SPAIN: Don Quijote de La Mancha is a world-renowned, 900-page novel from Spain, written by Miguel de Cervantes way back in the 1600’s. Centuries later, Picasso made a sketch of the two main characters to commemorate the novel’s 350th anniversary.
After hearing and acting out the famous windmill chapter in class, students put a photocopy of Picasso’s sketch up to the window, place pastel-colored paper on top of it, and then trace-scribble the drawing with a Sharpie to create a two-tone replica. The class joke and icing on the cake was to cross out Picasso’s name and replace it with their own!
LINKS: Don Quijote & Sancho Panza1, Don Quijote & Sancho Panza2, Don Quixote- Cuentos Infantiles, WikiArt- Picasso, Picasso painting, Windmills – Modern, Windmills – Old Fashioned, Don Quijote- para niños (video), Don Quijote (song), The Impossible Dream1, The Impossible Dream2
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