Every year the third-grade Spanish immersion students at my daughter’s school each get to make a plaster gauze cloth mask that they decorate and use for their Day of the Dead performance.
The mask-making experience ends up being a fun family affair. Parents and kids come to school on a weekend day and use the cafeteria/auditorium area to make the plaster gauze cloth masks.
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Each child gets their hair gets pulled back with a headband and their face is covered in a thick layer of petroleum jelly. Then they lay down on a cafeteria table and a parent or caregiver dips strips of plaster covered gauze (affiliate link, which means I’ll make a small commission if you purchase using this link) into warm water and places them on the child’s face to form a mask.
It takes about three layers of gauze to form a mask that will be firm enough to hold up. Once the three layers have dried, which happens surprisingly fast, the mask can be gently removed thanks to the thick layer of petroleum jelly covering the child’s face.
The masks are left to harden for at least a day before the kids decorate them. The best part is that later in the school year the kids get to take the masks home and have a beautiful reminder of what their sweet faces looked like when they were in third grade.
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That looks like fun. I can’t wait to see them decorated!