Coco Video Activities + Calavera Mask Craft BUNDLE! K-2 ELA Standards-aligned

This bundle of fun, engaging activities are aligned to K-2 ELA standards to make the most of movie day!

Made especially for kindergarten, first, and second graders, these standards-aligned activities accompany the movie Coco -- a wonderful film to celebrate Hispanic heritage month and explore the rich cultural traditions of Dia de los Muertos / Day of the Dead. Now, BUNDLED with the fun and easy Calavera Mask Craft -- a perfect extension activity, or a quiet task for students to work on during the film!

This resource bundle includes 4 student activities:

• "Day of the Dead" Video Scavenger Hunt page

From the opening scenes beautifully animated on papel picado, Coco is full of important cultural items and symbols that emphasize the Mexican heritage of its characters. This visual checklist -- with vocabulary in English and Spanish -- helps students notice 7 important cultural artifacts shown in the film.

• Graphic Organizer: Characters and Setting

After watching the film, students draw and write about the characters and setting.

• Differentiated Writer's Response page

Students draw and write about their favorite part of the film, in one of five possible formats:

1. Primary lines, with traceable sentence starter
2. Primary lines, blank
3. Wide-ruled, with sentence starter
4. Wide-ruled, with traceable sentence starter
5. Wide-ruled, blank

• Calavera Coloring Page / Mask Craft

An easy printable template gives your students full creative control in designing their calavera, or sugar skull. They can decorate it traditionally -- with bold colors, geometric designs and patterns, and symbols like flowers and hearts -- OR decorate it any way they'd like!

After decorating their skulls, students can cut along the gray outline, cut out the eyes, and attach a popsicle stick for a perfectly-sized, unique calavera mask!

*Limited time? No worries! You also have the option of using this printable as a drawing and coloring page, without the craftivity. :) *

Looking for more Day of the Dead activities?

• Day of the Dead Writing Pages (also available with primary lines!)
• Holidays Around the World: Graphic Organizer for Nonfiction Note-Taking
• Dia de los Muertos Vocabulary Word Searches

Happy Hispanic Heritage month, and feliz Día de los Muertos!