙂
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how did you make the quarters. Thanks
Jennifer, if you click on the printable passport link, you can download the printable passport with quarters. They are designed to be used on the Avery circle stickers, but you can print them out on regular paper and glue them on the passport.
Love these! Thank you. I created one with country stamps and will link to yours for the state ones.
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What a wonderful idea! My son LOVES coins and my daughter loves stickers! This may be the BEST way I’ve seen so far of teaching them about the 50 states. Thank you!
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I am trying to download your wonderful resource, but I do not have a gmail account, and so it will not let me download it. Is there a way you could send it to me through email? Thank you. 🙂
I’m afraid the file is too large to send via email.
Thanks. 🙂 I will try to get into gmail. 🙂 This looks like a wonderful booklet for kids. 🙂
Hello, I love to make this, however I tried using the avery stickers to print the quarters and they are off just a bit. I have tried to play with it with no luck. Any way you would be able to send me the master file? Thanks I love your work and thanks so much for sharing!
Unfortunately, I no longer have access to the master file.
I just ran across this. Im going to use this for my 3 year grand daughter who has been traveling everywhere we have gone. Her mom said we never went to all those places growing up! I said that was because we were poor and raising 3 kids! Grand kids are the best!Thanks again for this!
These are so great. Last summer (and continuing this summer), my kindergartner and I went through the states learning about them and doing activities. Cutting out the coins and gluing them in her state journal was part of the activities and she loves em. Thanks for this!
I just stumbled across this and can’t wait to do it with our soon to be 8 yr old granddaughter that lives and travels with my husband and I. Thank you so much! 🙂
I’m having a hard time finding the correct size stickers… do you know what number or size you used? Please and thank you!
I used the Avery 5408 round labels. (affiliate link)
Is this still available?
I would LOVE to make one for my granddaughter.
Just click on the link to subscribe to the homeschool resource library. You’ll receive a password which will allow you to download all of the free resources including the printable passport. Thanks! 🙂
Thank you SO much. I don’t see the personalized passport pages, just the blank ones, but this is great. However the link to the round stickers took me to stickers that are far too small. The link is for 3/4 round. I will try looking for larger ones.
I really appreciate your help 🙂
Thank you for all the time you spend sharing what you do.
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I know this is an older post, but I just want to tell you that we recently used your stickers with passports I made for a spring break road trip project and my kids LOVED it. Thanks for sharing your creative ideas! I’m sharing a link to your site in my post today about the ones I designed.
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