Clay Skull Design Ideas – Hello everyone and welcome to the Halloween/Day of the Dead design event. As a K-8 art teacher, I look for easy “filler” projects that students can create. Enter Delight™ Air Dry Modeling Compound and Silicone Mold!
Browsing my favorite craft store, I found the skull silicone mold on sale (woohoo!). Of course I picked it up to try it out. As soon as I got home, I got out my Delight mud and got to work. I took out some clay, squeezed it in my hand, and then rolled it into a ball. The ball is pressed firmly into one of the skull slots in the mold until you are sure the clay has filled the space. Then I repeat the process until all the gaps are filled.
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I tried to get the clay out of the mold, but it left a big nail in the skull. It wasn’t the look I was going for, so I put the mold in the refrigerator and let it sit for about 15 minutes. Bingo! The skulls came off easily and without distortion. I repeated the process with the rest of the Delight™ package (note: I was able to create 16 skulls (each 1/2 inch thick) from one package of clay. If I created thinner skulls, of course, more could be made .
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(Note: if you are a patient soul, the clay can be left to dry in the mold. As I mentioned, I am not the most patient soul to work with 😉)
Place all the skulls on a paper towel and let them dry overnight. In the morning I turned the skulls over to make sure they were completely dry.
Alternative drying method: Place them on a drying rack to allow air to circulate and speed up the process. Plus, there’s no need to rotate the pieces!
Once dry I got to work with Prismacolor® markers (note: Sharpie® markers also work for this part). I googled “sugar skull designs” and found some decorating ideas. I went to work.
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I used the fine tip for most of the coloring. The clay takes colors beautifully and doesn’t seem to “bleed.” You can add glitter or crystals or color… if you can imagine it, I’m sure! I have some that I can use nail polish on to give dimensional details.
I hope you enjoy this quick and easy craft. The finished skulls can be used in a variety of ways: pins, magnets, table toppers, wreaths, or shadow boxes…they’re also light enough to make earrings! it is. You can do a lot with it, from small things to plates and bowls. It’s really versatile and then you just let it dry and it hardens completely.
A few weeks ago we made these sugar skulls while we were playing with it and a few days ago we finally got around to painting them and changing the necklace we had planned.
We started by molding the clay into the shape of sugar skulls and then used cocktail sticks to decorate them. I’d say it was actually me, but Cheri was doing other little things that you can see in the photo below. They were probably a little small for her and she was happy making doll food, but if she had asked me to do the same, I would have helped her make a bigger one.
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After finishing the decoration, I made a hole from left to right (instead of front to front), this way you have to twist the toothpick to let the needle pass through. They become necklaces.
Then you should let it dry, this usually takes about 48 hours, but it can be a little faster if you store it in a warm place. We ended up leaving ours behind for a few weeks because we forgot about them!
When painting, I first seal them with a layer of mod pod, this prevents them from absorbing water from the paint.
I painted them with a small brush and let them dry before adding another coat of Mod Podge to secure them.
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After it dried, I used a needle to make a hole, I only separated one thread from the cut thread (made of 6 threads) but you can use finer thread.
Then they were ready to use. Cherry and Tiger are currently obsessed with skeletons, so they were a real hit!
Jess is an award-winning blogger with a passion for crafts. She loves peppermint tea, cakes, crochet, charity shops and all things vintage, sculpting her own “sugar” skulls (in clay) and placing them on colorful backgrounds.
, (Day of the Dead) is celebrated on November 2, originally a Mesoamerican holiday to celebrate the past in Mexico and Central America. Some who celebrate the festival believe that the veil between the spirit world and the human world is lifted and that the spirits can visit their family members on earth. Interestingly, this belief is even more interesting considering that it is a belief held by other cultures around the world: the belief that our transition to the spirit world occurs at the same time of year.
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Or an offering, placed on the grave of the deceased or as an altar in the house. Offerings include flowers (usually marigolds), favorite food and drink of the deceased family member, photographs, special jewelry,
And sugar skulls. Sugar skulls are sometimes eaten, but their main function is to decorate altars and tombs as a delicacy for visiting spirits.
This is the altar my family and I set up in our home for Day of the Dead this year (2020), in honor of our deceased relatives.
It wasn’t always a sugar skull that was part of the sacrifice. Sugar skulls were once real skulls, used by Mesoamericans to celebrate self-sacrifice as the next stage of life, death. Before dating, skulls were used on altars to honor the gods of the afterlife. Spanish colonialists were outraged by the ban on what they considered an anti-Catholic practice. So rather than eliminating the practice entirely, Mesoamericans replaced it with sugar skulls and stuck to the sugary, moldy delicacy brought to the Americas by Spanish monks. What do you think is funny?
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The students made their own skulls from the magic template. Techniques for shaping the skull are shown. Students used markers to design the skull features and inspired their designs from ice patterns on real sugar skulls. To add color to the work, which is very popular during the holidays.
Art teacher Anita Sagasteghi’s modeling techniques for sculpting and pinching clay Art teacher Anita Sagasteghi’s modeling techniques for sculpting and pinching clay This is an easy way to make a versatile clay skull, even if you have no modeling experience of clay. (like me).
Dollar Tree These silicone ice trays are shaped like skulls. I bought one and tried a couple of ideas that didn’t work and came up with this one.
Just to make sure nothing sticks, I sprinkled mine with cornstarch (like you would scrape it into a cake pan).
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I worked on parchment paper for this project. Pack the clay in your hands and form it into a ball the size of the mold. Starting in the center, press the clay into the mold. Make sure you press firmly and leave the back as flat as possible and with the edges of the mold as close as possible.
Remove the clay carefully. Mine slipped right away. Then, on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper, cook in the oven according to package directions and refrigerate when removed. I took a damp paper towel to wipe any remaining cornstarch off the finished piece.
Now is the time to cheer him up. I simply used a colored pen with a serrated tip and a black micron pen.
Then I went in with the black one for more details. And here I reworked it to cover the missing white parts that looked messy and used black.
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Let it dry and then spray with clear gloss. Start from afar and apply a light mist. This helps the designs work. Let it dry and repeat the process until you get the shine you want. Let it dry. It’s not necessary to mirror it, but it makes a big difference and highlights the contrast.
Now you can use this type for decorations or other decorations, like I did below. If you want to do this