Create Papel Picado in Google Slides Wrap-Up

In this lesson you created your own version of the traditional folk art called papel picado in Google Slides.

You also learned about how papel picado is used to celebrate Día de los Muertos in Mexico and what some of the icons are symbolic of.

As you completed this lesson you… Made a copy of the starter project and renamed it.

Added a papel design to a new slide and arranged it to the page Chose a person to represent with your design and added icons to symbolize that person.

Created patterns with icons, Searched for your own icons and formatted them on your papel and added speaker notes to explain your theme and the symbolism of your icons.

As a result of this project you learned about the celebration of life called Día de los Muertos.

If you don’t already celebrate Día de los Muertos, you might already know of a similar tradition in your own culture.

You can learn more about Día de los Muertos by searching online.

You might find inspiration from Mexican culture to celebrate the important people in your life.

You can apply what you learned in this lesson to create other types of creative presentations for school projects.

Many professionals use presentations like this to share ideas at work or to teach a new topic to a group of people.

With the skills you learned from this lesson, you can recreate various versions of folk art and learn about many other cultures.