Here’s one of those posts featuring a super fun, awesome project with a disastrous end…
After our sugar skulls dried fully, two good friends decorated their bride and groom skeletons with feathers, sequins, tissue paper confetti, and glitter glue.
Look at those skeletons buried under layers of decorations! Oh, how their skeletons made me smile.
(Above, the skeleton that I decorated. Definitely more boring subdued than the girls’ projects.)
After we finished decorating, we left the sugar skulls to dry on the windowsill of an open window. When we returned home a few hours later we found ants swarming (reminiscent of our Gingerbread House Ant Invasion!). Upon closer inspection we realized the ants were eating our skeletons! Oh, the horror!
(And, no, I don’t have a picture of the carnage; I was too busy rushing the project out of the house and into the trash bin!)
I’m not sure what we’ll do differently next year besides the obvious suggestion, keep the window closed. ;) Is there something non-toxic we could spray on the skulls to seal them immediately? Maybe after they’ve dried but before we decorate them? Would Mod Podge keep ants away?
What do you think we should do differently next time?
