| One thing you can count on during the first days of | | | | 3. Map It |
| school is the inevitable question of "What did you do | | | | Instead of just telling the class where you went and |
| over the summer?" Here are a few creative ways to | | | | what you did, pinpoint our summer destinations and |
| describe your summer experiences for the first edition | | | | activities on a map. If you stayed close to home, use a |
| of Show and Tell. | | | | local road map. If you were able to travel to several |
| 1. Flip Books | | | | cities and states, use a countrywide map. Glue |
| Create a moving picture of your summer fun with a | | | | magazine cutouts of activities, or actual photos of your |
| flip book. Start out with a Post-It pad or a pocket-sized | | | | fun onto the map. For example, if you went to a dude |
| spiral notebook. Draw the first picture on the last sheet | | | | ranch in Dallas, glue a picture of a horse onto the map |
| of paper and work your way to the first page by | | | | in Dallas. If you visited Mount Rushmore, glue a photo |
| changing the picture little by little. For instance, if you | | | | of your family onto the map in South Dakota. The |
| learned how to surf over the summer, you might start | | | | same goes for rock climbing, swimming, snorkeling, and |
| with a picture of you lying on a surfboard in calm | | | | anything else you had a chance to enjoy over the |
| waters. The next picture could show the waters | | | | summer months. |
| growing a little choppier. The following drawings could | | | | 4. Seashell Memories |
| be of you slowly turning, then standing on the board as | | | | Capture every fun moment of summer vacation on |
| the wave grows larger, and so on. | | | | seashells. If you didn't get a chance to go to the beach, |
| 2. Summer Collage | | | | don't worry-most craft and hobby stores sell bags of |
| Illustrate your summer happenings with one of my | | | | seashells. Use acrylic paint and a clean paintbrush to |
| favorite forms: collages. Simply use glue to cover a | | | | paint pictures inside the shells. My son's summer shells |
| poster board or even several small postcard-sized | | | | feature an octopus in the ocean (from snorkeling-we |
| papers with magazine cutouts, sections of road maps, | | | | didn't actually see an octopus, but he wishes he had), a |
| photographs, movie and concert ticket stubs, | | | | colorful clown from a friend's birthday party, an airplane |
| restaurant menus, train schedules, and any other | | | | in the clouds, and the night sky filled with stars and a |
| mementos from your summer. | | | | bright crescent moon. |