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Día de los Muertos for your Spanish class

A ready-to-teach culture lesson that shows students why Día de los Muertos is not Halloween, and lets them make something to keep.

  • A 10-page student activity magazine, in color, copy-safe and black & white
  • A 15-slide deck that follows the magazine page by page
  • A teacher guide with a two-day plan and answer key
  • A podcast video with Sofía, from Mexico City, and Ethan, from New York
  • Two hands-on crafts: paper calaveritas, with a cut-out template, to hang as classroom decor or string into a banner, and how to make real sugar skulls
See what's inside

Slides, a podcast and more

Slide deck: Día de los Muertos cover slide
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Slides that teach

A deck that follows the magazine page by page, with photos, culture and quick checks, ready to project. In PowerPoint and PDF.

A slide from the deck
Sofía and Ethan record the podcast at an ofrenda
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The podcast video

Sofía, from Mexico City, tells Ethan, from New York, what Día de los Muertos really is. Students listen for the answers in the magazine.

Teacher guide cover
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The teacher guide

A two-day plan, timing for every page and the full answer key, so you can teach it tomorrow.

Students' hands decorating sugar skulls with bright icing
Magazine page 07: Tu calaverita, the paper craftMagazine page 08: La de verdad, the real sugar-skull methodMagazine page 09: the calaverita template
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Two crafts to make

Paper calaveritas with a cut-out template: hang them as classroom decor or string them into a banner. Plus how real sugar skulls are made, step by step, to run over two days or as a club.

Why teachers love it

Culture students remember

No prepPrint the magazine and teach. The plan and the answers are in the guide.
Real cultureThe ofrenda piece by piece, La Catrina and the real story behind Posada's print.
Hands-onStudents design their own paper calaverita. Hang them up as classroom decor or string them into a banner.

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