 Hey everybody, let's make some kalakas. Okay, so we had already built the altar And now we're gonna make some decorations for it. So Obviously the kalakas is a huge symbol for Day of the Dead. Schools are everywhere during Day of the Dead So I've got this one here that we can sort of model ourselves on and some of my colleagues have made little schools and stuff earlier That we can sort of show you how hopefully years will turn out. Okay So out of the kit that you got you're gonna need some of the clay. You have two packets Some of the little jewels and stuff that you've got little craft trims your glitter glue You're gonna need some markers and a pencil. Okay So we'll do that if you didn't pick up a kit any white clay will work We just got this Because that's what we've got and you can even do another color of clay if you feel like it. It's your school. Do your thing On the instruction sheet you'll see that the instructions for the kalakas are on the back So we'll follow those. Okay, so the first thing we want to do is open our clay packets should have done this before, huh? Got one piece of clay there Lump of clay and so we gave you two packets so that you could choose whether you want to make a big school a big galaka or Two smaller kalakas or maybe even for teeny tiny kalakas. I'm gonna put these two together to make a big one Just so that it's a little easier to see on camera This you want to manipulate a little bit in your hands squeeze it around a little bit So it starts to warm up and soften up and then once you've got it nice and soft and warm We're gonna start to form the actual school. Okay The reason that schools are such a big part of Dia de los Muertos is because originally the goddess of death presided over all of the festivities Dia de los Muertos has been celebrated for over 3,000 years and so in the time of the Mexica, the Aztecs Their goddess of death, Micteca Siewat Was actually the one that presided over the festivities and since she was the goddess of death and her image was a skull Now we have kalakas and skulls all over the place for day of the death So I've got this nice and soft and warm and now you're gonna use your hands to roll it into a ball It doesn't have to be the most perfect ball in the whole world as long as it's a nice ball Got a ball. The next thing you want to do is shape a little mouth on your kalakas So I'm gonna use my two fingers and I'm gonna pull down a little tiny bit As you can see to start shaping What's going to be? My mouth this could take some doing you may have to try a few times, you know, maybe the first time you do it You have to roll it back into a ball because it takes a little a few tries, but it doesn't have to be perfect I mean really it's it's your skull You can even if you want use the edge of the table to help mold it a little bit Sometimes I do that if you want a nice sharp edge. I feel like For what I've got going on today This is a pretty good kalakas shape. So as you can see now It actually looks kind of like a little bit of a dog, but either way Now you've got the skull shape on the top and the shape at the bottom where the mouth is going to be and the nose, okay? So now what we're going to do is we're going to form the eyes So in the instructions it says to take the tip of a pencil and poke holes where you believe the eyes are going to be You may have to rotate the pencil like this a tiny bit to make the holes of the eyes a little bit bigger because obviously just a little The eraser end isn't going to be big enough to where you actually have eyes But as you can see with a little bit of manipulation and a little bit of rotation You actually end up with some pretty good eye holes in this kalakas So now we have the skull part the mouth part the two eyes And what you can do is actually take that tip of the pencil to and form a little nose in the middle of your kalakas If you need a little bit of a sharper point you can take the tip of the pencil to try to shape that a little bit into more of a triangle and Then just use the other the eraser end to sort of smooth it out So now we have a little triangle in the middle there for the nose Some eyes and then you can take the very tip of the pencil and if you want trace some lines Across here to form some teeth Because every school has teeth, right So I just did two lines across some lines down and then another line in the middle there to form some teeth Take your time with this to the clay is going to be pliable for a long time So, you know if you're not happy with how it turned out Smooth it out ball it up again, and then start over. It's not a big deal But now you can see that we've got our two eyes the nose the teeth and now we're going to decorate this Okay, while the clay is still wet is when you really want to press in the jewels if you want to use jewels or sequins And then we're going to let it dry and then after that we'll use markers and the glitter glue to decorate it Okay, so I'm going to take these two blue jewels because they're both around and I'm going to put them over the eyes and press Them in a tiny little bit so that the clay catches them Press them in a tiny little bit so that the clay catches them try not to ruin the work you've done with the nose But as you can see now I've got these two cool Jewel eyes I'm going to take this other red jewel. It's a square and I'm going to put it at the very top of the kalaka To give it a little bit of something on this forehead And now We're pretty much there Normally, I would let this dry for 24 hours before I tried to decorate it with markers or with glitter glue But because we're shooting a little video today. It's not a big deal Next up I'm going to take a marker and I think I'm going to draw some little designs I want a little bit of a you know Thing here along the sort of cheekbone of my kalaka and do the same thing on the other side So as you can see, I've just got a little bit of a line there Maybe I will take my green marker Because I don't have any green on here yet and draw a little bit of something around the nose Maybe some dots, you know This is really where you get to be as creative as you want so I've got some dots around my nose maybe you want to take a marker and actually Do the lines for your teeth so now that we've got them in there We can actually take a marker and really make them jump out You know and this part you want to be kind of careful because once you make the marker marks There's not really any taking it back You know, I've got a little teeth now in there Maybe my kalaka could have gone to the dentist a few more times in his life Who knows and I've got this and then now to add a little bit of glitz I'm going to take my glitter glue and maybe I'm going to put a little bit of glue I don't know. Maybe I'm going to put it on one tooth, you know Maybe you've got a little grill and maybe I'll do some little tracing here around the top jewel To finish them off So I've got a little kalaka there You're going to let that dry for 24 hours and then it's going to be ready to place on your altar Okay