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A tour book for curious kids, Grand Rapids Walking Tours invites active learning, fosters leadership skills, and encourages creativity – all while exploring beautiful downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan, with your family, class, or group.
- 8 walking tours with checkboxes for step-by-step directions
- Maps, illustrations, and special scripts for tour guides
- Fun facts, activities, and Quick Quiz Questions and answers
- Recommended restaurants and kid-friendly shops
- Suggested photo stops for genuine, creative, and silly snapshots
- Icons for bathrooms, picnic tables, and midway cutoff options
- An abundance of color photos
Whether teaching a social studies class, spending a morning downtown with nieces, nephews, or grand-kids, getting off campus to show a younger sibling around town, keeping the kids busy until mom or dad’s convention is done for the day, or seeking an activity to engage your precocious learner or fledgling leader, Grand Rapids Walking Tours Kids Can Lead is just plain fun.
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This book contains all that you need to know, what to say, and where to go as you lead a small group to the top attractions of downtown Grand Rapids. With step-by-step directions and clear instructions, you can become a tour guide yourself. Since every tour has a different theme, activities, distances, and stops, you may want to read them all and choose one or several to tour. Each tour includes recommended spots for photos and some ideas for serious, silly, and creative photo poses. Each trek has a page to add your own drawing or sketch or write down your ideas and experiences. The tours all conclude with a souvenir page to add your own finishing thoughts or a brochure or postcard from a favorite site, so the book becomes a treasured memory of your visit to downtown Grand Rapids.
– Grand Rapids Walking Tours, p. 10
Tom volunteered 10 years as a docent, tour guide, exhibit interpreter, and Volunteer Coordinator at the Grand Rapids Public Museum.
Tom Mulder Writes 