Get the party starting

P. went to school yesterday dressed in a English devil costume . It took me some time to understand what he meant when he told me that he wanted to go to the school carnival party dressed as an English devil. He has to show me one in a TV program that he watches, Raven, where there's some characters that are the demons and they're dressed as inquisition monks, something like the picture here.
After I understood what he meant, it was easy to find a brown Monk habit with a large enough hood to hide his face. There were selling fancy dresses for children and adults all over town.

Is the tradition here that in Friday before Carnival weekend, all children go to school in fancy dress after lunch (most children go home to eat lunch). P. stays and eat at school, so he had to take his fancy dress with him. So, when everybody is back at school they parade, starting with the youngest and everybody clap, them they have a fiesta, with dancing music. The oldest kids, 11 years-old, have to take a dummy with them. No idea why.

Of course, during the whole week they didn't talk of anything else and P. was very exited because it was his first carnival ever and he reported that it was great fun, even though nobody guesses what he was supposed to be, his schoolmates kept asking him if he was Death himself.

It was really nice to see all the kids going home after school in fancy dresses all over the place, very colourful and cute.