Day of the Dead Activity Pack

This pack contains a large selection of activities about Day of the Dead, Halloween, Mexico, and comparing festivals. Two PowerPoint presentations introduce the two festivals. A third PP explains Venn diagrams and works through some comparative language before students use both to compare and contrast DOTD and Halloween. A range of worksheets, reading comprehension tasks, cards, games, and quizzes are included, catering for a wide spectrum of abilities, allowing a lot of differentiation and student choice. A final PowerPoint is a really fun, interactive quiz for checking students’ knowledge of the topics.

Full Contents:

3 PowerPoints presentations:
• Introduction to Day of the Dead
• Introduction to Halloween
• Comparing Festivals

1 interactive PowerPoint quiz:
• 70+ questions about DOTD / Halloween / Mexico
• ‘bomb quiz’ style - after answering a question, students choose a randomly selected prize (e.g. +1 point, -1 point, lose all points).
• The PowePoint manages the team names, questions and answers, prize selection and scoring - just load the PP and play!

6 DOTD worksheets
• Design and color a skull + vocabulary
• Design and color a skeleton + vocabulary
• Unscramble parts of the skull + label the skulls + gap fill
• Unscramble body parts + label the skeleton + colouring
• Answer questions about DOTD
• Compare / contrast DOTD and Halloween + Venn diagram template

2 DOTD articles + reading comprehension worksheets
• Easier and more difficult options.

3 quizzes - about DOTD, Halloween, and Mexico. Each quiz features
• A student question sheet
• A set of answer cards that can be placed around the classroom
• A set of double-sided question and answer cards.

1 DOTD word search

2 DOTD crosswords

5 simple coloring sheets
• patterned skulls & blank skulls of different sizes

Full Answer Key & Teacher Guide, including suggested plan of activities.

Both U.K. and U.S. English versions of all printables are included.

This download is a zip file including PowerPoint Presentations and PDFs. You will need zip extraction software, PowerPoint, a PDF reader, and a printer to use it.

To make full use of the interactive PowerPoint quiz, you will need to enable VBA and Active-X within PowerPoint. A guide on how to do this is included.