This beautiful craft is made from thread and two sticks.

Make skull shapes from salt dough (you can do this by hand or by using a skull shaped cookie cutter). Use brightly coloured paint to decorate your skull in the style of the Mexican Day of the Dead.

In Mexico decorated sugar skulls are used as part of the Day of the Dead festival. Make a skull shape from fondant icing or white chocolate moulding paste. Use icing pens and small sweets to decorate.

A rainstick made from a kitchen roll inner and paper clips. Fairly simple to make but requires a little patience.

Make a vampire bat finger puppet. Glued rather than stitched.

A simple Jaguar mask made from card.