Lesson Plan

Día de los Muertos Lesson Plan

Marigolds, papel picado and a week of remembering with love.

Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) is a Mexican tradition where families remember the people they love with flowers, food, stories and light. In this week, kids build a family ofrenda, cut papel picado, make paper marigolds, decorate a calavera, bake pan de muerto and follow the monarch butterflies to Mexico.

Each level gets its own five-day plan: read Monday, write Tuesday, explore Wednesday, make Thursday, present Friday. A grown-up guide explains the meaning of the day and how to say each word. Warm, educational and never spooky.

What's inside

• Three ready-to-teach plans: Littles (K-3), Middles (4-6) and Bigs (7-8)
• A grown-up guide to the meaning of the day, with how to say each word
• Hands-on: papel picado banner, paper marigolds, a calavera to decorate
• A pan de muerto recipe with kitchen math
• Parts of an Ofrenda label sheet, sort cards, lab sheet and monarch sequence cards
• My Remembering Card for your ofrenda
• Word search, crossword or maze, scramble, secret code, fact cards and word cards
• Certificate and answer key, 78 pages, US letter size

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