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Grab and Go Activities: Dia de Muertos Sugar Skulls

10/28/2020

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Celebrate Dia de Muertos (Day of the Dead) by decorating your very own calavera - a skull made of solid sugar! Follow the instructions below for either a Basic Calavera or a Literary Ofrenda. You can even submit your creation to our contest!

Dia de Muertos is a Mexican holiday celebrated October 31st through November 2nd honoring friends and family who have passed away. But Dia de Muertos is not a day of mourning - it's a day of celebration! By creating ofrendas (family altars) at home and their loved one’s graves, families pay their respects with gifts of calaveras, Aztec marigolds, and the favorite foods and drinks of the departed. It is believed that the souls of loved ones return to enjoy the gifts from their ofrenda and celebrate with their living relatives.

Calaveras, Spanish for “skull” are made from sugar and decorated with beads, feathers, foil, or icing to express the personality of the deceased. But don’t try and eat them - dried sugar skulls are as hard as a rock, and often decorated with inedible materials!
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Materials in Grab & Go Kit
Materials from Home
  • One premade Calavera (sugar skull)
  • Decorations including paint, beads, rhinestones,
    ​and more!
  • Acrylic paint
  • Glue (a low temperature hot glue gun works best, craft glue will work as well but takes longer to dry)
  • Paint brush
  • A place you can get messy
  • If creating a Literary Ofrenda: your chosen author’s books and favorite foods, candles, flowers
Basic Instructions
  1. Decorate your calavera by painting on skull details and designs before gluing on additional decorations. Need some inspiration? Visit the Smithsonian Latino Center’s Day of the Dead online exhibits via Google Arts & Culture here: https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/smithsonian-latino-virtual-museum

  2. Want to enter the competition? Take a photo of your decorated calavera and send it to youthservices@basaltlibrary.org by midnight on November 1st.
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  3. Check the library’s Facebook page on November 4th to see if you won!

Looking for more Dia de Muertos fun? Make a Literary Ofrenda!
Literary Ofrenda Instructions
  1. Pick one of your favorite deceased authors to create an ofrenda for. Do a little research - what did they look like? What types of food and drink did they enjoy? What stood out about their personality?

  2. Paint and decorate your sugar skull to represent your deceased author or one of their novels’ characters.

  3. Set up an ofrenda for your author with your newly decorated sugar skull. Add flowers, candles, your authors favorite foods, books by your author, and other objects that represent their personality.

  4. Want to enter the competition? Take a photo of your decorated calavera and send it to youthservices@basaltlibrary.org by midnight on November 1st.

  5. Check the library’s Facebook page on November 4th to see if you won!
Don't want to enter the competition? Just have fun making your sugar skulls! We would still love to see your creations! 

DIA DE LOS MUERTOS COMPETENCIA DE DECORACIÓN DE LA CALAVERA

Celebre el Dia de Muertos decorando su propia calavera: ¡una calavera hecha de azúcar sólida!  Siga las instrucciones que se muestran a continuación para la decoración de una  calavera básica o una ofrenda a su personaje literario fallecido,  luego  envíenos su creación para participar en la competencia. 

El Día de Muertos es una fiesta que se celebra en  México y en otros países de habla hispana. La celebración empieza  el 31 de octubre y dura hasta  el 2 de noviembre en honor a los amigos y familiares que han fallecido.  Pero el Día de Muertos no es un día de luto, ¡es un día de celebración!  Al crear ofrendas (altares familiares) en el hogar y en  las tumbas de sus seres queridos, las familias los honran con regalos de calaveras, flores, velas y sobretodo sus comidas y bebidas favoritas de los difuntos.  Se cree que las almas de los seres queridos regresan para disfrutar de los obsequios de su ofrenda y a celebrar con sus familiares vivos.  Las calaveras, están hechas de azúcar y decoradas con cuentas, plumas, papel de aluminio o glaseado para expresar la personalidad del difunto.  Pero no intente comerse: las calaveras de azúcar secas son tan duras como una roca y, a menudo, están decoradas con materiales no comestibles. 
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Materiales para llevar a casa:
  • 1 calavera de azúcar
  • Materiales para decorar e incluye pintura, cuentas pedrería y más.
  • Pintura acrilica
Materiales que necesita:
  • Pistola para pegar con glicerina de baja temperatura ( el pegamento para manualidades también funcionará pero tarda más en secarse)
  • Pincel
  • Un espacio en casa en donde pueda ensuciar. Si es el caso de honrar a su personaje literario fallecido, le sugerimos que incluya sus libros, y su comida favorita. ​
Procedimiento:
  1. Planifique los detalles y diseños antes de pegar las decoraciones adicionales.  ¿Necesitas inspiración?  Visite las exhibiciones en línea del Día de Muertos del Centro latino Smithsonian a través de Google Arts & Culture aquí: https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/smithsonian-latino-virtual-museum

  2. Tome una foto de su calavera decorada y envíela a  youthservices@basaltlibrary.org antes de la medianoche del 1 de noviembre. 

  3.  ¡Consulte la página de Facebook de la biblioteca el 4 de noviembre para ver si ganó! 

 ¿Buscas más diversión para el Día de Muertos?  ¡Haz una ofrenda literaria! 
 Instrucciones para la ofrenda literaria
  1. Elija a un autor fallecido para crear una ofrenda.  Investigue un poco: ¿cómo se veían?  ¿Qué tipo de comida y bebida disfrutaron?  ¿Qué se destacó de su personalidad? 

  2.  Pinte y decore su calavera de azúcar para representar a su autor fallecido o uno de los personajes de su novela.  

  3. Prepare una ofrenda para su autor con una calavera de azúcar recién decorada.  Agregue flores, velas, las comidas favoritas de sus autores, libros de su autor y otros objetos que representen su personalidad.

  4. Tome una foto de su calavera decorada y envíela a youthservices@basaltlibrary.org antes de la medianoche del 1 de noviembre. 

  5. ¡Consulte la página de Facebook de la biblioteca el 4 de noviembre para ver si ganó!​
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