Calavera para Día de los muertos

Here you have another calavera. I think I will show it to my students next Día de las muertos! =)

Check it out: Rosaleen Gallagher, a blogger shares this calavera picture and she explains how to do face paint yourself. She is an artist!

Actividades para dia de los muertos / Dia de los muertos activities

For lower grades, I have read the book titled "The day of the dead" / "El dia de los muertos" by Bob Barner and translated by Teresa Mlawer.

For higher grades, I show them a Power Point presentation and we talk about Dia de los muertos. Many pictures are shown, so students see real examples of Dia de los muertos.

Dia de los muertos

We discuss Dia de los muertos and I show them examples of Sugar skulls and decorate calaveras.

Here you can find the calaveras worksheet:

For lower grades:

Female version: Check out the girl version of this calaca, click here.

Male version: For a male version of this calaca, you can click here.

For higher grades:

 For 4th and 5th, we are using this site that has a good T chart explaining the differences between Dia de los Muertos and Halloween. Then, using the chart, students complete a Venn diagram comparing the two holidays.