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I’ve updated my Dia de los Muertos – Day of the Dead for this year.

The lens was created as an introduction to the holiday, Dia de los Muertos or Day of the Dead, one often confused with Halloween. Dia de los Muertos is often compared to Halloween in part because they both have skeletons and skulls as decorations. These two fall festival celebrations are very different, with very different origins.

This festival to celebrate the unity of life and death, is considered by many to be the most important holiday of the year in Mexico and other Latin American countries.  It is the time once a year, when the spirits of loved ones who have died, return to earth to celebrate this holiday with friends and family.

Keeping Memories Alive

Many people not raised with the tradition of the Day of the Dead find solace in this lighter, cheerful, family-oriented approach to the subject of death. Dia de los Muertos is a unique way of keeping the memories alive of those who have died. It might even be a helpful tradition for someone to adopt and begin celebrating for those who have lost loved ones.

I finished up two more SquidBoo lenses for the How Giant Squids Do Halloween Challenge. The last minute additions:

1. Spooky Halloween Meal about our family tradition of eating ’scary’ Halloween Foods. It includes a lot of fun recipes that we’ve fixed with the girls for the past 5 years.

2. Healthy Halloween Treats looking at Halloween from the perspective of a parent who teaches nutrition, this lens offers tips to enjoy Halloween, stay healthy and still survive the start of Candy Season.

The key is to encourage children to eat Halloween treats that fall in the healthier end of the spectrum, while showing them how to savor their sweets in moderation.

Make sure you take a look at all of the fun lenses that have been submitted to the How Giant Squids Do Halloween Challenge.

Two new lenses created for Halloween this year as part of the How Giant Squids Do Halloween Challenge. Two more still to go before tomorrow’s deadline. The new additions:

1. Green Your Halloween – Tips on helping make your Halloween a bit Greener, more eco-friendly and healthier choices.
2. Easy Halloween Costumes – Suggestions for making Easy Halloween Costumes, helpful for anyone including the creativity challenged.

SquidBoo

The SquidBoo format was rolled out last year to help people visiting Squidoo (and elsewhere) searching for Halloween stuff and information. I’d created several lenses last year with the SquidBoo template for Halloween focusing on some scary and some informative stuff.

Last year’s SquidBoo lenses included:

• 13 Ways to Cloak Your True Identity for Halloween

• Dia de los Muertos – Day of the Dead

• The Original Phantom of the Opera
  

• Dem Dancing Skeleton Bones

• Take a Trip Underground to Visit The Catacombs….and the Dead

Tomorrow, Friday is the deadline for Giant Squids to enter the How Giant Squids Do Halloween Challenge. You still have time to make your own SquidBoo lens.