Some activities to perform with links of good videos and information

1. Efol Ideas for celebration of Halloween and Day of death
STAGE CONTENTS ACTIVITIES TIME MATERIAL PRODUCT
Intro Introducing
basic
vocabulary
Presentation about celebration over the world.
Presentation of this celebration in Mexico
(offerings, meaning, catrina, Guadalupe
Posadas and Catrina, ask for calaverita) and
USA (Halloween, trick or treat) in a general
way.
Instructions of stages (at the end, they must
have collected some items like pieces of a
puzzle or basic parts to make and set a
Mexican offering).
Amount of information can vary according to
age.
Videos
Pictures
World map
+ + + The next link include a video about
world celebrations.
https://youtu.be/23Alr6u4sJs
Catrina story:
https://culturacolectiva.com/historia/origen-
e-historia-de-la-catrina/
More videos about this celebration:
https://youtu.be/oj7nsq48BcQ
https://youtu.be/24CWzxofIno
https://youtu.be/p-NxTJA_Pyw
None
1 Colors
Clothes
Participants must create and decorate a Catrina Crepe orange, purple, black, white, green
Wood sticks
Glue
Scissors
Worksheet pattern of skeleton
Colors or markers
Catrina

2. 2 Food, drinks
and offering
elements,
colors
In a brief way, Teacher explain meaning of
offering, legends or something about it and
learners must create a mini offering after
explanation with all the elements. If they are
adults they must try to remember the meanings
too.
Play dough
Paper Crepe or China
Mini Offering

3. 3 Monsters
vocabulary
Learners listen music identifying some words
of vocabulary.
They must sing and dance a part of
choreography that they chose according to age.
They also can play a game collocating the
correct name of monster in each picture
(building each letter if they are adults or only
placing it in the correct monster if they are
children).
Videos
https://youtu.be/Hu_Tpf_yGuo vocabulary
monsters
https://youtu.be/aKUQwdlfvAs Karaoke
https://youtu.be/OgcqDIoXqUM Dance
https://youtu.be/xqrxW-pEq3Q
https://youtu.be/m9We2XsVZfc
https://youtu.be/sOnqjkJTMaA
https://youtu.be/6M6samPEMpM
https://youtu.be/xpvdAJYvofI
https://youtu.be/3PU4d5Iogd4
https://youtu.be/PhvpoM4rNoo
https://youtu.be/4jxcWlq3CBg
https://youtu.be/4jxcWlq3CBg
https://youtu.be/trDl36m9pgA
https://youtu.be/Cpf-VBF45kQ
Dance, sing, or
both according
to age and
worksheet.
4 Halloween
vocabulary
Teacher explain about the trick or treat and
calaverita traditions, so learners must make a
candy bag as a pumpkin, skull or cat.
According to age technique can vary must
paste or sew up it.
Fieltro orange, black or white.
Glue or silicon
Scissors
Foamy
Or
Candy Bag

4. Plastic Dishes
Vinci or acrylic paint.
Paint brushes
Glue
Foamy

5. Learners
create a sempasuchitl flower
Crepe
Wood sticks
Glue
scissors
Cempoaxochitl
flower
Final Learners perform the final puzzle (Posadas) or
offering or a big poster decorated.
(Offering could be 2D in the wall and hey have
to paste pictures of the items collected in each
stage like fruit, bread, flowers and more).
Items collected in each stage it could be:
Pieces of puzzle
Or
Items for an offering.
Big puzzle or
offering.
By Rocio Zecua Tapia