Around Eastertime, the Spanish III Honors and Spanish IV AP classes of the Clearfield High School made “Cascarones.”
The CHS Spanish Department’s rendition of Cascarones started with hollowed out eggs brought in from home. In class students decorated the shells of their Cascarones with crayons, instead of paint and then filled the empty shells with recycled hole-punchings as opposed to the traditional confetti or glitter.
After the eggs were filled and colored, the students broke them over top of each other’s heads to bring good luck. This tradition comes from Mexico and is said to have originated from Asia years before European colonization of the Americas.
Shown here, students in the Spanish IV AP class relished being able to break Cascarones over their teacher’s head, Ms. Emily Zimdahl, a right to which Spanish students are not entitled until reaching the level Spanish IV AP class.