Dia de Los Muertos Crafts and Activities | counting cards | culture | writing

Many countries around the world celebrate a holiday called, Dia de Los Muertos also known as, the Day of the Dead. This holiday has been celebrated for over 2500 years and focuses on the souls of loved ones visiting the living and celebrating the life they lived with food, music, flowers, pictures and wonderful stories of those that have passed. Dia de Muertos turns the outlook of death into a celebratory event full of laughter, thanksgiving and even joyous events like parades! Not only will you find delicious food in the towns that celebrate but you will also see many people dressed in skeleton costumes and painted faces like Calavera or Sugar Skulls!

These activities on Dia de Los Muertos is a fun resource to use for the ever growing holiday with your pre-k/kindergarten class.

.Included in this product are the following activities:

Read and Write the Room

Count the Room

Sorting Sentences

How Many Shapes

Task card math

Decorate a skull

Dia de los Muertos hat

Note: You receive TWO versions of this product when you purchase it. One is the regular PDF and the other is digital so that your students can complete them on a device.   The TpT Digital Activity  will allow you to add additional customizations from the product page.

Standards

CCSSL.K.4a
Identify new meanings for familiar words and apply them accurately (e.g., knowing duck is a bird and learning the verb to duck).
CCSSL.K.4
Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on kindergarten reading and content.
CCSSL.K.2d
Spell simple words phonetically, drawing on knowledge of sound-letter relationships.
CCSSL.K.2a
Capitalize the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I.
CCSSK.CC.C.7
Compare two numbers between 1 and 10 presented as written numerals.
CCSSK.CC.B.5
Count to answer “how many?” questions about as many as 20 things arranged in a line, a rectangular array, or a circle, or as many as 10 things in a scattered configuration; given a number from 1-20, count out that many objects.
CCSSK.CC.A.2
Count forward beginning from a given number within the known sequence (instead of having to begin at 1).

Dia de los Muertos fact booklet and other cultural booklets may be found in our store!

Fact Booklet - El Dia De Los Muertos

Fact Booklet - Cultural Diversity

Designing El Dia de los Muertos Ofrenda

Fact Booklet - Cinco de Mayo

Dia de Los Muertos A How to Draw Directed Activity

I hope you enjoy this product!

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