Welcome to the first day of Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) Week! Stop by each day for a new and exciting project to celebrate one of my favorite holidays. First up, how to make a super easy and kid-friendly Dia de los Muertos Calavera Mask to accompany any basic skeleton costume.
Dia de los Muertos Calavera Mask
Supplies:
- Paper Mache Skull Mask
- White Paint
- Foam Shapes Variety Pack
- Black Paint Pen
Instructions:
1. Paint a layer of white paint on the paper mache mask. Repeat if necessary and allow to dry completely.
2. Begin applying foam pieces to mask. Feel free to cut up some of the flowers into hearts and leaf shapes. Depending on the age of your children, they can totally help out with this part!
3. Keep adding foam stickers until you’re happy with the design or until your kid has covered every single bare space of the mask! Outline the teeth, eyes, and nose with a black paint pen to accentuate the holes.
To keep in place, you can either glue a popsicle stick to the back and have the child hold it or punch two holes into the side and add some elastic to go around their head. All you need now is a super cute and comfy skeleton costume…
Now, all you need is a basic skeleton costume and your Dia de los Muertos Calavera Masks to make the costume complete!
Stop by tomorrow for another quick and easy way to celebrate Dia de los Muertos! I’ll give you a hint…it’ll make you shriek with joy. Or should I say “shrink?” 😀
You are so creative and talented – those masks are SO cool!
These are so fun, I love them! Pinning!
All I can say is Wow!
I love your mask! What a great way to add a personal touch to a store bought costume!
I absolutely LOVE THIS! These masks are muy cool and I love how you and your son cut up the flowers to add graphic detail to the mask. Pinning!
Amazing and so colorful!
Where did you get your masks at?
I found mine at Michaels
I love how positive and happy these are rather than your typical day of the dead stuff. These are beautiful! http://talenttoplay.blogspot.com
This is super cute, I love how they turned out!!
I looked and looked all fall to find these masks–I’ve been buying them from Michael’s for three years. They did not order them this past year for some unknown reason. I love teaching my 4th graders how to paint them for Dia de los Muertos. The only ones I found were exorbitantly priced on Ebay. Do you know where I can buy them (need 30)? I love this idea!