Costa Rican Ox Carts and Paper Molas from Panama

For our lesson on Central America we created two different projects, the Costa Rican Ox Cart wheel as a group project and paper "Molas" for an individual project. I had the privilege of travelling to Costa Rica in 2014 for my fiance's cousin's wedding in Guanacaste so I showed the students some cool pictures of the animals we encountered on our travels there including monkeys, iguanas, and alligators. The Ox Cart is a very popular motif in Costa Rica so we created one for each class using the Playcolor paint pens (a freebie from the Art of Ed Conference). As some students we

re adding their marks and scribbles to the group "wheel", each student made a paper animal, using layered colored paper to mimic the layers of fabric Molas from Panama.