![]() ✅ SUITS ANY SPACE: Your Business, Office, Studio, Classroom or School.ġ Strip of shredded paper strip (Tira de Papel Picado) with 10 flags with different designs and colors (157" inches long. ✅ IMPRESS YOUR FAMILY, FRIENDS, STUDENTS OR CLIENTS with this authentic “Dia de los Muertos” Decor-Kit. ![]() ✅ HONOR YOUR LOVED □ ONES DECEASED : with this "Dia de los Muertos" Altar/Ofrenda. ✅ BRING AUTHENTIC ANCIENT TRADITIONS □TO YOUR HOME : All the pieces come from small towns in Mexico and are hand made by the people who inherited the Dia de los Muertos traditions. ✅ COMES WITH AMAE PREMIUM □ COPAL INCENSE: It is believed that Copal moves bad spirits away. ✅ CREATE A BEAUTIFUL AND COLORFUL SPACE □: ✅ ASSEMBLES EASY □: Just open the flags and fan shaped and hang them around your Altar, the Cempasuchil flower comes with the instructions of how to unfold. ✅ CONTAINS ALL THE ELEMENTS□ □□ □FOR YOUR DAY OF THE DEAD ALTAR : Shredded paper (Air),Copal Incense (Earth), Candles (Fire) & Straw Basket (wood), just add a Glass with water. ✅ COMES WITH AN EASY □ GUIDE : The altar elements needed & how to set your Ofrenda according to ancient Mexican traditions. This post originally appeared on the ThinkTank12 blog and has been revised in 20.Decor-Kit to Set your Dia de los muertos Altar/Ofrenda: Shreded paper flags, cempasuchil flowers, Catrina figure etc, comes with an easy guide to build your own altar. Will you celebrate anyone? What are your family’s traditions around Day of the Dead and Halloween? But I will also honor the memory of my mother in the coming days. So I will happily take my 8-year-old daughter through our neighborhood to ask for candy on Halloween. But I have a daughter who delights in dressing up, attending the town parade and indulging in candy. Part of it is that I’ve grown more disturbed by the evolution-or perhaps devolution-of Halloween decorations into what are sometimes quite offensive portrayals of horror. I must say that I much prefer Day of the Dead celebrations to Halloween in my older age. They may wear suits or fancy dresses and carry noisemakers.Ĭostumes vary and can be trendy, but traditional Halloween costumes include:įavorite foods of the late family members Participants dress up as skeletons and paint their faces to look like colorful skulls. Monarch butterflies ( believed to house spirits of those who have died) The cempasúchil ( a type of marigold flower that is grown in Mexico) The ofrenda ( the altar that contains photographs and other objects of departed loved ones) It began as a festival to ward off ghosts and has evolved into a night of costumes, parties, and trick-or-treating. To celebrate, honor, and remember deceased loved ones. Originated with the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain Originated in Mexico and celebrated throughout Latin America Here’s a quick look at some of the differences between the two days: These looks are based partly on the decorated sugar skulls that are left on altars as offerings to the spirits. The skeletal appearance highlighted with flowers, bright colors and artwork is a striking image that has now become an icon of the Day of the Dead. Perhaps the most popular part of the holiday is people turning themselves into skeletons using elaborate makeup and masks. Families tend graves and leave offerings, plant flowers and trees, wear the clothes of their deceased relatives, and build altars in their homes to honor their loved ones. ![]() Rather than displaying grim or gory decorations, Day of the Dead celebrations involve paying respects to loved ones. In the Aztec culture the celebration of the dead was in August and went on for a month. The practice of celebrating the dead goes back thousands of years in Latin American cultures. It’s a celebration of family and a show of respect for those who have passed away. ![]() ![]() It’s a holiday for people to honor their ancestors and loved ones who have passed away and invite those spirits back into their homes to be part of the family once more. The Day of the Dead holiday (in Spanish referred to as Dia de los Muertos), originated in Mexico and celebrates the dead, rather than being afraid of the dead. Both celebrations involve costumes, skeletons, and treats as well as graveyards and death imagery. The Day of the Dead celebrations may coincide with Halloween and seem similar. ![]()
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