Kiley Rosenlieb

Día de Los Muertos vs Halloween

DÍA DE LOS MUERTOS

• -Mexico -November 1st and 2nd -Remember and celebrate friends and family who are dead. -Skulls -Pan de muertos, candied pumpkins, any favorite food of the celebrated. -Welcome the spirits.

Pan de muertos candied pumpkibs
Tamales
Mole

HALLOWEEN

• -Ireland -October 31st -A chance to become someone else and scare people for fun. - pumpkins and ghost -Pumpkin pie, cookies shaped like pumpkins,ghost or skull candies, and candy corn. -Scare away evil spirits

Pumpkin pie
cookies shaped like pumpkins or ghost
skull candies
candy corn

BOTH

• - Use food as a part of celebration. -Costumes -Focus on death -Decorating

Día De Los Muertos
Vs
Memorial Day

DÍA DE LOS MUERTOS

• -Mexico -November 1st & 2nd -Pan de muerto, Mole, Tamales, Atole, and candied pumpkin

MEMORIAL DAY

• -United States -Last Monday in May -Burgers, Hot dogs, pizza, corn on the cob

BOTH

• -Celebrate the dead -Visit grave sites and place flowers -Celebrate death in a good way

FUN FACTS

• Marigolds are known as the flower of the dead.
• The origin could be traced up to 3,000 years ago.
• Mexico City alone has more than 1.5 million abandoned tomb stones.