Sugar Skull Mask

Here are some of our Day of the Dead 3d masks made out of Paper Mâché.
We used a plastic face mold to shape each mask.  The goop was a mixture of elmers art paste and watery elmers glue.  The ratio was about 3:1.  Elmers art paset alone does not harden up or make for a strong mask.  Students were asked to do four layers of mâché (2 with newspaper, two with white construction paper). We did the mache on a Friday and the masks were dry on Monday. When dry they were painted with white tempera and decorated with watercolor and of course, GLITTER!