Travel Collage

Directions:

Wouldn't it be convenient to have a "getting there" and "getting home" picture record, all on one sheet of paper? Your child will only need art supplies and a piece of paper-the largest that can be conveniently used while en route.

Have your child look out the window and find something interesting: an unusual house or building or car, a cloud formation that looks like an animal, or a mountain, beach, lake, or pasture. He or she then draws it in on one small area of the paper. When the scenery changes, your child adds another drawing near the first one. So the travel collage might start off showing your city or town, change to rural or farm country, then gradually show a city rising on the horizon, and culminate with a bustling downtown area.

If several artists have created collages, when you get home, you can tape the pieces of paper together and create a wall display. Now that will really capture the trip in a way no camera could ever do!

More on: Arts & Crafts Activities for Kids: Project Ideas

Excerpted from:

© 2005 by Steve and Ruth Bennett. Excerpted from 365 Unplugged Family Fun Activities with permission of its publisher, Perseus Books Group, Inc. All rights reserved.

To order this book visit perseusbooksgroup.com.