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'Day of the Dead' Skull Banner Create the perfect felt skull banner for your Mexican holiday celebration. From "Craft Lab" episode DCLB-120

Guest Kathy Cano Murillo joins host Jennifer Perkins in DIY's Craft Lab to create a colorful felt skull banner for the Mexican "Day of the Dead" holiday celebration.

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Guest Kathy Cano Murillo creates this colorful banner for the Mexican "Day of the Dead" holiday celebration.

Project designed by Kathy Cano Murillo.

Day of the Dead Skull Banner

Materials:

4 sheets of felt, 2 black and 2 white
assorted sheets of other colors of felt
skull template (can be found in craft shops, art stores and countless online sites)
scissors
white craft glue or hot-glue gun
1 strand of thin ribbon, 24" long

Optional: embroidery thread and needle, sequins, felt flowers, fringe, buttons

1. Cut each sheet of felt into four pieces. Pull out five pieces in assorted colors to use as your background and set aside.

2. Take six white pieces and, one by one, lay the template on top and cut around it to create the skull shape.

3. Take a colored background piece and glue the skull in the center. Take a piece of black felt and cut two circles for the eyes, a triangle for the nose and pieces for the mouth/teeth. Glue them in place on the skull.

4. Apply flowers, sequins, etc., as desired. Let dry. Continue with the remaining four background pieces. Mix up the facial features to give your banner personality—use red felt to create lips, or make eyelashes, for example. Use embroidery thread to stitch on designs or add buttons.

5. Arrange the pieces in a row, and then carefully flip them all over, back side up. Add a line of glue along the top edge of each piece and press the ribbon in place across all of them to connect them, leaving a "tail" on each end for hanging.

RESOURCES :

Crafty Chica's Art de la Soul: Glittery Ideas to Liven Up Your Life
by Kathy Cano Murillo
Rayo Books/HarperCollins
Website: www.rayobooks.com

GUESTS :

Kathy Cano Murillo
Crafty Chica Designs
patrickandkathymurillo.stores.yahoo.net/