This Land Is Your Land Art and Language Arts Activity Children create picture postcards for different aspects of the United States they learn about from songs. For example, they might illustrate places in California, New York Island, the redwood forest, or the Gulf Stream water. Have them direct their cards to classmates, using global addresses, then deliver them.
Children can use the song to stimulate visual images of what they want to draw.
Or you can help them find pictures of the locations in reference books. Have children locate each place on a map, point to it, and then find their own state. Use sticky notes to mark each location. The ask children which one is closest to home, which farthest away, and so forth. You may download, print and make copies of this page for use in your classroom, provided that you include the copyright notice shown below on all such copies.