well the sugar skull is one of many
offering seen on the ofrendas and we're
making those today and I'm super excited
got a new Cortes owner Aviva Viet
Acharya is here to demonstrate welcome
to the show thank you for having me hey
neighbor can we borrow some sugar
schools that's right these are really
exciting and they're so popular every
year this year we're actually having a
workshop more about that let me get
fiona decorating up these are really
important during Dia those what those
because people make things out of sugar
because when you put them on the altar
out on the elements when it rains it
will kind of melt away and so they're
very eco-friendly as well and then I'll
let you decorate these we've got some
glitter glue pens some jewels some
little puffs and it's really traditional
to write the name of a loved one on top
of somebody's mouth so you'll see that a
lot okay and then and I love the fact
that just before we get started on
making them here that you have like the
different colors as well so you can add
in food coloring when you're making this
also and whatever color you want if you
have a favorite you know theme or colors
I you know really go with your altar you
can go ahead and alter that I love that
alternate altar for your altar now how
do you make this at home I know you have
a very straightforward recipe right very
easy and it's the ratio is one to one to
one so we're gonna do actually two cups
of sugar 2 cups of sugar will do that
that wasn't really there we go well a
little bit more on the second one there
so simple to do and it's one of those
things you can do at home with kids keep
them busy and it's the day after
Halloween - you don't mean - something
else so it's something to do you got to
keep the party going and this is the
table that's really what's gonna harden
it I like I'm putting like a little
extra in there the community in San
Antonio we got a budget for that and
then two of these tablespoons of water
there you go one and perfect and then
you're just gonna mix that up with your
hands okay nice like wet sand is this
something that you did growing up is
this something like that has been
portal audition you know with our family
in makiato we have three altars year
round and we kind of grew up with that
significance and knowing you know what
this holiday is about it's not something
scary it's not Halloween it's a
celebration of life and thing and people
who've passed on and so it's always been
kind of fun and colorful and exciting to
do yeah that looks nice it's looking
pretty good right how you don't over
there Fionna oh there's a giant
celebration here in my where right now
this year we're teaming up with the city
of San Antonio the Central Library and
number other constituents and we're
having a children's kind of themed day
tomorrow
so from 5:30 to 8 9 we'll be having
workshops so we've got our community
altar outside you'll see a little bit of
that you can go ahead and pack that mold
I love it and this is something that you
can also get it as well right if they
work you have a workshop coming up right
yeah workshop coming up it's tomorrow
the first 45 participants will be able
to get in make their own sugar skull
decorate it take it home oh cool yeah
we've also got the Central Library
coming to do some workshops a little
more and we've got games and we're
screening the movie Coco and child yes
and so we've got plenty of stuff and
programming find it on Facebook on our
social media handles and then they'll
come out and we'll link these old okay
know perfectly and so you don't you dry
about six to eight hours obviously if it
rains outside and it's humid it'll might
take overnight and then the next day you
can decorate have fun yeah we'll get
decorating here this is fantastic that
was so quick it easy to do it was so
easy it's not really much of a mess
either which is nice but I love what you
got going on over there that's pretty
right there we go girl that's royalty
that looks great
all right we'll put the full screen up
here and dia de los muertos event is
happening here at Market Square tomorrow
from 5:00 to 10:00 p.m. there will be
music sugar school classes at Viva via
and more and for more information of
course you can visit familia cortez comm
for more information how fun was that to
decorate release