Mattel released it’s 2025 Day of the Dead Barbie! Since 2019 Mattel has released a new Day of the Dead Barbie every year. Each Day of the Dead Barbie is unique in appearance and celebrates the traditions, symbols, and even rituals of Dia De Muertos. Every Day of the Dead Barbie has it’s own traditional dress that has been beautifully embroidered and make up and this one is no different!
2025 Day Of The Dead Barbie
If you or someone you know loves collecting Barbies then you will be excited to see that the 2024 Day of the Dead Barbie is here, and she is stunning! You can order the Barbie this month and have it sent to help complete your collection!
Day Of The Dead Barbie Details
This Barbie, like the others, is a collectible doll. She is wearing a beautiful, luminous, white ruffled gown. The gown has colorful details and is embroidered with marigolds. Her hair is down this year and is highlighted by Dia de Muertos iconic marigolds and gold. She is also wearing calavera face paint and is wearing deep gold accessories.
Day Of The Dead Barbie Accessories
This year she is sporting a gold headband or tiara with beautiful marigolds on both sides. Her calavera face painting is colorful and and vibrant with classic designs.
She has on various necklaces including a neck cuff and longer necklaces beneath it. They’re etched too look like beads and the heart on the lowest hanging necklace appears to have a sugar skull engraved into it. As does her earrings. And the embroidery on her dress is gorgeous!
This year she is also wearing long sleeves and her ruffles are lined with lovely gold embroidery or faux lace.
And of course we can’t forget her strappy golden high heels which pulls the whole outfit and accessories together!
Day Of The Dead Ken Doll
As you can see, Mattel even brought out a Day of the Dead Ken doll to accompany Barbie. He is sporting a black satin suit with gold accents embroidery. He dawns a brown and gold belt and a wide-brimmed sombrero and his calavera face paint really pulls the look together. Ken is sold separately, but both dolls compliment each other and look ready for Dia de Muertos festivities.
Where Can You Find The 2025 Day Of The Dead Barbie?
You can find the 2025 Day of the Dead Barbie doll and Ken doll on Amazon, at participating Target and Walmart locations as well as Mattelcreations.com.
What Is Day Of The Dead?
The Day of the Dead is a Mexican holiday where friends and family honor their loved ones that have past. The holiday starts on October 31 and ends on November 2.
Families and friends will gather together, pray, and enjoy food. They will visit cemeteries and decorate the graves of their late loved ones with alters called ofrendas. You can see good depictions of this in the movie Coco or The Book of Life.
More Day Of The Dead Barbies
Mattel first released the Day of the Dead Barbie in 2019. And like all the later Barbies, it is gorgeous. She wore a floor length black dress that was embroidered and had a marigold and butterfly headband with face paint.
Each year the Day of the Dead Barbie was released, but a little different and a little more intricate than the last. The 2020 Barbie wore a beautiful lace dress with embroidery, gold jewelry, with colorful flowers in her hair.
In 2021, Barbie wore a traditional dress that was embroidered with flowers and sugar skulls. She wore a crown of marigolds with skulls alongside a twisted hairband.
The 2022 Day of the Dead Barbie is so colorful. She had a ruffled dress with royal purple and printed skeletons and flowers and she dawned a cempasuchil flower and rose and headband as well as a calavera face painting as well.
2023 Barbie wore a vibrant pink dress embroidered with flowers and skulls. She wore a headband of monarch butterflies and had lovely gold jewelry and a metallic calavera face painting done in rose gold.
The 2024 Barbie had a gorgeous black gown embroidered with colorful sugar skulls and designs. Her headband represented marigolds and stood out against her pink sugar skull jewelry and colorful calavera face painting.
Did you miss out on previous Day of the Dead Barbies? Don’t worry we’ve got you covered!
- 2019 Day of the Dead Barbie
- 2020 Day of the Dead Barbie
- 2021 Day of the Dead Barbie
- 2022 Day of the Dead Barbie
- 2023 Day of the Dead Barbie
- 2023 Day of the Dead Barbie- Limited Edition
- 2024 Day of the Dead Barbie
More Day of The Dead Fun From Kids Activities Blog
And if you are looking for even more Day of the Dead activities, look no further. Celebrate Dia de los Muertos by making masks with paper plates, make colorful papel picado, and even learn how to make the prettiest marigold with tissue paper…
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- Kids will love coloring these sugar skull coloring pages or our collection of Day of the Dead coloring pages.
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- Make this Day of the Dead sugar skull printable puzzle
- Dia De Muertos hidden pictures worksheet you can download, print, find & color!
- How to make papel picado for Day of the Dead traditions.
- Use this template to make a sugar skull pumpkin carving.
- Create your own Day of the Dead flowers.
- Make a sugar skull planter.
- Color along with this Day of the Dead sugar skull pictures tutorial.
- You can make your own Day of the Dead mask with this printable template.
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What do you think of this Day of the Dead Barbie? Isn’t she beautiful?
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