LearnCreateLove

Printable Crafts and Craft Ideas for Kids

  • Crafts
    • Animal Crafts
    • Bugs & Bird Crafts
    • Character & Mythical Creature Crafts
    • Holiday Crafts
    • Miscellaneous Crafts
    • Nature Crafts
    • Seasonal Crafts
    • Suggest a Printable
  • Activities & Play
    • Playdough & Craft Recipes
    • Games & Puzzles
    • Sensory & Small World
    • Pretend Play Sets
    • Paper Bag Puppets
  • Painting Fun
  • Learning Section
    • Printable Letters & Numbers
    • Printables & Activities
    • Themed Weekly Units
  • Books
    • Book of the Week
    • Chapter Books
  • About Us
  • Site
    • General Information
    • Usage & Copyright Info
    • Troubleshooting
    • Suggest a Printable
You are here: Home / Around The World / Printable Craft: Day of the Dead Skull

Printable Craft: Day of the Dead Skull

May 15, 2013 by Kimberly 1 Comment

crafts-003

Day of the Dead, or Día de Muertos, is a Mexican holiday that is celebrated on November 1st and 2nd. It’s a holiday that honors and brings remembrance to loved ones who have passed. Family members build alters with pictures, candles, and flowers for their loved ones, clean their grave sites, and celebrate the lives they had. They pass out sugar skulls, which is the inspiration for this craft.

I made this printable Day of the Dead skull to open up the conversation about this popular and widely-celebrated Mexican holiday. It was a great addition to our Around the World series! While Lorelai painted, I told her about the holiday and what goes on then. She really enjoyed making the “pretty skull”. =) Read more about Day of the Dead here.

There are two version available – a skull with the outline decorations, and a blank one with only the eyes, nose, and mouth. Print below and happy crafting!

Sugar Skull (blank outline) & Sugar Skull (with designs)

Books:

Printable Instructions | Terms of Use | Facebook Page

Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...

Filed Under: Around The World, Arts & Crafts, Printables Tagged With: around the world, day of the dead craft, holiday craft, mexico, printable craft

Comments

  1. Iliana Velazquez says

    October 28, 2013 at 9:07 pm

    Thank you, I will read the book Day of the Dead with my little students tomorrow, I hope will have the time to color at least 2 or 3 if I make teams. I have some of the sugar skull “calavaritas” and this will give more the idea about the Mexican traditions. Thanks again.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Security Question (solve) * Time limit is exhausted. Please reload CAPTCHA.

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Welcome to LearnCreateLove!
               

Follow Us On Facebook!

Newsletter Subscription

Popular Posts









Round-Ups

  A "round-up" is a collection of crafts of a specific topic. You can find all of our crafts indexed in the "Crafts" section in the header. Here you will find the few round-ups we have done on different topics. Enjoy!

Post Categories


Disclaimer

LearnCreateLove and it's owner are not to be held liable if injury should occur while doing a craft, project, activity, etc. that you found on this website. Any and all crafts, projects, activities, etc. that you do are done at your own discretion; please use caution and do only age-appropriate activities with your children.

Copyright © 2023 · LearnCreateLove All Rights Reserved

Copyright © 2023 · Delightful Child Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in