Digital Sugar Skull Art Project
No prep sub plans for middle school are easy with my engaging, digital art project to build a sugar skull on Google Slides™. Students will practice technology skills with my digital Day of the Dead skull template and step by step art lesson. Then, pick a Día de los Muertos writing prompt to draft a creative story about their sugar skull craft.
Need fun, fast finisher activities for 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th graders? Digital art projects are paperless, take up no space, and don’t use art materials. Simply assign the Day of the Dead project using your LMS, and stop worrying about early finishers!
Digital Sugar Skull Templates
The Google Slides version of this Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos) lesson includes tech tips and step by step directions with pictures for independent learning. And, kids can build a sugar skull using either copy & paste or drag & drop.
Overview of Creating a Digital Sugar Skull
First, your students will pick a background. Then, kids will paste (or drag) eyes, a nose, a mouth, and any decorations they like.
This digital art activity is a great for teaching symmetry. I’ve included directions on how to copy a graphic and flip it so the designs are symmetrical. I also explain how to group objects so kids can select several objects, group, and flip them all at once.
Technology Skills
- Copy & paste
- Drag & drop
- Rotating
- Ordering
- Resizing
- Grouping
What’s Included
- 9 Student Direction Slides, with step by step tutorial so kids can create their digital Día de los Muertos project independently
- Digital Moveable Pieces, so kids can either copy and paste or drag and drop to create their sugar skull from the templates
- 7 Background Slides, where students will paste or drag their project pieces onto
- 2 Day of the Dead Writing Prompts, for kids to complete after making their sugar skull
- 4 Teacher Examples, fully completed, which you can use to demonstrate
You Will Receive
- 1 Non-Editable PDF (with access link & teacher directions)
- 1 Google Slides Doc (Digital Day of the Dead Art Project & Writing Prompts)
Why You’ll Love It
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Holy cow! I loved this so much to integrate Day of the Dead into my classroom. We celebrate at home and loved sharing my culture with my students.
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LOVE the vocabulary that comes with this! Great visual for the entire unit. All in all a great resource that engaged my grade 4’s. Lovely! merci
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Such a great and fun digital activity! I was able to easily screen share to show my students each step and the different functions in Google Slides. I teach art and always love to do a Day of the Dead project each year, this was a great addition to my rotating lessons for this holiday.
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Therasa T. –
An excellent resource. I would highly recommend it. My students loved this activity.
Laura H. –
My 9th grade World Geography class was studying Latin America in late-October, so this resource was perfectly timed for us. The lesson is all set up and ready to go, and the kids really enjoyed it and were pleased with the results. We printed their skulls, hung them around the room, and it all looked wonderful. The activity was fairly quick (the students were done in about 15 minutes), but that worked out well with my lesson plans for the day. (note: we did NOT use the writing prompts– we only created the skulls)
Kelly A. –
My students LOVED this art project. This resource includes absolutely everything you could need to create a Sugar Skull artwork digitally. Thank you!
Kymberlee Lewis –
Love this product! Very user friendly. Reasonable price and I will definitely purchase from this seller again.
Tatiana P. –
My sixth graders loved creating their sugar skulls digitally on Google Slides. No on had that” I can’t do it” attitude and the results were beautiful! We’ve printed and mounted them and they will be on display for our Hispanic Heritage Month celebration!!
LaMissha Y. –
This was an assest for virtual learning. Colorful, easy to edit and my students loved creating their own digital sugar skulls
Sarah Cole –
We did this a little after dia de los Muertos, but my own children really liked this!
Maestra Amarilis (Teacher-Author) –
Muchas gracias por tan excelente recurso. A mis ni–os les encant—.
iMouritsa (Teacher-Author) –
Thank you! It is an excellent resource! I had quite some fun with it.
prabhjot S. –
Great resource for my art lesson!
Samantha Dooley –
Absolutely loved this one! The kids had a great time in my CS class!
Stephanie L. –
Thank you, great resource!
WeWeilnauDoScience (Teacher-Author) –
A great resource for after tests!
Robyn H. –
Holy cow! I loved this so much to integrate Day of the Dead into my classroom. We celebrate at home and loved sharing my culture with my students.
Terilyn V. –
The digital art is engaging and motivates my students for the writing portion that goes along with it.
Julie D. –
LOVE the vocabulary that comes with this! Great visual for the entire unit. All in all a great resource that engaged my grade 4’s. Lovely! merci
Stephanie J. –
My class of 4th graders had so much fun with this! We did this as a culminating activity after learning about the Day of the Dead. I had several students who created more than one! This also really helped some students who were struggling with symmetry.
Gina Bello –
Loved it!
Julie J –
I used the resource with my concurrent students to create our skulls for Day of the Dead. Since I had concurrent students in one of my classes, I used this for my concurrent students. Normally the students design their skulls on paper, but with having concurrent students online this year I gave my in person students the choice of choosing to make theirs on paper or using this digital template. It worked out very well. The detailed instructions and variety of decorating choices was fabulous.
Sunde Horton –
they really enjoyed this
Gloria B. –
My students really enjoyed creating and decorating their own sugar skulls for dia de los muertos. Thank you!
Veronica I. –
Students loved to create their own digital art! It was also nice to have a mess free option!
TeachLoveSpanish (Teacher-Author) –
Great resource.
Samantha Willoughby –
I needed a different type of artwork to finish off a unit on Celebrations to connect with our History unit in Australia and this was perfect. The students adored making their own skulls and allowed them a very simple way to learn how to flip, rotate and resize on Slides and for some even learning the basics of copy and paste. I printed them A3 and displayed them in our room. Also would’ve been handy in remote learning, we completed these 2 weeks before the current Sydney lockdown was called.
Kaitlin Harfmann –
great resource
Heather G. –
Great resource!
Christine R –
This was a great way to do my Day of the Dead art project with my Spanish Club students, but allow them to do it at home.
Maria Villarreal –
This digital resource was an excellent tool utilized during virtual learning. Students were able to app-smash their creations.
Temp Name (Teacher-Author) –
Fun mini lesson.
SHERRY M. –
Used virtually to practice symmetry for math! The students loved it!
Kyle B. –
Students enjoyed this easy to use lesson! Thank you!
Lisa T. –
We loved this resource in class. It was great to use for our hybrid model of in person students and virtual students. So user friendly. Thanks.
Courtney Q. –
My students loved using this resource. They were able to be creative and have fun.
Paul H. –
Being able to differentiate along with a collaboration option with slides is important to our class. It was easy to do in this format and led to other ideas with projects. Thank you!
Janie C. –
This was a little too difficult for my 4th, 5th graders. I do appreciate all the hard work that went into making these slides. Thank you!
Isabella V. –
Students loved the activity, thank you!
Karyn Balan –
Such a great and fun digital activity! I was able to easily screen share to show my students each step and the different functions in Google Slides. I teach art and always love to do a Day of the Dead project each year, this was a great addition to my rotating lessons for this holiday.
Courtney N. –
This was so fun, and also worked as a way to teach shortcuts on Chromebooks for cut/paste.
Sara C. –
great resource
Teaching in Texas (Teacher-Author) –
Kids loved making their sugar skulls!
La Clase de Profe Berg (Teacher-Author) –
I’m so thankful that this made Sugar Skulls possible through distance learning! Thank you!
Lessons in a Bubble – Kimberly Jacobs (Teacher-Author) –
The assignment was to make one. Some kids made 5. They loved it. I will be buying one for every season.
Deanna Solis –
Love these new products! Thank you!
Brittni M. –
Such a fun way for students to be creative while also learning something new!
Ana G. –
The students loved this activity. I enjoyed it too. For classes that have high needs I just cut some slides out to give them less options.
Lorena L. –
A great resource for distant learning.
CleverCommonCore (Teacher-Author) –
I used this resource as part of a study on Day of the Dead
AllieShae S. –
Great resource for distance learning. Kids loved learning about Day of the Dead.
Sara M. –
This was AMAZING. It was SO much fun to do something artsy after learning about the Day of the Dead in my English Language development classes. I also used it with my after school club – since we are remote, it was the perfect thing to get everyone talking! They made their own slide then pasted it into a blank slideshow with every other student’s slide. They had so much fun talking about each other’s work and giving compliments – fun, good speaking practice, opened up the shy ones – I would and will use this again.