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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I used this resource in my World Cultures class this year. We did a lesson on Dia de Los Muertos, and then this was the extension activity I had for my students. So many of my kids wanted to make a copy for themselves so that they could keep creating! It was fun and super easy to use.
I thought my students would explore this resource for a longer period of time, but it wnded up being a fun activity for 5-7 minutes. Good for station work or an end of class filler. Was fun and colorful!
Great digital product for students to follow along!
An excellent resource. I would highly recommend it. My students loved this activity.
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)