Category: Halloween

Day of the Dead

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With Halloween approaching, we are going to meet a Mexican tradition full of color and music, the Day of the Dead.

Along with sugar skulls, flower decorations and sand designs, paper banners are a special part of this beautiful celebration. “Papel picado” is the Mexican art of cutting tissue paper to make elaborate banners. This folk art is displayed for all sorts of religious ceremonies as well as personal celebrations, but especially for the Day of the Dead (November 1 and 2). Choose your favourite design from the options above (or design your own!) and prepare your “papel picado” at home. Bring it along to our next class, we’ll get ready for the Day of the Dead “Mexican style”!

Papel Picado template 1

Papel Picado template 2

Here you can find some information about the origins of Halloween