COLOMBIA: Is Guatapé, Colombia the world’s most colorful town? Each year, second graders paint colorful buildings and houses on tri-folds, and set up the cardboard in two lines so that they can ‘walk’ through town, stopping at various businesses and mercados along the way. The Señor Wooly song, “¿Adónde vas?” works well with this unit. *Image Credit Jessica Devnani & Saul Mercado

This year, kindergarteners also learned about finger painting street art in Colombia, and then mimicked the style on their whiteboards. I have seen this done on mirrors as well, but use whatever you have:

• Bubble Wrap + Paint
• Yogurt + Kool-Aid
• MORE IDEAS HERE!!
• Another Idea

Videos

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LINKS: Painting the Town- Part 1, Painting the Town- Part 2, TEDx- Take Back Your City With Paint, World’s Most Colorful Cities

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Pink Dolphins

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Rock of Guatapé

In Guatapé, Colombia, there is also the famous Peñón de Guatapé–a 70-million-year-old rock that stands 656 feet high. Students did a long-division problem to figure out how many of them standing on their clones’ heads would be that tall, and then used Popsicle sticks to build the staircase up the side of the rock (or, in our case, the side of the classroom wall).