Costa Rican OxCart

My 4th graders created these fun and colorful carts for our Tropical Rainforest Unit.



Inspiration

The traditional oxcart, or carreta,is Costa Rica’s most famous type of craft. 







From the mid-nineteenth century, oxcarts were used to transport coffee beans from Costa Rica’s central valley over the mountains to Puntarenas on the Pacific coast, a journey requiring ten to fifteen days.