Día de Muertos
Discover the meaning of Dia de Muertos and learn how children all around the world celebrate this festival.
Pancho and his family are inviting you to celebrate with them! Join in as they prepare in the lead-up to the festival, setting up the ofrendas, finding photographs of beloved family members, decorating with flowers, cutting out skull patterns, cooking tamales and enjoying a wonderful day with all the family.
Along the way, you’ll learn all about the significance and history of the festival, brought to even more life with:
- Instructions to make your own papel picado
- A recipe to make delicious pan de muerto
- A fun quiz to try out all your knowledge
In this immersive exploration of Dia de Muertos, kids join a family as they celebrate. Seen through the eyes of young children celebrating themselves, this is a simple and exciting way to introduce little ones to this special period.
In the Celebrations & Festivals series, you are invited into a family's celebrations as you explore the magic and excitement of religious and cultural festivals around the world.
Jaque Jours started out doing technical drawings, but characters soon found their way in, leading her to storytelling. She is now an author and book illustrator. For her, Día de Muertos is about the stories that emerge from memories, she also loves eating pan de muerto, el papel picado, and the scent of cempasúchil flowers.