Hispanic Heritage Month: Decorating Sugar Skulls

Try your hand at decorating a “sugar skull”, used as part of the Day of the Dead celebration.

Sugar skulls are decorative or edible skulls made (usually by hand) from either sugar (called Alfeñiques) or clay which are used in the Mexican celebration of the Day of the Dead (Día de Muertos) and the Roman Catholic holiday All Souls’ Day. Calavera can also refer to any artistic representations of skulls, such as the lithographs of José Guadalu  They are often created with cane sugar and are decorated with items such as colored foil, icing, beads, and feathers.

 For more information contact Daniel Cortez at dcortez@bmcc.cuny.edu.

See the complete list of Hispanic Heritage Month events at BMCC.

• + Google Calendar
• + iCal Export