He puts them under a Christmas tree. Families often gather for a special dinner on the 24th and eat turkey and a special ice cream cake in the shape of a tree trunk. Mexicans celebrate this day by organizing festivals with music and fireworks during which they drink and dance, and kids dress up and play fighting with swords to imitate former Mexican soldiers at the time of the independence in 1910. It is like Halloween in the United States and it is a day to remember the deads.
Some schools organize special rituals and build small altars in class.
Some children dress like up skeletons and march from an altar to a cemetery where thay dance in circle. The Chinese family gathers and has a feast, and people also organize parades in the streets. Christmas is not as important as here. People send Christmas cards and sometimes give presents to each other. Children receive red envelopes with a little money enclosed.