09/05/2020
Enjoy this wide-ranging and comprehensive array of resources for you and your family, for homeschooling, and for online educators to celebrate Día de los Mu***os virtually this year. These museum-from-home packets include the history and culture, traditional foods and recipes, and a robust section on arts and crafts materials for teachers and students of all ages.
We include how to build an altar and the meaning of the items displayed on it. Family craft activities, such as papel picado making, skull face painting, paper flower, and paper mask making, and other styles of mask making, sugar and plaster skull decorating, hat decorating, and more. We offer traditional recipes you can make at home and share on the altar and with each other.
In 2010, SOHO founded the first Old Town San Diego community-wide Dia de los Mu***os celebration. The holiday, known also as Day of the Dead, is observed annually on November 1 and 2, and celebrates the unity of life and death, and is considered by many to be the most important holiday of the year i...