The second grade students in my Spanish as a foreign language group made these beautiful masks with papier mache horns. The masks are worn at Carnival which coincides with Mardi Gras and combines Caribbean and African cultures. Vejigantes, the Spanish name for the masks, date back hundreds of years. Our designs were inspired from those made famous in Ponce, Puerto Rico. Too bad we couldn't make a field trip out of it!
*Read more about Carnival traditions and mask making in the links I have added to the list on the right hand side of this page.
