A Quick and Easy Art Project: A Travel Guide to Florida

Whether you are trying to find a way to incorporate a art into your geography lesson, or want a quick and easy art project for your classroom, home, or camp group, you will find that your children will enjoy making their own Travel Guide to Florida.

What you will need for your Florida Travel Guide Art Project

You will need paper in pastel Florida colors (corral, sea green, aqua), glue or glue sticks, scissors, magazines and images from Florida, and markers. Have visual samples to show the children, such as Florida animal books, Florida travel guides, and story books about Florida. You will probably want to have samples of animals such as alligators and the Florida panther and even sports information like the Miami Dolphins or the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Other images, like the beaches, the Everglades, and Disney World can also be used as visual samples.

Making the Travel Guide Art Project

Discuss the various animals, plants, sports, locations, geography, and sports popular in Florida. Have them talk about the weather in Florida and about fruits and vegetables that they might find in Florida (such as pineapple, bananas, cassava, or oranges). You might want to discuss how Florida has many cultural groups that speak many languages and celebrate different traditions. You can play music from Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica, the Bahamas, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic as part of the lesson. Florida is a very large state with many different areas. Each area has its own attractions. For example, North Florida is known for Florida State University, Central Florida has Disney World, Tampa has Busch Gardens, and South Florida has the beach and the Everglades.

Have the children use the magazines and construction paper to create different images to go in their art travel guide. Have them fold their art paper in a trifold, like a travel guide pamphlet. Then they can glue the various images into the travel guide. Use markers and pencils to write in travel guide sayings like, "Check out the glorious South Florida Beaches!" or "Pet a manatee at Sea World!".

Be sure that the children include more than just popular attractions like Disney World in their art project. In fact, you may limit them only to a certain area of Florida, or tell them that their art project must have a page dedicated to animals, weather, Native American art, or other regional subjects.

When they have completed their Florida Travel Guide art project, the children can use their travel guide to talk about what they learned about Florida. Make a fun art display in your classroom by displaying each child's art piece on the wall.