Celebrate Day of the Dead with one of these fun DIY color your own Sugar Skull Surprise Ball. Color your own and mix and match the face pieces from the Free Sugar Skull Surprise Ball Faces Printable Template for even more fun, a great way to get the kids involved! Then give them to friends and family to help them celebrate this fun holiday! Be sure to download the Free Sugar Skull Surprise Ball Printable Template here!
First thing you'll do is find your roundest object to start the surprise ball. Wrap your Light-Up Skull Puffer Ball YoYo with the White Streamer Paper. When the YoYo is completely covered cut the streamer and secure with glue.
Next, take one of the cute little Long Arm Bright Plush Skeletons and wrap it around the ball, how you wrap this around the ball will change the shape of the skull, so play with it a bit until you get the shape you want and then wrap with streamer and cut and glue.
Next take my kids favorite thing in the bunch, one of these Stretchy Skeletons and wrap it to the skull.
These Bone-Shaped Erasers are super fun and are the next thing to add to the surprise ball, wrap, cut and glue.
Now, these are my favorite item! I love these Day of the Dead Necklaces, and they are what gets wrapped into the Sugar Skull next.
Last thing to go in to the ball are these fun Day of the Dead Glow in the Dark Tattoos! That's right, they glow in the dark! Wrap these in to the ball and shape as you need to with the tissue paper. Trim off and glue.
Now you have your skull shape ... and really any shape goes on these. This next step is where it's going to look like a Sugar Skull! Take your Sharpie Markers® and print out the Sugar Skull Surprise Ball Faces Template on some white card stock. Download the Free Sugar Skull Surprise Ball Printable Template here! Color the pieces and cut them out.
Now you will just glue the pieces on. To make them even more dimensional add some Self-Adhesive Daisies.
With the markers, add mustaches, dots, mouths, eyebrows, hearts ... whatever you want to do! Seriously so much fun.
Now you can give your Sugar Skull Surprise Ball full of all of these fun prizes! These are fun for Day of the Dead parties, Halloween, or even birthday gifts!
Want more surprise ball ideas? Be sure to check out all of our Surprise Ball Ideas that make a great DIY gift or party favor.