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Día de los Muertos Decorations MOC Instructions

I posted a video the other day showing off my calaveras (“sugar skulls”) and papeles picados decorations that I built for the Día de Muertos collaboration BayLUG did in 2022. And as promised in that video, here are instructions for building them.

Here’s the video:

And here are the instructions for the skulls (both Halloween and Day of the Dead versions, both male and female versions):

Click photo to view on Flickr ↗Album (15 photos) on Flickr ↗
female-halloween-skull-instr-p1 female-halloween-skull-instr-p2 female-halloween-skull-instr-p3 female-sugar-skull-instr-p1
female-sugar-skull-instr-p2 female-sugar-skull-instr-p3 female-sugar-skull-instr-p4 male-halloween-skull-instr-p1
male-halloween-skull-instr-p2 male-halloween-skull-instr-p3 male-sugar-skull-instr-p1 male-sugar-skull-instr-p2
female-halloween-skull-instr-p1female-halloween-skull-instr-p2female-halloween-skull-instr-p3female-sugar-skull-instr-p1female-sugar-skull-instr-p2female-sugar-skull-instr-p3female-sugar-skull-instr-p4male-halloween-skull-instr-p1male-halloween-skull-instr-p2male-halloween-skull-instr-p3male-sugar-skull-instr-p1male-sugar-skull-instr-p2

And here are the instructions for the papeles picados (all 3 versions: yellow minifig head, orange checkerboard pattern, and red skull):

Click photo to view on Flickr ↗Album on Flickr ↗
papel-picado-skull-instr-p3 papel-picado-skull-instr-p2 papel-picado-skull-instr-p1 papel-picado-head-instr-p4
papel-picado-head-instr-p3 papel-picado-head-instr-p2 papel-picado-head-instr-p1 papel-picado-basic-instr-p4
papel-picado-basic-instr-p3 papel-picado-basic-instr-p2 papel-picado-basic-instr-p1
papel-picado-skull-instr-p3papel-picado-skull-instr-p2papel-picado-skull-instr-p1papel-picado-head-instr-p4papel-picado-head-instr-p3papel-picado-head-instr-p2papel-picado-head-instr-p1papel-picado-basic-instr-p4papel-picado-basic-instr-p3papel-picado-basic-instr-p2papel-picado-basic-instr-p1

If you build your own skulls or papeles picados, I’d love to see them! Post a comment here or on the video with a link.

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