Colombia - including Ocean Animals

    This post contains affiliate links.

Check out our virtual trip to Australia here. 

Check out our virtual trip to Brazil here.

See this post for the passport and stamps that we used.

Be sure to check out my Pinterest board with these and more ideas.

We spent a lot of time learning about Colombia and some ocean animals. Being that Colombia borders on 2 oceans, we delved into sharks, humpback whales and sea turtles. We really enjoyed learning about them. We learned a bit of Spanish. We cooked lots of Colombian food. Finally, we really enjoyed getting glimpses of beautiful places in Colombia.

FOOD:

We made lots of different Colombian foods. We really enjoyed trying out the new flavors. I made all these recipes.

• Huevos Pericos (Colombian Scrambled Eggs With Onions & Tomato)
  
• Aliños Colombianos (Seasoning Paste)
  
• Chuleta de Pollo (Colombian-Style Breaded Chicken Breast) This was delicious and now it's become a weekly staple.
  
• Homemade Arequipe or Dulce de Leche This was out of this world. We added it to homemade ice cream.
  
• Copycat Sazon Goya with Azafran I couldn't find this spice mix so I used this recipe to create my own and used it in various recipes. Scroll down on the link to get to the spice recipe.
  
• Flour Empanadas I used this recipe for the dough and filled it with chicken filling from the following recipe.
  
• Chicken filling for empanadas
  

PLACES:

• Guatape - Click here to see photos of this beautiful and colorful city.
• EL PEÑOL - GIANT ROCK IN GUATAPÉ, COLOMBIA Click here to view a travel vlog about climbing the rock.
• Caño Cristales - Here is a another video about the famous Rainbow river

ART:

Here is a tutorial on how to draw a sloth

Here is one on how to draw a sea turtle

• We learned about Sharks and did this craft

• We did this fun flamingo craft. I printed out an outline of a flamingo. We then filled it with pink/red/purple sequins and buttons.

• Caño Cristales - I showed my child photos of the Rainbow river and she drew her own version

• Guatape - We looked at photos linked above and drew our own colorful houses

BOOKS WE READ:

  

Colombian Culture: These are beautiful books and we really enjoyed them.
    

   

VIDEOS WE WATCHED:

Waiting for the Biblioburro read aloud

Biblioburro read aloud

Spanish greetings for kids

Humpback whales

Pink nosed dolphins

Flamingos

Sharks

Sea turtles

Esmeraldero - Emerald mining in Colombia

Sloth

Feel free to pin this post for later!

Click here to explore other countries with us.