Mexican Art – The Festival of the Days of the Dead

All Year 9 students have produced a decorated skull based on those used to celebrate the Mexican Festival of ‘Los Dias de Los Muertos’.

The festival takes place at the same time as Halloween and All Saints Day but is a time of remembering those friends and family members who have died. Skeletons and skulls are found everywhere in a festive and comical mood. Traditionally they are made from wood, clay, paper-mache and even sugar!

All students researched the Festival and worked from replica skulls borrowed from Cardiff Museum before inventing their own design. Year 9 then used paper- mache on a base of either card or a balloon, to build up the shape of the skull. They have been decorated using Mexican style pattern and vivid colour.