1. The foods Pan de Muerto Calabaza en Tacha Atole
List at least
3 foods Ingredients Ingredients Ingredients
used in this 1/4 cup milk 1 4 to 5 lbs Pumpkin 1/3 cup masaharina
holiday 1/4 cup (half a stick) approx. flour
that are not margarine or butter, cut 8 Cinnamon sticks 3 cups water, mixed
common to into 8 pieces Juice of 1 Orange with
any other 1/4 cup sugar 4 cups water 2 cups milk
holiday. 1/2 teaspoon salt 2 lbsPiloncillo ( you can 1/4 teaspoon salt
Include 1 package active dry use brown sugar or 2 (3 ounce) disks
description yeast raw sugar) mexican chocolate
s, recipes 1/4 cup very warm water Description (Nestle'sAbuelita and
and how 2 eggs A candied pumpkin the Mexican Ibarra
the food is 3 cups all-purpose flour, Significance brands are commonly
significant. unsifted The Calabaza en Tacha is found in Spanish
1/2 teaspoon anise seed used as a decoration food bodegas)
1/4 teaspoon ground for the altars that honor the Description
cinnamon dead. Mexican hot chocolate
2 teaspoons sugar Significance
Description It used as an offering
Sweetened soft bread that to warm the spirits as
is often shaped like a bone they go on their journey
in circle with a teardrop in
the center
Significance
Pan de muerto is
essential when celebrating
"El Día de los Muertos"
simply because it carries
tradition and it is the bread
Mexicans share with
families at the table.

2. The arts
List at least
3 art form
used in this
holiday
that are not
common to
any other
holiday.
Include
description
Day of the Dead Wire and Sugar skulls
s, pictures, Paper Mache Skulls/
Clay Sculpture
drawings Skeletons
and how These decorative skulls
Created in a comical tone, have the name of the It can be used be used
they are
unique to bursting with personality deceased on the forehead an altar centerpiece
Day of the and color, these skeletons and are decorated with decoration that is
Dead. remind us that the holiday stripes, dots and swirls of surrounded by
is always about fun and icing to enhance the marigolds
features of the skulls.
love!
These designs are usually
whimsical and brightly
colored, not morbid or
scary. Feathers, beads or
colored foils are "glued" on
with the icing to create
highly ornate skulls.
The history The Day of the Dead The Aztec culture had set a The American culture
and celebrations in Mexico can date for this holiday and it had integrated their
beginnings be traced back to its integrated the celebration own beliefs into The
of the indigenous pagan cultures. of Catrina. Day of the Dead like
holiday Rituals celebrating the remembering those who
List at least deaths of ancestors had died for us in war
3 aspects been observed by these
of the civilizations perhaps for as
history of long as 2,500–3,000 years.
Day of the The pagan culture sets a
Dead. base for this holiday.
Include
what
cultures
blended to
contribute.

3. How the Altars Sugar Skulls Cempasúchitl
dead are
remembere
d and
honored
List at least
3 ways the
dead are
remembere
d and
honored
during this
time.
List at least The date of the holiday is Another method is one that A last method is to use
3 methods important because it shows utilizes the Cempasúchitl objects of which the
used to the forceful influence of flower that lights the path deceased soul valued as
attract the Catholicism on this in the spirit world and offerings on an altar to
dead and holiday by making it on attracts unrested souls. attract the soul
why they All Saints’ Day.
are used.
Include One method is using
why the religious chants devoted
date of the from Catholicism .
holiday is
important.