Zany TV Travel Report
Directions:
It's Smith Trek, and the mission is to go where no family has ever gone before!
No, this isn't a new TV show—at least not in the conventional sense. The idea behind this activity is to have your children produce their own "television" show using a large box (you can often get one from an appliance store) from which you've cut out a screen and added a dial or two (yogurt-container tops affixed with brads). If you can't get a box, you can make a cardboard television facade with a large piece of posterboard.
Your kids can do on-location interviews, with the interviewee wearing beach clothes or a hat representative of one of the places you visited. He or she might also explain how certain foreign foods should be cooked or describe customs the family encountered in other parts of the world.
Or how about this one: your children can advise other kids on the best way to keep occupied while on the road. Take notes; you'll learn a lot for the next time you travel!
© 2005 by Steve and Ruth Bennett. Excerpted from 365 Unplugged Family Fun Activities with permission of its publisher, Perseus Books Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
To order this book visit perseusbooksgroup.com.
