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Dia de los muertos
Hi . For spainish i have to make a visual-poster for the day of the dead. I have NO IDEA what to do. It has to look mexican .. im planning on using either white or black psterboard. Any ides what to put on it ? Something easy and inexpensive .. its due tomorrow ( no im not a procrastinator i just got it friday and i was gone all yesterday and friday night ! ) At the top il prbly put dia de los muertos in red letters .. and i have to write a paragrph describing the difference between halloween and day of the dead .. but im not worried about that . I think theres something with a bride and groom skeletons right ? so maybe i can draw them or something ? PLEASE give me some ideas !! thanks !
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i think around the poster you should make it like orange and black with skeletons everywhere. also do you go to hoover because we have the same project in spanish?
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I'm actually Argentine instead of Mexican, but we have family members in Mexico. Definitely use black posterboard, because Dia de los Muertos honors the dead. Yeah, often times there are bride and groom skeletons, but they don't necessarily have to be bride and groom. They would make nice decorations. If you don't like drawing, you can print pictures from the Internet. Here are some to start with:
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You should also get pictures of like the food and activities from a book or the Internet. But whatever you do, you HAVE to get pictures of the sweets. During Dia de Los Muertos, Mexicans totally go to town on sugar. Here are some more pics:
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To make everything look more Mexican, get some brightly colored crepe paper, and cut slits in the side to make fringe. Then glue it on the edges of the posterboard and on the edges of the pictures. It would look nice!
Hope this was helpful! Good luck with your project! If you need more help, you can drop a word in my inbox.
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I'm not an expert on the Day of the Dead, however, you might want to try these websites. And yes, the bride and groom skeletons are a part of the tradition. Sort of like American jack-o-lanterns or trick-or-treating. Just part of the day.
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I think drawing - or perhaps painting - the bride and groom skeletons would be a wonderful idea. Or perhaps make them out of a collage, using different colored bits of paper. Or, if you don't have that much time, at least print a few pictures of them off the Internet. ;)
-FunnyCide
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Try drawing a grave yard with people around the grave's and have ghost's coming out of the graves! it would look sooo awsome! ............ and for making it look mexican, put a mexican syle border on the edges of it!!!
g-luck!!!!
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This celebration is traced to many Mesoamerican native traditions and ritually presided by the "Lady of the Dead", and dedicated to children and the dead. In the Aztec calendar, this ritual fell roughly at the end of the Gregorian month of July and the beginning of August, but after the Spanish conquest it was moved by Spanish priests so that it coincided with the Christian holiday of All Hallows Eve. This was one of many efforts to transform local pagan holidays into a Christian celebration. The result is that Mexicans now celebrate the day of the dead during the first two days of November, rather than at the beginning of summer. The modern festivity is characterized by the traditional Mexican blend of ancient aboriginal and introduced Christian features. The holiday's activities consist of families welcoming their dead back into their homes, and visiting the graves of their close kin. At the cemetery, family members engage in sprucing up the gravesite, decorating it with flowers, setting out and enjoying a picnic, and interacting socially with other family and community members who gather there. In both cases, celebrants believe that the souls of the dead return and are all around them. Families remember the departed by telling stories about them. The meals prepared for these picnics are sumptuous, usually featuring meat dishes in spicy sauces, chocolate beverages, cookies, sugary confections in a variety of animal or skull shapes. Gravesites and family altars are profusely decorated with flowers, and adorned with religious amulets and with offerings of food, cigarettes and alcoholic beverages. Because of this warm social environment, the colorful setting, and the abundance of food, drink and good company this is a highly revered holiday.
There is a celebration that is similar to this that is practiced right here in the United States. It is called All Saints Day. This is practiced in New Orleans and the people do much of the same things they do in Mexico. People go to the gravesites of their loved ones and wash their gravesites. This tradition may have started here because both the French and Spanish started New Orleans. Cajuns are the mix of French and Spanish.
Good Luck!
LULABELLE
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I'm not mexican but these girls in my class did a presentation on it last year. On their poster they had a picture of a grave and explained how people spent the night there or something. I google-image searched Day Of the Dead and you can do that too. There might be ideas of what to draw or print out and paste on your poster.
goood luck
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Make it look like an altar.
Search "Day of the Dead Altar" and look for some of the things people put on them. Then you can put pictures or drawings of those on your poster.
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