Dia De los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, is one of our favorite celebrations. The kids enjoy the dressing up and crafting while I enjoy bringing my grandparents back to life.

This year I wanted the kids to make something to go along with the theme of calaveritas. We enjoy decorating the skull faces with bright colors and shapes much like an authentic sugar skull. These are perfect for Halloween or Día de los Muertos.

To create your own calaverita here is what you need:

1- Craft glue spots

2- Glitter Glue

3- A skull paper to use as stencil

4- Magnets with or without adhesive

5-Jewels

6-A black marker

7-Felt (we use glittered stiff felt)

8-Scissors (not pictured)

Let’s get started:

Trace your stencil onto the felt lightly and cut.

With a marker draw a nose and a mouth.

Add jewel eyes and trace with glitter glue.

Continue to embellish your calaverita using different color glitter glue.

Wait for it to dry (over night is best) and add your magnets.

If magnets have adhesive, peel and paste.

If magnets don’t have adhesive, use glue spots to adhere.

All done!

¡Feliz Día de los Muertos! 

Check out this super cute girlie version of Mama Yala’s Calaca printable. Click on the link below for a printable version you can share with your niños. If you’re looking for more Day of the Dead/Día de Muertos fun or celebration ideas be sure to check out our Celebrate Day of the Dead/ Día de los Muertos page. You’ll also find a blog hop there that will link you to lots of great posts all about this fabulous cultural holiday.

For a male version of this calaca, you can click here.

Click here for a printable version of this coloring page.

The Day of the Dead fun has officially begun here at SpanglishBaby. Mama Yala has shared with us this super cute calaca,  or skull, coloring page for our niños to enjoy. If you’re looking for even more Day of the Dead fun make sure to check out our Day of the Dead/ Dia de los Muertos page to find everything from books, craft, and recipes to and explanation on how to celebrate!

For a girl version of this calaca, click here.

For a printable version of this coloring page click here.

One of our favorite times of the year at SpanglishBaby is here: Day of the Dead/Día de Muertos.

We love embracing it because of the deep traditions, symbolism and colors it brings to our bicultural lives. It´s an especially fun time of the year to create original crafts and activities with our kids.

This is our third year celebrating this special occasion with you. If you´re looking  for information on what Día de Muertos is and how to celebrate, then check out these posts:

How To Make Paper Flowers For Your Día de Muertos Altar

How To Make a Unique Day of the Dead Art Project and Craft

How To Bake a Traditional Pan de Muerto

Cultures Intertwined: Halloween vs Día de los Muertos

Kid Friendly Day of the Dead Activities + Crafts

How To Celebrate Dia de Muertos

Dia de los Muertos Finds Part One and Part Two

Two Día de Muertos Finds You’ll Love

Introducing Your Bilingual Children to New Cultural Traditions

Now, on our third year are dedicating a whole week to have a Day of the Dead fiesta full of crafts, recipes, stories and a our very first ever Facebook photo contest!

Click on the image to download the Calaverita

We want the SpanglishBaby niños y niñas to have some fun with us and help you win one of three prizes in our Design Your Own Calaverita and Win! Contest:

Grand Prize: $100 Walmart Giftcard,  a Celebrate Day of the Dead Party Planner E-book.

Two runners up will each win: $25 Walmart gift cards, plus a Celebrate Day of the Dead Party Planner E-book.

We really want to have fun with this one, so we´ve created a Facebook contest.

To enter, download and print this adorable Calaverita that our amiga at Viva Greetings has designed exclusively for us.

Give it to your kid(s) and let them get creative and have fun with it. They can paint, color, glitter and sparkle-it, cut and paste to it, whatever they like!

Take a picture of their creation, or scan it, and then go to our Facebook Photo Contest page here to upload.

Submit your Calavera between today, October 17 through October 23.   As soon as voting starts on October 24 make sure you to let all your friends know to vote for your kid´s calaverita. They can vote once per day until October 30.

A huge Gracias to Carla from Viva Greetings for creating the calavera design for us. We´re so excited we can now find her awesome cards and designs at Target! Check out the Viva Greetings Facebook page for details and fun cositas!

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