Art Activities for teaching
Mexican Calendar Paintngs
This is a very special kind of art because these oil on canvas originals were used for printing thousands of actual calendar pages.
Suggested Teaching Questions:
1. What can you learn about Mexico through this painting?
2. What symbols can you find in the painting?
3. If you changed anything from the scene would it still be a Mexican Calendar Painting?

Suggested follow up activities:
1. Research how this paintings were printed.
2. Have children create their own calendar paintings based on their own customs
3. Research about famous calendar painting artists (how are they different? how are they similar)