Day of the Dead
Kids’ Websites
Day of the Dead Altars
Visit this site to see a traditional Day of the Dead altar and click to learn why each item is included.
 
Reading Rainbow Book Review
Click to hear a “kid like you” review the book A Gift For Abuelita: Celebrating the Day of the Dead, a video clip from the PBS series Reading Rainbow.

 

Make a “Pancho” Skeleton Puppet  
Visit this site to print off templates so that you can create your own skeleton puppet.

 

Day of the Dead
Visit this site to learn about the Day of the Dead and follow links to make a “calaverita.”  The word “calavera” means skull in Spanish, but is also the name of a lot of things relating to the dead — poems, drawings, candy skulls and more.

[Also see related activity sites in the Kid Zone section of this Witte TeleVentures section.] 

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