One of Peace Corp's initiatives world wide has been to paint a map of the world onto a wall somewhere in your community. In communities that usually lack educational resources like atlases or world maps, this can help your students learn about the world. A volunteer in the 80s in the Dominican Repiblic originally came up with the idea and created the guide for other PCVs to use.
This first step is drawing up a grid on the wall. The grid serves for later drawing the map.

Afterwards, you want to use the guide grids and your grid to slowly pass the map. No free-handed drawing skills necessary. Just lots of tedious copying. Luckily, I had my family visiting so I put them to work.

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What a great gift to the school and the village, Abby. I love seeing it complete. <><
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