Yesterday we made our way to The Montclair Art Museum (http://www.montclairartmuseum.org) for a homeschool art class. We used to go to a lot of these but schedules being what they are this is the first one we have been able to attend in over a year.
The class was on Dia de Los Muertos (The Day of the Dead), a holiday celebrated in Mexico on November 1st and 2nd. I learned that the 1st is the day the gates of heaven open and deceased children are reunited with their parents for 24 hours. On the 2nd everyone is reunited. The kids talked about the different materials used in creating the folk art that goes along with the holiday. Then they took a gallery tour of current folk art on display and related it to what they had discussed. Finding the different materials used, looking at the overall picture created by the individual materials, and observing different kinds of folk art.
After the gallery they created their own skull masks using different materials.
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| Mister B tracing the outline of the skull for the mask. |
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| Little Miss tracing the skull outline. |
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| Decorating the mask. |
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| Proper placement of the teeth is very important. |
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| Choosing just the right angle. |
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| Mister B and his finished mask. |
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| Little Miss M and her completed mask. |
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