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This could be something big like a canyon or little like a desert flower. Sit down and draw something beautiful that stands out to you. Draw your own map of the park and the route your family took. Include other memorabilia such as postcards and stamps. Cut up your park brochure and tape as a collage into the journal. Take along a blank sketch book (something with nice sturdy pages from an art store), a good set of colored pencils, and double-sided tape. As the boys have gotten older, they have become more involved in planning upcoming trips, expressing an interest in NPs they would like to visit. Did you know there are 58 National Parks in the US? It's great awareness on their part to see where we've been and see where we could still travel to. I also included a US map of all the National Parks so that every time we visit one we can mark it off. We have followed a basic format for each NP we've added:Ĭolored-pencil sketches of favorite spots within the parkĪ personal reflection of something that stood out to them (when they were too young to write this themselves, they dictated to me and I wrote it down in their journal). The boys begin their NP journals with a visit to The Grand Canyon They also like to try and read what they wrote years ago with their phonetic spelling. The boys think it's funny to see the drawings they sketched when they were young. We have now visited 9 NPs and it's fun to have all these visits recorded in one journal. I'm glad I had the foresight to begin a special journal designated just to our visits to NPs. When my boys were just 3 and 5 years old, we visited our first National Park, The Grand Canyon. Keeping a National Park journal is one way to do that. There are so many wonderful ways to capture memories on trips with journaling. Keep a Journal Designated for Your Visits to National Parks
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