Day of the Dead Crafts for the Mexican Holiday

Use Duck Tape to create colorful flowers for this unique Dia de Los Muertos wreath! It’s so easy and fun to create. Use a black wreath for a base.

Do you love Day of the Dead crafts? Use napkins to create these unique decorative luminaries! So fun for Halloween and beyond.

This unique calavera (skull) art was made using a recycled pallet. Perfect for Dia de Los Muertos, but you can keep it up all year!

Are you ready for a cool Day of the Dead pumpkin craft you can make in a matter of minutes? You can customize this project with any napkins you like.

The color from these jars comes from glow sticks! You can use colored Mod Podge to get the same effect. Either way, you'll draw the simple faces on the front using permanent marker.

This pretty floral headband is great for a Day of the Dead fancy dress costume! Combine with a little makeup and you or your children are ready to celebrate.

This is one of the most unique Day of the Dead crafts I've ever seen! Learn how to transform an old Barbie into a sugar skull girl with a little makeup and outfit change.

Those colorful, festive cut paper banners you see on Día de los Muertos altars and at Mexican celebrations are papel picado. All you need to make these is tissue paper, the free template, and a pair of scissors.

These puffy paint sugar skull rocks are a great project for all ages to help learn and celebrate Day of the Dead! Get Sam's best tips for this project as well as the type of paint you should use.

Celebrate Dia de los Muertos with this fun and easy no-carve pumpkin! Paint this fun skeleton face on your fall pumpkin using ONLY stencils! No freehand painting required.

These easy sugar skulls are an awesome dollar store craft that will really make your Halloween decor pop this year. And even better, you don’t have to be an amazing artist for painting sugar skulls. Simple patterns including swirls, dots, and flowers are all that is needed to create this eye-catching design.

Are you having a Dia de Los Muertos party this year? If so, you'll definitely want to make this cool sugar skull pinata! You can adapt this idea for just about any holiday.

Want some stylish sneaks for the holiday? Learn how to decorate a pair of white Vans with a drawn design that lasts. You'll illustrate in pencil first.

These glowing Day of the Dead sugar skulls are super easy to make and will be a great decoration for your celebration! Don't love the hats? They're my favorite.

Learn how to make a terrific dimensional sugar skull t-shirt for Day of the Dead. This design could be done on almost anything from a tote bag to the back of a jean jacket!

With some felt scraps, embroidery thread, stuffing, and embellishments you can make the cutest (colorful!) sugar skulls! Perfect for kids and beginning sewists that want to celebrate Dia de los Muertos.

Grab a roll of contact paper at the dollar store and then draw sugar skull faces - add the cellophane to make them colorful! Both kids and adults will love this idea.

One of my favorite things about Day of the Dead is the costumes! I absolutely love the face paint idea from Gina, and it's perfect for holiday dress up.

During Day of the Dead celebrations, people honor their ancestors with altars. Learn how to make and decorate your own using inexpensive supplies and this tutorial.

Use a real or faux pumpkin to make a sugar skull design for Halloween! This is really easy to do with paint and a pencil.

During Dia de los Muertos, sugar skulls and other decorated skull-like things are given to the living and the dead. These calaveras planters are perfect for painting and turning into a useful gift! The plants kinda look like hair.

f you are looking for a cool five minute craft for Halloween or Day of the Dead, then you'll love this post. These sugar skull luminaries are ridiculously quick and easy to make . . . you will wonder why you hadn’t thought of them sooner.

Vanessa gives you a free printable so you can trace a calavera directly onto shrink plastic. Then from there, you can create bracelets, a pin, or just about any other jewelry you like.

I never understood how easy a pinata was to make until I tried one for the first time! This one is made into a skull shape perfect for celebrating.

These Day of the Dead sugar skull pumpkin candle holders are an easy Dia de los Muertos craft project. These pumpkins will make a fun centerpiece and are also ideal for a holiday altar. 

If you have a cutting machine, then this calaveras doll can be made with ease. Anneliese gives you her free patterns, and only basic hand sewing skills are required.

These little Day of the Dead skull dolls are fun for both kids and adults! They look fantastic as stand-alone ornaments but also look amazing added to table centerpieces.

Use collage clay or craft plastic to cover a skull - then embed rhinestones right into it! This blingy skeleton is a perfect decoration for Dia de Los Muertos.

Make a colorful and unique Day of the Dead animals skeleton that can double as a Die de Los Muertos and a Halloween decoration this fall.

There's a variety of Dead of the Dead crafts within this post! One of my favorites is the wooden spoons decorated with markers. Use brightly colored markers to turn these into plant pokes, puppets, or some other type of decor.

Air dry clay is one of my favorite mediums to work with, especially when it comes to crafting with kids. You can use it along with some paint and Mod podge to create the coolest necklaces.

Not only are these painted sugar skull flower pots easy to make, but they look beautiful on display and would be a wonderful centerpiece, party gift or party craft for Day of the Dead.

On a painted foam wreath base, Jessica added tons of cardstock paper flowers and a few sugar skulls to make a unique wreath! I love the vibrant colors this wreath adds to Day of the Dead decor.

In some parts of Mexico children roam the streets for Day of the Dead, knocking on doors asking for small candies and money, just like Halloween trick-or-treating. Use fabric spray paint to make shirts that kids can wear for the celebration.