Thanksgiving Travel Maps
A beautiful drawing to show how everyone arrived
ADDED November 24, 2009
Length: Fifteen to thirty minutes.
Parental Involvement: Discuss travel, help with actual distances the kids where needed.
Kids Should Be Able to: Draw and imagine.
Thanksgiving is our nation's biggest travel day, as you probably know. While the roads and airports might get a little clogged at times, you have to admit it's nice for people to get out and see friends and family.
If people are coming to your house this Thursday -- or if you're going to someone else's house, that just might make for a fun activity for your kids.
Get out some paper and crayons, and have your kids make a map or two of everyone's journey. Grandma's coming in from Riverside? Aunt Jolene is driving in from the next city over? Bobby and his girlfriend are visiting from college? Have your kids draw a rough sketch of each person's journey. The maps don't need to be particularly accurate or at all to scale. Any correct details that can be included -- such as rough locations or landmarks like oceans and rivers -- would be great to include.
In our house, the kids made the journey a bit more exciting. They added sea monsters and volcanoes. That's okay by me, too. A little imagination never hurt.
The kids can show all the guests their work. We hope that all the attendees might be a bit flattered by the thought that was put into them and their journeys. Each guest can describe the journey they took and add details for future maps. And they can also admire any sea monsters or volcanoes that they completely missed while they were on the road.
| art supplies needed, Holiday activity, |
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