9.04.2013

Day of the Dead DIY #3: Sugar Skull Piñata


Here's What you'll need:
-scissors
-cardboard
-crepe streamers (several colors for those "extras" like the eyes)
-tape
-a glue stick
-a cup and other cylindrical objects (for tracing and creating shapes)


1. Find a few large pieces of cardboard and draw your skull shape using your cylindrical objects and such to form the shape.
2. Cut out your skull design.
3. Place your cutout onto another piece of cardboard. Trace around that skull shape to create an identical skull shape.
4. Measure around the perimeter of your shape with a string. This will tell you how long the sides need to be.
5. Use your string to measure out the piece(s) of cardboard you will cut for the siding. Cut out pieces for the siding.
6. Begin taping the siding to one of your shapes. Use short strips of tape to do this.
7. Tape the other side on top.
8. Begin cutting pieces of crepe paper to place on your piñata. Cut “fringe” along the bottom of your strips of paper.
9. Use a glue stick to start gluing streamer strips onto your piñata. This works best if you start from the bottom up, gluing one strip on first and placing the next on top and so on.
10. Cut a small opening in your piñata to fill it with fun DoD goodies!

For the eyes, we traced a cup to create two perfect circles and glued black fringe over them. We created the flowers on the eyes from bright pink construction paper and the mouth from black tissue paper, but you can use any bright colors you want and decorate the rest of the sugar skull's face! The flowers on it's head were created from crepe paper using this tutorial.

Join us this Saturday, September 7th, anytime between 12-4 pm at Casa Artelexia to make your very own Sugar Skull Piñata! Cost $20 RSVP 619.544.1011

Thanks Brittany for the awesome photos!!

2 comments:

abbsterocity said...

This is amazing and beautiful. It's a shame it'll eventually get beaten.
I'm going to mag one for my sister's Halloween party this year! Mind if I share this how-to on my blog?

abbsterocity said...

This is amazing and beautiful. It's a shame it'll eventually get beaten.
I'm going to mag one for my sister's Halloween party this year! Mind if I share this how-to on my blog?