Las Posadas Classroom Activities

Las Posadas classroom activities! Spanish teachers, use these lesson plans and hand’s on materials to teach about Las Posadas through music, art and history. Re-enact Las Posadas with these easy to implement templates.

IN THIS LAS POSADAS CULTURAL UNIT YOU WILL GET … Diverse activities that shed light into this cultural tradition and set your students up to re-enact the Posada celebration in class. We have included:

• • A CI Article: Las Posadas Navideñas written primarily in the present and past tenses. It is great for advanced beginning levels and beyond. This article includes vocabulary exercises and comprehension questions as well.
  • A step-by-step template and all materials to re-enact a Posada celebration in your classroom
  • Vocabulary activities that builds upon rich holiday vocabulary.
  • Several Posada recipes that your students can use as a homework project.
  • Step-by-Step Instructions to make your own posada piñata 
  • Canto Para Pedir Posada song lyrics in Spanish and English

This lesson plan is easily implementable and templated to create a Las Posadas cultural experience in your classroom. Follow this template and you will create a student-directed cultural celebration in your classroom. For example, your students will:

• Make their own piñatas (recipe, instructions and link to comprehensible input video included)
• Make their own traditional posada foods and bring them to class to share (recipe and instructions included for homework)
• Lead the class in the traditional Canto de Pedir Posada song  

• • Las Posadas vocabulary and comprehension activities
  • Fun, creative, art and music based activities in the target language
  • Resources to videos, songs, and more activities all about Las Posadas so that you can add as much additional content or homework activities as you wish.