Dia de los Muertos

What does Dias de los Muertos mean?

• Day of the Mortars

• Day of the Mouse

• Day of the Skull

• Day of the Dead

What is an ofrenda?

• An ofrenda is a table for a big meal for your family and friends

• An ofrenda is a skull made of sugar and decorated with icing and glitter

• An ofrenda is a photo of an ancestor in a small metal frame

• An ofrenda is a temporary altar full of offerings to ancestors

What is something you might find on an ofrenda?

• Marigolds

• Photos of ancestors

• Offerings of food

• All these things

What is papel picado

• Cut paper banners

• Special bread for ancestors

• Paper flowers

• Sugar skulls

What are calavera?

• Cut paper banners

• Special bread for ancestors

• Sugar skulls

• Small photos of ancestors

What is pan de muerto?

• Cut paper banners

• sugar skulls

• bread for ancestors

• paper flowers

Items on the ofrenda represent

• Halloween decorations

• Earth, Wind, Fire, and Water

• Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico, El Salvador, Belize, Costa Rica, and Guatemala

• Food to eat

What other items might you find on an ofrenda?

• Halloween decorations

• Anything your ancestors enjoyed when they were alive

• Pictures of living people

• Scary things

Why do people dress up as skeletons for Dias de los Muertos?

• To be scary

• Because it's Halloween

• To worship death

• So that the ancestors don't feel ugly or grotesque.

Why are Dias de los Muertos skeletons and skulls pretty and not scary?

• To show respect for our ancestors

• Because people just like pretty things

• Because there are little kids around

• Because people don't like scary things