On the website, McArdle explains how to make a sugar skull and decorate it in traditional manner. “My detailed, step-by-step tutorials walk you through the process of making sugar skulls ...

There are many traditions observed on the Day of the Dead, and the skull is known as a very important emblem of the holiday. Part of that is the calavera, or the sugar skull, which has various ...

In addition to the ofrendas, people throughout the cities of Mexico will paint their faces in sugar skull makeup and dress up in colorful dresses with floral prints and designs during the parades.

Non-Mexicans may recognize the sugar skull aesthetic from their friends' ill-advised Halloween costumes, but many may not realize where the iconography of skeletons bearing flowers, fruit and ...

Downtown Aurora will once again be transformed into Sugar Skull City on Sunday, beginning a three-week celebration of the Day of the Dead which will run through Nov. 5. Once again the Aurora ...

Maggie Wolters-Williams makes sugar skulls for families to place on their ofrendas. Every year, Maggie Wolters-Williams’ house is filled with white skulls waiting their turn to go to other homes ...

In recent years, ornate sugar skulls, aka calaveras, have become an increasingly popular design for Halloween celebrations in the U.S. Think cute, ornate skull cookies or white makeup with bright ...

Early every November, the neighborhood is awash in wildly decorated calaveras de azúcar, or sugar skulls, pieces of traditional Mexican folk art that bear distinctive patterns. Sometimes brightly ...