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Travel Adventures

Where would you go if you could go anywhere? Children will illustrate their travels to a place, real or imaginary, and tell a story about their adventure.

Lesson Plan

Supplies Needed

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  • Fabric
  • Paper

Steps

  • Step 1

    Albert Einstein said, "Your imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions." Ask children to imagine wonderful places they'd like to go. They could be real or imaginary. Where is the place located? Is it on Earth or another planet? Who lives there? What do the inhabitants do for entertainment? How do they travel? 

  • Step 2

    Have children illustrate themselves visiting this place. They can enhance their art by adding watercolors over the crayon drawings. They can also embellish the work with scraps of fabric glued onto the art.

  • Step 3

    Have students present their art and tell a story about their travels to the place they illustrated. Then display the art around the classroom.

Standards

LA: Add drawings or other visual displays to written text to clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings. 

LA: Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.

Adaptations

Read a book such as "The Boy Who Loved Maps" by Kari Allen and G. Brian Karas or "Franklin's Flying Bookshop" by Jen Campbell and Katie Harnett. Discuss how our imaginations guide us every day.

Have children illustrate a new, fun mode of transportation. Where would it take them? How is it operated? What special features would it have?