These Day of the Dead activities and traditions will help you celebrate this holiday and remember loved ones.
A
Altar Decorating
Aztec Dance Performances
B
Baking Pan de Muerto
Burning Copal Incense
C
Candle Lighting
Candlelight Vigils
Catrina Makeup
Cemetery Visits
Collecting Marigold Petals
Community Processions
Cooking Traditional Recipes
Costume Contests
Crafting Calavera Masks
Crafting Papel Picado
Creating Family Tree Charts
Creating Remembrance Collages
Creating Sugar Skulls
Cultural Workshops
D
Dance Performances
Decorating Graves
Decorating with Marigold Petals
Día de los Muertos Parades
E
Educational Workshops on Day of the Dead
F
Face Painting
Family Gatherings
Family Reunions
Feasting on Ofrendas
Floral Arranging
Food Preparations
G
Gathering Cempasúchil Flowers
Grave Clean-Up
Graveyard Visits
H
Historical Lectures
Honoring Ancestors
I
Interactive Storytelling
J
Joining Processions
Journey to Ancestral Homes
K
Keeping Vigil
L
Lantern-lit Walks
Lighting Incense
Listening to Mariachi Music
Live Music Concerts
M
Making Memory Boxes
Making Ofrendas
Making Remembrance Videos
Making Tissue Paper Flowers
Memory Sharing
N
Nighttime Celebrations
Nighttime Vigils
O
Offering Favorite Foods and Drinks
Offering Preparation
P
Papel Picado Crafting
Playing Traditional Music
Poetry Reading
Potlucks
Preparing Favorite Dishes
Procession Participation
R
Recipe Exchanges
Remembering Loved Ones
Reminiscing
S
Sculpting Clay Figurines
Sharing Anecdotes
Sharing Stories
Skeleton Puppetry
Skull Face Painting
Song Singing
Spiritual Reflection
Storytelling
Sugar Art Creation
T
Telling Ancestral Tales
Traditional Dancing
U
Unveiling of Altars
V
Vigil Keeping
Visiting Family
Visiting Friends
Visiting Gravesites
W
Watching Día de los Muertos Films
Workshops on Día de los Muertos History
Writing Letters to the Deceased
X
Xocolatl (Traditional Hot Chocolate) Making
Z
Zempasúchil Flower Arranging