Day of the Dead / Halloween Skull Craft

Easy and more decorative ideas to celebrate Halloween and 'Day of the Dead' (2nd November)

Materials

-Pencil, ruler, rubber, tape, stick glue, black pen, colours

-White paper plate

-Stick (kebab stick, lollystick..or just a pencil) + tape/ribbon if you want to hang it up

-Decoration (stickers, coloured paper, post it notes, etc)

See visual instructions below-

-Draw horizontal line across the plate (in pencil to remove later)

-Draw 2 vertical lines down sides of plate

-Mark the lower part of vertical line in the middle

-From these points, draw a curved line to create the head and chin shapes

-Turn plate upside-down and draw a heart shape above middle line

-Draw 2 big circles under line (colour black for basic skull design)

-Cut out the head shape

-Add mouth and teeth

-Tape stick to the back of plate

 (for a mask, adults can pierce 2 holes in centre of eyes with a rubber and sharp pencil)

For the more decorative 'Day of the Dead' design-

-Draw/colour design in and around eyes

-Add 3 flowers at top of the head -draw/colour or stick on coloured paper

-Draw on hearts and swirls around mouth and chin

-Add lots of decoration and make it original!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!