Free Spanish Worksheets for Day of the Dead
Inside: Download free printables and worksheet for learning about Day of the Dead in Spanish
My students and kids love learning about Día de Muertos! They are fascinated by the visuals and traditions and always ask to cover it in the fall.
Over the years I’ve created different printable worksheets togo along with Day of the Dead activites, and this post gathers them all together in one spot.
Students love seeing pictures and videos for Día de Muertos, so I recommend using these along with lessons that show lots of visuals and/or hands-on activities.
Get more ideas for full Day of the Dead lessons in this post!
Day of the Dead Worksheets
Printable Day of the Dead Worksheets in this Post:
– Vocabulary Pages
– Crossword Puzzle and Word Search
– Altar/Ofrenda Worksheet
– Glyphs
– Sugar Skulls, Color-by-Number, and Coloring Pages
Not a printable but super useful!
– Slides in Spanish for Beginners
Day of the Dead Vocabulary Pages
Here’s a basic, editable vocabulary list of Day of the Dead vocabulary in Spanish, that you can tailor exactly to the level of your students and hand out to them for reference.
It also includes vocabulary in Spanish you can post with image (in illustrations or photos!).
Click here to make your own copy.
Day of the Dead Crossword Puzzle and Word Search
I made some puzzles to go with the basic vocabulary, using these terms:
flowers
bread
water
photos
candle
sugar skull
November
happy
Mexico
different
fruit
paper
The word search is for simply finding the terms in Spanish, and the crossword puzzle includes some fill-in-the-blanks. Again, this is all editable, so you can adjust the clues to fit your class!
Click here to make your editable, printable copy.
Día de Muertos Altar/Ofrenda Worksheet
These pages are in English (though they’re editable), so students can read about and color an example of an altar for Día de Muertos. It also includes an altar with no objects, if you’d like to have the students draw the objects on their own.
Click here to make your editable, printable copy.
Editable Glyphs
I have five different glyphs (students love glyphs!) that guide students to draw or color. You can change the clues to whatever themes you are studying in class!
Click to make your editable, printable copy.
Día de Muertos Coloring Pages and Sugar Skull Masks
These coloring pages include sugar skulls students can color and cut out to make real masks, or just use as coloring pages. These also have ofrendas, papel picado, and monarch butterfly pages to print and color.
Click to make your editable, printable copy.
Day of the Dead Slides in Spanish for Beginners
These are meant to display and not for printing, but they go along really nicely with the printables here.
Instead of just showing statements to be read out loud, the slides show a series of true/false questions or two choices, so students can guess the answer (it’s fun to use as trivia and keep track of points!).
I had struggled to find slides for absolute beginners, so I made these for my students are just starting out. You can enter your email below and I’ll send you a copy!
