Teach your kids about Mexican culture with these fun and beautiful crafts!
Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos) is celebrated on November 1st every year, and has been rolled into Halloween celebrations everywhere. This year, make these super fun 25 Day of the Dead Crafts for Kids (with tons of sugar skull crafts in there for anyone who loves Mexican folk art!) and teach your kids about this holiday, as well as their own ancestors who have passed. Have fun!
25 Day of the Dead Crafts for Kids
This beautiful garland is fun for kids to make and a great way to celebrate the Day of the Dead.
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Corks make for adorable skull art! Your kids are going to love decorating these.
Via Red Ted Art
This Day of the Dead sun catcher will look beautiful in your window this November.
Via The Artful Parent
Make a Day of the Dead tree to hang your sugar skull ornaments for all to see!
Via Growing Up Bilingual
This skeleton dinosaur is a great way for kids to ‘play’ with Day of the Dead crafts.
Via Fantastic Fun and Learning
These felt sugar skulls can be coordinated into tons of different looks!
Via Crafts on Sea
Make this calavera with your kiddo (from items you can find at the dollar store!) and you’ll have a decoration that lasts for years!
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Frieda and Diego are the ultimate Day of the Dead couple, and your child is going to love making them come to live with this art project.
Via Modern Art 4 Kids
These skull lanterns glow in the dark and make for beautiful night lights for your child’s room.
Via Growing Up Bilingual
You can make skull jewelry and wear it year round.
Via Tried and True
Your child is going to love making their own Day of the Dead skull using mini marshmallows!
Via No Time For Flashcards
Or for more marshmallow fun, you can draw on these marshmallows with edible markers and make your own marshmallow skull pops.
Via Mom
These articulated skeletons can be made to look like anything your child wants to create. They’re moveable dolls that work as decoration.
Via Knitting Iris
These air-drying clay skulls are fun to make and can be used as jewelry or ornaments.
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Your child will love making their own skeletons using q-tips.
Via Green Bay Art Room
Teach your child about Day of the Dead with this shrine. It’s a wonderful way to honor their family members who have passed, and learn more about this holiday.
Via Makezine
Draw sugar skull faces onto balloons to make gorgeous decorations for your Day of the Dead party.
Via Growing Up Bilingual
This paper mache skull can be found at many craft stores, and then your child can decorate it with markers or even crayons.
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Play around with sugar skull designs by drawing them onto plastic drinking cups. Better yet, add lights and make them into kid lanterns!
Via Growing Up Bilingual
This salt dough skull bead can be part of a chunky necklace for your child’s Day of the Dead celebrations.
Via Moment to Moment
These beautiful sugar skull spoons are fun to make and will make for gorgeous decorations in your kitchen this fall!
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You can paint sugar skulls onto rocks and keep them as paper weights or simple decorations.
Via Hodge Podge Craft
These sugar skulls are actual sugar lollypops. Your kids are going to love making them AND eating them!
Via Still Playing School
These sun catchers are almost neon, and totally cook as Halloween or Dia de los Muertos decorations.
Via B Kids
These easy skull prints are made using foam. Kids are going to love how fantastically easy they are to make, and the colored glue outlining really makes these stand out!
