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Tracing your Trail

A trip is exciting! You get to see new places, explore new activities and have loads of fun! But did you know that you can capture these experiences forever? Not only in photographs, but also in travel journals.

What is a travel journal?

In a travel journal, you can document the trips you’ve taken. From short city tours to week-long adventures, you can note down everything about the trip. You can record your experiences daily and note down what you saw, when you saw it and how you felt. And whenever you open your travel journal, you get to relive the experience!

We spoke to Noorain Ahmed, an illustrator who has been documenting all her trips since the past 10 years! She gave us some cool tips on how you can keep a travel journal and document your memories!

“I started keeping a travel journal because I liked to write about everything I saw when I travelled. Now, whenever I read my journal, I feel very happy as I remember everything I did on my trip. It makes me want to travel more.” 

Brooklyn Lopez, 7 years, Dubai

  • One for one

Keep a dedicated book for one particular journey and give it a title. For example, if you’re travelling to Manali, the title could be ‘Manali Diaries’. Mention the date so that when you look back you remember exactly when you took that trip. It’s best to make your own journal by stapling pages together, otherwise, you can use a small drawing book as it is easy to carry around.

  • Mapping fun!

One of the first things you could do is draw a map of the place you’re at. It could be the street you’re living near and the shops or landmarks around you. Just draw what you see. You could mark the street name, stores you visited, junctions, eateries or restaurants, places you hung out, or anything you noticed on the street. If you’re doing a tour of an entire state, then you could outline the state and mark places you visited in the state. Drawing maps should be done on the first day of the trip as you can keep adding to it throughout the journey. You can also add symbols to your map to remind you of the places you saw.

  • Do it Daily

One of the things about travel journaling is you do it on the spot, while you’re on the trip as that’s what makes it special. Make an entry every day as your memories are fresh and you will be able to remember every single thing you did. If you make a note and think of putting it down later, you won’t be able to capture how you felt. It makes it special to do it right away because then you have two memories—one of the moment you are capturing and the memory of you drawing or writing about it.

  • Date it!

Whatever you’re capturing every day put the date in one corner or a title for each entry summarising your day.

  • Pen it in!

To ensure you maintain your journal every day, use a pen. If you use a pencil, you won’t be able to complete it as you will keep erasing. Use a pen and ensure you finish your journal.

  • Pick, stick and go!

It’s not necessary to only write or draw in your travel journal. You can also stick pictures, bills, tickets or something you found, or anything that describes some part of your trip.

“My travel journal is full of pictures, drawings and tickets to the museum and every single place we went. I even stuck the label of this juice I drank, which is the tastiest juice I ever had.”

Nikhil Singh, 10 years, Pune

Travel Journal Checklist

  • A title for your trip (it could be funny, quirky, adventurous or simple)
  • A map (that includes places visited, street names, important locations/ spots, north direction, distances, major landmarks, etc.)
  • People you travelled with
  • Where you stayed
  • People you met and the interesting things they said
  • Places you visited and memorable moments
  • What you ate
  • How you travelled (cab, car, auto, train, flight, bus, rickshaw, by foot, etc.)
  • Signage that is unique (welcome to…, 10 km to .., metro ahead, etc.)
  • Stickers, tickets, stamps, wrappers, fallen leaves, flowers etc.
  • Things you bought
  • Do’s and don’ts that you can share with your friends later

3-D Art

You will need:

Mount board, tinted coloured papers, pencil, glue, scale, scissors, marker, double sided foam tape, textured paper, straws.

Tip: Stick the background coloured paper on the mount board to give it support.

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1. Draw the scene that you want on the coloured background paper using pencil. Here we have drawn a bridge.

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2. Draw the other parts of the scene on coloured paper, cut them out, and glue them on the background

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3. Cut straws in varying lengths according to where they have to be pasted and paste them there.

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4. Paste other parts of the scene by putting one, two or more layers of tape under it for the 3-D effect.

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5. Make sure you use different layers of tape to give each component a unique look.

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Use 4 layers of tape for the outer frame, and your 3D artwork is ready to hang on your wall!

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Make your own 3D art and send us photos at writetochampak@delhipress.in

Dignity 

You get dignity,

When you stop thinking wrong

When you do what you learn right

You can live dignified,

When you live a lifestyle that,

matches your vision.

You can get dignity

when you renounce the “ego of individuality”.

and rejoice ups and downs of life.

There is dignity,

when you have good thoughts,

in your heart and mind.

-Manasvi Mehra, 13 years

Gwalior

Summer

The warmth on my skin,

The heat on my face,

Humidity in the air,

The sweat after a race.

Longer days with fun and joy,

Is what summer brings.

The sky in a brilliant shade of blue,

And so many more things.

The cold, tingling feeling of the pool,

As our skin gives a sigh of relief.

Our minds thinking of the lazy days,

When nobody is in grief.

The sun shines merrily above the horizon,

Sharing its heat and light.

A smile on everybody’s face,

As our hearts are filled with delight!

– Harshita Das

– 11 years, Noida

Lovely as a Tree

I think I shall never see,

A poem lovely as a tree.

I like to see a pink flower,

But I don’t like to see plucked flower.

I like to hear the bird’s rhymes,

But I don’t like to do crimes.

I like to see plants increase,

But I don’t like to see plants decrease.

To plant a tree we take more time, To destroy a tree we take less time.

To destroy a tree we take less time.

Save trees for our generation.

K. M. Tarumika, 12 years Chennai

TRY, TRY AND TRY

Once there was a boy

And everyone thought,

He was a useless guy.

He always Failed,

In every exam

Be it First second or third,

Or the last, Final term.

Once he saw an art,

Who was trying to climb a wall.

Fell down, but tried again,

And then it did not

This lit up his inner soul,

He worked harder to achieve his goals.

And one day he went up so high,

That he Finally touched the sky!

IF you too want achievements,

Never, ever cry.

Just set your goals and aims,

And try try and try.

-Adya Tripathi

One Moment

One moment I was in the air,

Above the clouds, nowhere to be found.

One moment I was below the Earth,

In its core I was bound.

One moment I was in a palace,

And the other in a cottage so small.

One moment I was happy with a stick

And the other, I hated my expensive ball.

Time changes as we go,

We can’t follow it; it just goes,

Time is precious

So this is what we learnt folks!

Harshita Das

11 years, Noida

Stars

Countless stars in the sky,

I love to see them in the night.

When they twinkle in the night,

They bring to my heart, delight.

One shines, while another is shooting,

Everyone holds their breath while looking,

They come out in the night and hide in the day,

They steal my heart, in the month of May.

They brighten up the dark sky,

That is why we find them nice.

Countless stars in the sky,

I love to see them in the night.

-Anhad

15 years

Mukerian

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Materials Required:

Ice cream Sticks
Glue
Mount Board
Lights
Golden Acrylic Paint
Scissors
Brush
Pencil

 

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Tricolour Kite

Let’s make a tricolour kite!

You will need: Kite papers (orange, white and green), thread, broomsticks, scale, glue, scissors and pencil.

1. Fold the white kite paper in half. Draw a triangle on it as shown. Cut it and open it out.


2. Divide the cutout into three equal parts as shown.


3. Cut a triangle from the orange kite paper of the same size as the one on the white paper and stick over it.


4. Similarly, cut a triangle from the green kite paper and stick it over the triangle at the bottom.


5. Your kite will now look like the Indian flag, but without the chakra in the center.


6. Turn your kite over and glue a broomstick across the center as shown. Cut the broomstick to fit the length of the kite.


7. Slightly bend the second broomstick as shown.


8. Glue it horizontally across the kite as shown.


9. Make thin strips from orange, white and green kite papers.


10. Bunch the strips together and glue them to both sides of the kite.


11. Glue a thread to the bottom tip of the kite.


12. Cut out bow-shaped bits from orange, white and green kite papers.


13. Glue them along the thread in the order of the tricolour.


14. To fly the kite, tie one end of a spool of thread to the joints of the kite’s frame.

Your kite is now ready to fly!

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