The day of the dead is just around the corner! Doing a lesson about the Mexican holiday celebration can be a great way to integrate culture into your World Language classroom. I have put together a list of resources to help you get some ideas.
Día de los muertos interactive websites
A few other websites for lessons and information about Día de los muertos are: National Geographic Kids
Google Arts and Culture-Day of the dead
These sites includes information along with pictures to show students cultural examples about the holiday celebration.
Looking for crafty projects for Día de los muertos? Below are a few sites with lots of projects and craft ideas.
Digital Papel Picado Google Slides Project by Google
In this lesson, you'll learn how to create your own traditional Mexican folk art using a papel picado template and patterns in Google Slides.
This no-prep project contains a lesson plan, sample rubric, step-by-step vide instructions/tutorials and even a certificate of completion.
You can access the Create Papel Picado in Google Slides project here.
Hello Kids Has numerous pages giving students an option to color online or print and color.
Scrumdilly-do Make paper plate calavera masks.
Growing up bilingual 25 Day of the dead DIY projects.
The Crafty Chica Has over 100 Día de los muertos projects.
The Crafty Cow Has lots of fun project ideas to choose from.
AzCentral Día de los muertos Teacher Packet get the teacher packet here.
Looking for some great videos to help tie everything together. Below are a some great options.
Dia De Los Muertos (Day Of The Dead) – A Brief Explainer
(SCHOOL FRIENDLY) What is El Dia De Los Muertos? by Eddie G!
5 Things You Didn’t Know About Day of the Dead
Dia de los Muertos | Film School Shorts
Día de Muertos (movietalk) TeachVid activity
Un altar de muertos TeachVid activity
La Llorona (Carmen Goett) TeachVid activity
Learn about Day of the Dead: Symbols and Ofrendas (in English) Edpuzzle
Free No-Prep Día de los muertos Google Slides Resources
Below are some wonderful ready-made resources shared by the AWESOME members of the Tech for World Language Teachers Facebook group community.
Most of these are Google Slides resources. Be sure to make a copy so add it to your Google Drive.
Día de los muertos board by Joy McKenzie
Frida Kahlo/Day of the Dead - By Tracey Devers
Coloring Calaveritas Pear Deck activity by Eunice Kullick.
Las Partes del Cuerpo y Cara by Rachel Johnson
Day of the Dead Coco Google Slides presentation by Priscilla Quezada
Dia de los Muertos Vocabulario by Viv Stokes
Discover the Day of the Dead Choice Board
Breakout EDU Digital Escape Game
El Secreto de la Catrina Digital Escape game created by Julie Ogden Thompson.
Want to make a cool day-of-the-dead presentation for your students? Download this free Day of the Dead presentation template from Slides Carnival. The template is available in Google Slides and Powerpoint.
There are some more really great looking Day of the Dead Presentation Slides by Slidesgo you can check out the Dia de Muertos Presentation Slides here.
Slides Mania Dia de los Muertos Free template for Google Slides or PowerPoint
Interactive Games
Hope you find these resources helpful! Let me know below which ones you plan on using with your students?
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