Day Of The Dead
Includes History,celebration,and Decorations
This paper is about Day Of the Dead and its cultural dances, decorations, celebrations, and their history.
History
The day of the dead started in Mexico on November 1st and ended November 2nd.The day is to remember the people that died and they celebrate it for 2 days. They dress in a cultural outfits to dance and celebrate to the people that died. On November 1st they celebrate the dead children and on November 2nd they celebrate the adults that died. This day is sort of like Halloween because they celebrate and dance.
Celebration
They celebrate by painting their faces like skulls and making sugar skull which is a candy shaped skulls and they dance for other people. People play music, dance, sing, and say things to their loved ones that died they say it in the two days.
Decorations
They decorate their faces to look like skulls and they paint it with a lot of colors. They decorate the graves, because they want the people who died to celebrate too. They also sell, eat, and make sugar skulls for the celebration so every one has a tasty treat.
Food
The Mexicans eat sugar skulls which is a candy shaped skull, tamales which is wrapped corn dough, candied pumpkin which is a cooked pumpkin, and hot cocoa which is sweet not spicy.
Sugar skulls
The sugar skulls represent life when the person was alive and living. The sugar skull also means that when the person has it put it by the grave and they can feel them in presents.
Grave
This picture is a grave spot where the people have been buried and put in the grave. The flowers represent love and the candles represent life. when they put decorations on the grave it sprits the person or people that died.
Celebration Mask
This is how they would decorate their faces for the celebration. They would paint their faces like skulls and dance for the people who died.
Tamales
Tamales are a wrapped cornmeal dough it either corn husk or dry banana leaves.
Hot Chocolate
Hot Chocolate is a not spicy but a hot drink it is made up of ground cocoa and milk.
Pumpkin Pie
Pumpkin Pie in Mexico is a pale orange-yellow squash with a hard is much more common than the dark orange pumpkin, and it is usually cooked until it's soft with brown sugar and cinnamon, rather than cut into a jack-o-lantern or used in pies.