At BCMHS Noche de los Muertos is planned and ran by students in AP Spanish. Along, with planning students are also working on making their own calavera., for the Copa de Calavera contest.
A calavera is a representation of a human skull. They have a much richer meaning in Mexican culture. Calaveras remind people to celebrate their lives and mortality, to look at the past and future, all the while being present. They are typically made of sugar and placed on an ofrenda (altar) to celebrate Day of the Dead.
While students decorated their calaveras at home they spent class time planning Noche de Los Muertos. The event lasted only two hours but took two months of planning, a week of cleaning and setting-up and a day of tear down. They had last
A calavera is a representation of a human skull. They have a much richer meaning in Mexican culture. Calaveras remind people to celebrate their lives and mortality, to look at the past and future, all the while being present. They are typically made of sugar and placed on an ofrenda (altar) to celebrate Day of the Dead.
While students decorated their calaveras at home they spent class time planning Noche de Los Muertos. The event lasted only two hours but took two months of planning, a week of cleaning and setting-up and a day of tear down. They had last