Cee’s On the Hunt for Joy this week has the theme Let a kid decorate. I’m not around kids much anymore, so I went into my archives from my years of teaching. Since my language arts students were all of Mexican & Central American origin, we celebrated the Day of the Dead on the day after Halloween. In the school year 2009-10, the fifth grade classes made posters – they cut out skeletons and then, as a class, they had to decide on a scene and place their skeletons in the scene. When they were finished, we decorated the halls with them.

Below are their final products!

This restaurant scene was created by Ms. Strachn’s third grade class.

This class had their skeletons go to the beach!

This class’s theme was having fun at the cemetery! (4th grade) I only did this activity in the classrooms of my students.

Skydiving skeletons (5th grade)