Geofiction: design a banknote

You need:

1. drawing paper 15 by 7 cm
2. colour pencils or markers

Another task that belongs to geofiction (Design your own country - see other posts in the category geofiction), is the design of a banknote and coins. Students get small sheets and design a banknote with something special for their selfmade country. This may be a historical figure, a special animal or someone who is important for the country. Don't forget to put on the value of the banknote!

Banknotes made by students of 12 years old

Geofiction: design an alphabet

You need:

1. drawing paper A4 size
2. colour pencils

Another task that belongs to geofiction (Design your own country - see other posts in the category geofiction), is the design of an alphabet. This can be an alphabet in which our characters are replaced by a letter that are one or two places further in the alphabet, but it can also be a drawn alphabet. In the artwork above every letter is replaced by a little drawing of something that starts with that letter. Of course this example is in Dutch: n = neus/nose, m = maan/moon. The students who designed this alphabet, evenmade seperate characters for our Dutch double vowels!

Geofiction: Design your own stamp

You need:

1. white drawing paper 15 by 10 cm
2. colour pencils
3. markers
4. pattern scissors

Geofiction is fictional geography: devising, designing and developing a geo, a fictional geographic entity. In most cases the geo is a country, but it can be any kind of geographic area: a city, a region, a federation of countries, a planet, a star system, it doesn't matter. With an imaginary country you can do many things, like:

- draw maps, make flags, money, stamps , pieces of art;
- design and develop languages, transport systems, music, culture, religions, political systems;
- write or tell stories using the imaginary geographic area as a background;

We do geofiction in the last group of elementary school as a a mean of education. One of the things that has to be made is a stamp for the imaginary country. After drawing and colouring it, the edges have to be cut with pattern scissors.

Made by students of 12 years old