Back to the colonies

El Morro Elementary School was transformed into a colonial-era village, complete with wigwam, Monday and Tuesday for the school’s annual Colonial Days.

Fifth-graders kicked off the two-day event with a musical, and a storyteller told the kids how the pilgrims would have made their journey across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492 by sailing ship.

Kids dressed up in colonial garb and tried their hand at crafts of the period, including candle-making, rope-making, silversmithing, leather tooling and making corn husk dolls. In the wigwam, kids experienced Native American crafts and activities such as scraping corn off the cob with a shell, grinding grain in a mateta, beading and stick sharpening.

— Cindy Frazier