Adventures We Seek: Paris

Paris Printables for Kids

Ages 3 to 13

Three printables so far, all of it about Paris itself rather than a generic city with an Eiffel Tower on the front. The Metro entrances they will actually walk under. The market they will actually taste their way through. The Roman arena most people walk straight past.

What this actually is

This library started as things I was making for my own three kids, before it was ever something to sell. Paris has a Roman arena tucked behind a gate on a side street, a fortress under the Louvre, a cathedral that burned and is being rebuilt, and boulevards drawn with a ruler after 1853, and kids notice all of it if you give them a reason to look.

Gavin, Jake and Avilene are on the pages doing the same job your kid will do with the book in hand. Look closer. Ask a real question. Keep something to bring home.

Ages 8 to 13

Older kids push back on anything that feels like school, so these hand them something real instead: a story to question, a case to solve, a book of their own to fill.

Ages 8 to 12Paris Explorer JournalNine creative studios on light, architecture, pattern, music, theatre, food, signs and games, with Monet, Notre-Dame’s western facade and the Gobelins weavers along the way. This is Avilene’s book, built around the kind of looking she already does without being asked.56 pages

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Ages 11 to 13Paris History HuntSix real stops, from the Roman arena at the Arenes de Lutece to Place de la Republique, with Notre-Dame, the Louvre, Boulevard Haussmann and Les Halles in between, each one a case to investigate rather than a fact to memorize. Runs on the same framework I used teaching history for eight years.52 pages

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For the whole family

Bingo is the cheapest thing here and the one that gets used the most. A card in a small hand changes a long walk completely.

All agesParis Adventure BingoOne card, seven print sizes, twenty-four things to spot in Paris and a free space in the middle. Print one per kid and see who calls bingo first.1 card

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More on the way

London has the full library, ten printables and six bundles, and Paris is getting the same. The Discovery Deck, the City Activity Book and the travel day books come next, then the Family Cookbook and the Keepsake Pack, and the bundles after that. If you want to know when they land, the free Paris guide below is the easiest place to check back.

Planning the trip too?

The full Paris family travel guide is free and sits right here on the site, and the wider France guide is next to it: where to stay, how many nights, what is worth the queue and what is not.

And if you would rather hand the whole thing to somebody, that is my actual job. Tell me who is coming and when.