"Day of the Dead" masks.

The kids in art class this morning were making clay for their "Day of the Dead" masks. 

The "Day of the Dead" is held every year on November 1st and is the most important festival in Mexico.On this day, people remember their relatives and friends that have died. Placing lighted candles and flowers on their grave. Many Mexicans stay up all night to remember those who have died. Mexicans believe the dead come back to life on this day and so they cook the favorite food of their loved ones who have died and place it on their graves or on household altars for them to eat. Many of the items that are made to celebrate the "Day of the Dead" have a lot of humor and are designed to make people laugh! Hahahahaha!!!!:) Throughout the year in Mexico, toy makers spend their time making the things they are going to sell for the "Day of the Dead." These are enjoyed as much by the adults as by the children. 

Today the 7th grade art students made baker's clay out of flour, warm water and  lots of salt! It turned out to be a giant clay pile in the refrigerator because each table made their own pile of clay and the whole class put all of their piles and made it into one huge pile of baker's clay. Now, it is sitting in the fridge in the back closet! Yay! 

The 8th grade art students made theirs yesterday and it is also a big pile of clay in the refrigerator. No, its a cool project to do because I've never made my own clay...especially in an art class! It was REALLY fun because we got to do it with our table mate and my table mate happens to be one of my really close friends. Well, that's all I have to say! Bye Bye!

                                                            ~ Logan R. and Myra K. (7th grade art students)


We started watching a movie about how the Mexican culture celebrates "The Death Of There Family Members", They celebrated by Singing music, dancing, an wearing colorful masks. We Decided To make mask out of homemade bakers clay. We used: Flour, Salt, and Water, an the outcome was a soft dough looking substance. It took one day to shape our clay into the way we wanted it. Some of my classmates made theirs into a Sun, Lady Bug , and Skeleton shape, and then came the baking part. A couple of days later we painted our mask an there was all kinds of colors an designs.  I was actually proud of my classmates and I, we took our time an our masks turned out to be better then we expected they turned out AWESOME!!

Marcasia J. 8th Grade Art