Market Day Mural

For this activity you can start by reading the book La Surprise de Handa (Handa's surprise), which is also available on youtube.

Through this book you can explain the significance and importance of carrying objects and produce in a basket on your head. You can find this practice being used in many African francophone countries.
Once you have read and explained you can begin creating this market day mural that you can purchase on this website http://projecthopeart.org/2012/03/02/haiti-market-day-mural/

The mural is divided up into many different sections. Depending which size you choose to print off every child in your class will be able to decorate a part of the mural

Here some some examples of sections students drew in my classroom

And here is the finished product!

I liked this project because the students were able to engage in teamwork.

I hope you can try this out!

-Mme. Skoog