How to Celebrate Diás de los Muertos
- 1). Throw a party to celebrate the lives of your departed relatives or friends, and invite the people who knew and loved them best.
- 2). Keep in mind that the festivities in Mexico last for several days, and when the Aztec goddess Mictecacihuatl ran the show, it went on for a month. But you can easily condense your party into one tradition-bending evening.
- 3). Serve food and drinks that your absent guest or guests of honor liked; play their favorite music; deck the party scene with their favorite flowers and photographs of their favorite places; read aloud from their favorite books.
- 4). Show videos or old home movies, pass around snapshots, and tell stories about the absent guest or guests of honor.
- 5). Add a Mexican touch by serving traditional Di¨¢s de los Muertos treats such as marzipan in the shapes of skulls, skeletons and crosses; and a bread called pan de los muertos. You can find these and other seasonal goodies in Hispanic markets, or make your own from recipes in a Mexican cookbook.
- 6). Hang a pi?ata filled with paper butterflies.
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