Share a day of your life
Create a one day photo or drawing journal with captions, arranging events into a timeline and sharing your daily routine with family or class.
Step-by-step guide to create a one-day photo or drawing journal sharing a day of your life
My Daily Routine for Kids
Step 1
Choose whether you will make a photo journal or a drawing journal today.
Step 2
Write a list of 6 to 10 events from your day that you want to include.
Step 3
Add the time next to each event so you know the order for your timeline.
Step 4
Open your paper and draw a title with today’s date and a long line for your timeline.
Step 5
Mark equal spaces along the timeline where each picture and caption will go.
Step 6
Create a picture for each event by taking a photo or drawing the scene.
Step 7
Write a short caption under each picture that has the time and one sentence about what happened or how you felt.
Step 8
Arrange the pictures in time order on the timeline and attach them with glue or tape.
Step 9
Add colours stickers arrows or labels to decorate and make the flow easy to follow.
Step 10
Take a photo or scan of your finished journal and share your creation on DIY.org.
Final steps
You're almost there! Complete all the steps, bring your creation to life, post it, and conquer the challenge!
Help!?
What can we use instead of a scanner, stickers, or glue if we don't have them?
Use your smartphone camera to photograph the finished timeline instead of a scanner, replace stickers with colored pencils or cut paper for the 'Add colours stickers arrows or labels' step, and use clear tape or a glue stick when you 'attach them with glue or tape'.
What should we do if the pictures don't line up or the timeline looks messy?
Use a ruler to 'Mark equal spaces along the timeline', lay out all pictures in time order without gluing to test spacing, and trim or resize photos so they fit before you 'attach them with glue or tape'.
How can I adapt this activity for younger or older kids?
For younger kids choose 4–6 simple events with drawings and parent help for writing times and gluing, while older kids can include 8–10 events, use real photos, write more detailed one-sentence captions, and add labels or arrows for clarity.
How can we enhance or personalize the journal beyond the basic instructions?
Personalize it by color-coding events with markers, adding mood icons next to each caption, decorating with washi tape or arrows, or scanning the finished journal and turning it into a digital slideshow to share on DIY.org.
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Facts about journaling and visual storytelling for kids
🎨 Great artists like Leonardo da Vinci and Pablo Picasso used sketchbooks to capture ideas — your drawing journal follows a long creative habit.
📸 People take over 1 trillion photos worldwide every year — your one-day photo journal adds to a massive global collection!
📝 Samuel Pepys kept a famous diary from 1660–1669 that historians use to learn about life in 17th-century London.
🗣️ Sharing a daily journal is a mini show-and-tell — classrooms have used show-and-tell for generations to boost storytelling and confidence.
🕰️ Timelines help you see the order of events clearly — arranging your day this way makes it easier to spot patterns and routines.
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