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Charles' Travel Doodle

I have tried various creative ways of documenting and capturing Charles’ experiences on our many travels.  He loves to draw, so the Travel Doodle is a fun, easy way for him to express his traveling discoveries and highlights.  A Travel Doodle is simply your child’s pictorial representation of your family trip.  It can be used to document a single day’s outing or a month-long family vacation.  It works best if your child adds to the picture daily, creating the collage over the course of the trip.  The final product may not make sense to someone else, but becomes a precious keepsake capturing your child’s personal experience of a family trip.  The above doodle is Charles’ most recent drawing, illustrating his trip to Milan, Amsterdam and Paris.

Create your own:

• Your child should draw the place where she started the journey in the middle of the piece of the paper. (her house, city, hotel, etc.)

• Illustrate things around the center picture that you’ve seen or experienced on your trip.  Draw an airplane, train, stuffed animal you bought, a place you visited, a horse you rode, something you ate, etc.

Remember, the drawing montage doesn’t have to make sense, as it is your child’s personal interpretation of his trip.  I suggest that you laminate the picture once it is completed to preserve the drawing.