Monday, November 26, 2007

Mexican Market





Every year the second grade has a big Mexican Market to finish off their unit on Mexico. Each student has to make a couple of dozen items that could be found in a Mexican Market and then they sell them to each other. We spent our weekend making Day of the Dead Sugar Skulls. I discovered that puff paint actually works really well for this project. You can get pretty good details, and then it kind of melts down into the sugar. It gives you a really neat effect. Then, my favorite part was when Miss C realized it's all about the presentation and came up with the packaging technique. Bags, shredded colored paper to contrast the white skulls and then a label.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

I love them!!!! They look fantastic - Cassidy will be a hit at the mexican market.

Kami said...

Those are so freakin adorable!!!! The Mexican Market sounds like so much fun!! Miss C looks so cute working on her project, and she did a great job!

karen said...

Way to go miss C. They look great.

Felicia said...

That looks like a fun project :)

My Happy Turtle said...

The sugar skulls look great! And I love the colored paper in the bags.

Natalie, the Chickenblogger said...

Those look awesome. ¡Bien hecho!