Scribble Maps - Draw on google maps with scribblings and more! Homemade Lewis and Clark Journals | Our Journey Westward. Lewis and Clark kept wonderfully detailed journals as they charted unknown American territory in the early 1800′s. Their journals included everything from a daily diary of events to sketches and descriptions of new plants and animals along the way to maps of the land around them.
To help my children understand the scope of what was included in the Lewis and Clark journals, we created worn leather journals from old paper bags in which I asked the kids to jot down all sorts of notes throughout one of our homeschool days. The journals…. Take a flat section of brown paper bag and crinkle it up until it looks like worn leather when smoothed out again. Carefully burn the edges to give the journal even more of a weathered look. Line several sheets of white paper on top of the paper bag. Lay the papers on top of a piece of wood. Use whatever string you desire (we used raffia) and whatever lacing method you desire to lace the pages together. Here’s what we included in the journals throughout the day… Geography & Environment. World Map, Map of the World.