Family and Parenting: Dia De Los Muertos History, Traditions, Recipes, Crafts & More

By: Sahana Ajeethan

Dia de los Muertos is known as Day of the Dead – a Mexican holiday where all the family members gather together to celebrate and remember their loved ones who passed away. It is a two-day festival where the first day November 1 is celebrated to honor dead children and infants whereas the second day November 2 is celebrated to honor dead adults.

collage of day of the dead traditions crafts recipes — Try these day of the dead crafts, recipes to honor your deceased loved ones of your family.

Day of the dead holiday traditions includes cleaning and decorating the graves of the loved ones with marigold flowers and offer their favorite foods to the departed souls.

All Saints’ Day coincides with day 1 of the Day of the Dead and the November 2 is celebrated as All Souls’ Day.

Day of the Dead Traditions

Learn about the history of Day of the Dead festivals on National Geographic.

Get to know Day of the Dead origins and history from Trip Savvy

Celebrate the life of dead with these traditions at DayoftheDead.

Learn how to make an ofrenda step by step at Happy thought.

Making your altar for Day of the Dead includes a lot of steps, this post from Hallmark may help!

family picture of three skeletons dressed in day of the dead traditions sitting on a bench inside of a closet — Do you love this colorful picture of day of the dead skeletons?

Dia de los muertos Recipes

Any celebration is not complete without food. Learn about what special recipes are made as part of this vibrant tradition from Growing Up Bilingual.

Here are more delicious Day of the Dead party food and recipes from Delish.

Hungry Happenings has got you covered for themed treats and food for Dia de los Muertos.

Learn how to make sugar skulls from the scratch at Art Is Fun .

Make your own cake for your Day of the Dead party using the recipe from Pint Sized Baker.

sugar skull , bread displayed on a white background with papel picado and paper flowers displayed for day of the dead mexico — Aren’t these day of the dead recipes yummy?

Day of the Dead Art & Crafts

Decorate your altars with DIY marigold flowers from Kids Activities Blog.

Make this beautiful headpiece to wear on the Day of the Dead from Tikkido.

Hang this fantastic wreath to decorate your doors and to welcome the holy spirits from Soiree Event Design.

This sugar skull balloon backdrop is so cute from Oh Happy Day.

Use this sugar skull banner to decorate the altars during your Day of the Dead celebration from Hello Little Home.

various crafts collage for day of the dead celebration — Which one is your favourite craft for the day of the dead?

Dia De Los Muertos Celebration & Decor

Make these cute sugar skull planters using hollow sugar skulls from Houseful of Handmade.

Check out these beautiful crafts from skull balloons to paper decorations from Hodge Podge Craft.

These sugar skull coloring pages for kids are surely one of a kind! Via Kids Activities Blog

Don’t miss this ultimate list of Day of the Dead crafts from Crafty Chica.

There are lots of kids activities ideas for Dia de los Muertos from the Crafty Crow.

altars diaplyed with day of the dead mexico flowers and decoration — Traditional mexican Day of the dead altar with sugar skulls and candles for the festival

Other crafts ideas you kids might like:

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