17 Hispanic Heritage Month Spanish Project Ideas

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With Hispanic Heritage Month coming up, I thought it might be fun to share different ways you can do projects with your classes to celebrate! Whether you want to highlight the Spanish-speaking countries, famous Hispanics, or focus on culture, there are options in this post to inspire you. Check out this round up of Hispanic Heritage Month Spanish project ideas!

Tips for a Successful Project

Before we get into the Hispanic Heritage Month Spanish project ideas, I wanted to share a few tips for doing a research project successfully with your students:

Have clear expectations
Allow choice
Check in with students along the way
Bring in a media specialist or expert to help your students research
Show off their stuff

If you’d like to see more on these tips, check out my blog post with a more detailed explanation here!

Interactive Hispanic Heritage Month Spanish Project Ideas Your Students Will Love

Let’s talk about projects that go beyond posters and PowerPoints. If you’re looking to boost engagement this year, try getting your students involved with collaborative and hands-on activities that make Hispanic Heritage Month meaningful and memorable.

One fun and flexible idea is a classroom museum walk. Assign each student a different topic related to Hispanic heritage, a historical figure, traditional dish, popular artist, or a cultural symbol. They create a short write-up or mini-presentation, then decorate their “exhibit” area with images, artifacts, or even music. On museum day, give each student a chance to visit the exhibits, ask questions, and leave sticky-note compliments or questions. This is a perfect way to build curiosity and confidence in your classroom.

Another hit? Host a “Living Timeline” of Hispanic heritage. Students choose an important moment or milestone from a Spanish-speaking country and present it in chronological order. They can dress up, create props, or even act out a short skit. Add some student-made country flags and music, and you’ve got a full-on celebration of culture.

These Hispanic Heritage Month Spanish project ideas are great for middle or high school classes, and the best part is how easy it is to adapt them to your group’s level or schedule.

Hispanic Heritage Month Spanish Project Ideas

Biography Spanish Project Ideas

This Wax Museum Project will help your students create a biography research report on a famous person of Hispanic Heritage. The finished project is a Wax Museum event, where students dress up as the person they have learned about and hold a “pose”, like a Wax Museum, until someone walks up to them and presses the “button” near them. Then students give a short speech about that person’s life.

Click here for the step-by-step blog post of how to do this project with your students!

Giselle de ABCen123 has a biography project with a book and lap book version for you!

This research poster project includes 40 templates with names of famous Hispanics filled in, as well as a blank template for students to choose and add their own person to research! It comes in Spanish and English.

Paulina from Monster’s Chest has a research project on 21 important women in current history, Hispanic or of Hispanic descent.

Ariana from the Spanglish Mom has this set of posters and games completely in Spanish.

If you are working with your upper levels, you might like this authors biography research project. There are 40 authors from the Spanish-speaking world included!

Christine from All About Art has a set of posters in English for researching Hispanic artists. This is a great fit if you’re doing an art unit!

If you would prefer a biography project for artists in Spanish, check out this resource here!

The Sassy Maestra has this template for a Biography Ball project, with readings included. How fun!

Cultural Spanish Project Ideas

Debbie Wood has a reading and a beautiful, simple art project for students on Guatemala worry dolls.

Spanish-Speaking Country Projects

Color Spanish speaking countries flags, maps, and explore food and culture with these report posters! There are 21 templates with names of Spanish-speaking countries filled in. You can print them off and let students choose, assign people to research, or post the sheets as a fast finisher option to create a bulletin board or display!

Theresa from The Pura Vida Teacher has a Hispanic Heritage Tissue Box Project! Students choose a Spanish-speaking country to research and create an eye-catching collage on a tissue box or poster with beautiful images of all the information they learned.

Granabana has a “country a day” resource where students complete info on Hispanic Heritage Month, then complete information about each country!

Do your students love taking virtual field trips? Help them make their own and explore the Spanish-speaking countries with this tech-based project! Students add info on their own interactive maps for each country.

Or, you might like this create your own virtual trip project where students each focus on a different country!

Spanish Project Ideas for Heritage Classes

Profe Nygaard has a project that is designed for heritage Spanish speakers! The resource is called Los Dos Lados de mi Vida and is a free download on her page here.

La Misi de Español has this cool collaborative bulletin board for students! This could really be for any of your classes as it’s in English and Spanish. Students each decorate their own puzzle piece, then you hang them up to make the classroom display!

Low Prep Hispanic Heritage Projects for Busy Teachers

Running short on time? No worries. Here are a few Hispanic Heritage Month Spanish project ideas that are fun and flexible without a ton of prep.

Use digital slideshows to research traditional clothing or music styles across Latin America
Try a guess who game where students research and write clues about a famous Hispanic figure
Have students create a recipe card collection of traditional dishes in both Spanish and English

No matter which option you choose, the goal is the same, connect students with the richness of Hispanic culture in a way that feels authentic, exciting, and empowering.