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Travel Fun
A Travel Notebook

Have your children make travel notebooks, a great activity for elementary-school-age children. Buy a loose-leaf notebook, dividers, and paper. The various sections of the notebook for our pretend trip will be:

1. Interesting facts – about Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Indian reservations, or the Grand Canyon. Using an encyclopedia or library books, each child will write information on one of the above topics and share it with the family. This will help them all be better prepared for the trip. They may even make some contributions to the trip itinerary.
2. Travel log – Here the child can write a brief daily diary of the trip.
3. Postcards – The blank, unlined paper in this section is ready for pasting in interesting postcards gathered on the trip.
4. Quiet time – Here the child can record special verses or prayer requests each day. It’s also a good place for recording observations on the new beauties and curiosities of God’s world that the child notices along the way.
5. Money – The child can keep an account of his money and how it disappears!
6. Blank – This children’s choice section is filled with blank sheets of paper for drawing, playing tic-tac-toe, or anything the child desires.

You can plan a Travel Notebook Day a few weeks before your summer trip. Begin the day buying notebooks, dividers, paper, and writing utensils. You can take the children to the library to research and write down interesting facts; they can continue this project at home. In the afternoon or evening you can bring out the new notebooks and set up the divisions to get the Travel Notebook ready for use.

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