A Fun and Affrodable Art Project: A Travel Guide to Australia

My students really enjoyed making their own travel guides to Australia. This art project is easy, cheap, and does not require a lot of art preparation. The Travel Guide to Australia art project can be adapted to any age group or skill level.

What you will need for the Travel Guide to Australia Art Project

You will need art paper in light colors (white, pastels, cream), construction paper, markers, magazines, glue, and scissors. You will also need some sample books about Australia that have pictures of animals and plants from Australia, a photo of the Australian flag, and other colorful images about Australia. These images from Australia will help the children better understand what types of items should go in their Travel Guide to Australia. You also may want to include pictures of the Great Barrier Reef, the Sydney Opera House, and other tourist attractions in Australia.

If you have any music from Australia, you can play it as the children work on their art project.

Making the Travel Guide to Australia Art Project

Show the children the various images from Australia. Talk about the animals and plants indigenous to Australia and famous Australian attractions. You may want to encourage them to create a rough draft of the Australian flag and to practicing sketching the animals before they begin their art project. Some notable animals from Australia include the kangaroo, koala bear, the platypus, and the emu.

Before the children begin their art project, have them make a trifold out of their paper, just like a travel pamphlet. Have them use the construction paper, markers and magazines, to create images that will be glued into their Travel Guide to Australia. You probably will not have many images that are from Australia. Encourage the children to use their drawing and collage art skills to make the animals and plants out of construction paper. Add the image of the Australian flag to the front page.

The children can use the markers, or pens, to write headings like, "Explore the Great Barrier Reef" or "Visit the local zoo!" on each page.

Travel Guide from Australia

Once the children have completed their Travel Guide to Australia, they can take turns pretending to lead a small group of tourists to the various travel destinations. If you have your own classroom, you can designate different areas of the classroom as different parts of Australia. For example, you may have a small table with different toy fish in a box and a poster of the Great Barrier Reef. The children can pretend to explore the Great Barrier Reef in Australia at that station. Another station can be the Sidney Opera House where opera music can play or another station can be a zoo or a visit to an Australian aborigine society. Have the children rotate around the room, having fun and pretending to explore Australia.