Here is my "Oh, the Places You'll Go" 3D hot air balloon. I made this project out of construction paper. After reading the book "Oh, the Places You'll Go" by Dr. Seuss, the class created their own hot air balloons that included the places you'd like to potentially go in your life. The places I chose included: Paris, Los Angeles, New York City, and Egypt. After drawing these places on my balloon, I put the project together with string.
An extension activity I would do with this project involves a 3rd grade classroom or higher. I would do this activity to go along with a social studies lesson. After reviewing the history of a specific location, such as Africa, the students would draw historical information or areas that they learned about from the lesson. After drawing their historical material on their construction paper, they would cut their pieces out to create a hot air balloon like the one shown above. As the teacher, I would then have students discuss what they drew on their hot air balloon about Africa and hang them up around the room. The idea of the lesson would be to give the students the feeling they are flying to Africa in a hot air balloon.

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