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20th Century Fox animated film book of life is a mystical and photos with the holiday of the Day of the Dead Mexican history connected. Children love the bright colors and whimsical images, the things that you are not normally associated with skulls and death. But grown in Mexico, the Day of the Dead, known the lives of those who have left us. The festival in the beautiful bright colors, sugar skulls, skeletons and images that make up the living entity is marked as tools for cooking, dancing or playing.

The book of life film is a great way to introduce children to this unique cultural customs and get your creativity:

Step 1: Explain to the children that artistic creation in the image of a skull is a way in which people focus on the celebration of life of those who have passed, and the recognition of their memories. Create challenge children their own dynamics skull art drawing or tracing to decorate a skull and, or by printing one day of the dead coloring pages and adding bright colors with intricate designs. Children can get ideas for the character design to get Fantasy landscapes and environments in the film.

The above image is hand drawn illustration of skull day my daughter died. After the design and decoration of the skull, in the amount of the image on decorative paper.

Step 2: enter a name for your creation challenge and write a story about your new character children. You can use them in the film discuss the history, and how. Traditions and concepts of real life into a fairy fantasy fiction that entertains and sends a positive message to integrate

If your children learn to write stories, make sure they tell the story in the film. Then you can mark the beginning, middle and end of the story in the film and to encourage them to integrate all these elements into your own story.

Step 3: For ultra-ambitious, or for children who are actually in the movie and the idea of the film, can help them create their own film based on the character. An easy way to do this would be to document a video slide by creating a series of images and tell the story as you shoot images in succession. But you can also use the more difficult and painstaking process, and help them to do something like a flip book or stop-motion animation.