Sugar Skulls



Making the sugar mixture




Unmolded skulls




Yum!!!



This past week, students in grades  4th through 8th, had the opportunity to create authentic sugar skulls and Mexican hot chocolate for Dia de los Muertos. In September, classes did a webquest on Diego Rivera and learned how his art style popularized skeleton and skull art in Mexico, in early October they viewed a PBS documentary on the Mexican holiday and learned more about the practices of skull making and decorating. and finally they tried their hands at the art; carefully molding wet sand-like sugar into their own creations and decorating them. Students had lots of fun getting sugar all over and now let's hope the ants don't learn about it too!!!