Sugar Skull Flameless Votives

by pizzidave in Living > Decorating

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Sugar Skull Flameless Votives

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This is a quick, fun and easy project that is great for Halloween and year round. This is the remix of Sugar Skull String Lights !

Materials

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Skull shaped candy bowls - Target dollar section and also at Dollar tree.

Permanent markers in as many colors as you have!

LED tea lights.

Drawing on Your Skulls.

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Start by Googleing sugar skulls. This will give you many designs to use as inspiration. Above there is a screen capture of some of the results.

Using a dark color marker to fill the eyes, nose and mouth of the skull. Then start your designs on the skull going from lighter to darker colors. Use a black marker to outline your designs. You can make all the skulls in the design and do variations on the colors. I chose to do six different styles.

Placing the LED Tealight

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Just turn on the the LED tealight and pop it into top of skull. That’s it!

For more variety you can use steady, flickering or color changing tealights.