Make It

3. Finally, talk with your family and think of an adventure or trip you would like to take or a goal or project you would like to accomplish. This will be your family mission.

Give your mission a symbolic name (such as after a story or character from history a book you've read), and then draw, paint, or use a computer to create a logo to represent your plan or goal. A good logo usually contains fairly simple lines, colors, and shapes to make an eye-catching image in which the name and different parts all stand for something.

Now display your logo: make a poster and hang it on your refrigerator or front door—or even consider getting t-shirts made!