Island
Drawing
A Neighborhood Travel
Brochure
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Island
Drawing
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Descriptor & Goals:
Create a brochure describing the highlights of your neighborhood, telling
visitors and newcomers about points of interest and how to get to them.
Time: 20 min.
Materials:
Samples of travel brochures
Optional: photos of the neighborhood
Computer and/or
Markers or crayons
Paper
Scissors
Glue
Pencil and eraser
Setup:
Read through the activity.
Display the travel brochures.
Set out the supplies
Wouldn’t it be fun to travel to
Jamaica and have Orly give you a real tour of her neighborhood? Travel brochures
are one way that you can learn about a new place. You can look at them before
you leave home as you plan your trip. And when you get to the new place you can
use them to find your way to the area highlights.
Commercial artists design colorful brochures with pictures and maps describing special places. They learn about the area from the people who live there.
They write about the places and tell
you the addresses and other information you will need to enjoy a visit. They arrange the words, pictures, and maps in a layout
that makes the brochure attractive and easy to use.
Pretend you are a travel agent or a
commercial artist and you want people to visit your neighborhood.
What are the special places you would want them to see?
How can you show them what is special about the places? Could you use
drawings or photos? How would they get to the places? What do they need to know
about the place or event?
1. Take an imaginary tour of your neighborhood. List at least six special places, such as the ice cream stand, a playground, your school, your home, a tree house. After each place, list several things that make it special. List the colors, smells, sounds you experience, things that happen there, how you feel when you are there, the people you see there.
2. Take photos of the places or draw several small pictures.
3. Use your lists and drawings to write short paragraphs about each place. If you are using a computer, choose a font that fits the spirit of your neighborhood. Or print the paragraphs freehand in a style you think fits. Print and cut out these paragraphs.
4. Draw a map going to each place. You may want to start and end the map at your home, as if you were a tour guide.
5. Think of a headline that would catch people’s attention to read your brochure and visit your neighborhood. Design or choose a font and size that fits your headline.
6. Fold a piece of paper into three panels, like a business letter. Or look at different brochures and choose a way to fold yours.
7. Decide how you will put the headline and a drawing or photo on the front panel. Arrange the layout of the other panels.
8. When the layout looks unified and expresses the spirit of your neighborhood, glue everything in place.
9.
When dry, fold and share with others.
Your brochure of neighborhood
Name some of the things that make your place unique.
How is your spot similar to Orly’s?
What colors, shapes, sounds, textures, smells, and spaces are ordinary to you, but may be different than Orly’s?
Act as a tour guide and lead others
around the neighborhood, using your brochure as a guide.
Visit a travel agent. Learn how they help people plan trips to unfamiliar places.
Visit an advertising agency that designs travel brochures. Learn how they create them.
Do this activity in teams with 3-4 children working together.
The entire group could create a plan of several area highlights, with smaller teams creating brochures for each highlight.
The children:
Drew or photographed and wrote about key features of their neighborhood.
Arranged the information and images for unity and easy use.
Expressed interest in telling others about their surroundings.