- A pot of clean water
- Water-based face paint in white, grey and black
- Face painting sponges
- 1 medium paintbrush
- 1 thin paintbrush
- A grown up
- A scary skull needs a white base. Use a face paint sponge and spread white paint evenly over your face. Don’t worry about getting it perfectly around the eyes, as these will be filled in later. With the same sponge, smudge some grey paint around your temples and underneath cheekbones.
- With a medium brush, paint black circles around your eyes. Remember, you want these to look like the eye socket holes in the skull, so the darker they are the better. Close your eyes for this part to avoid getting any face paint in your eyes. Now paint a thin black triangle shape on each side of your nose.
- Using a thin brush, paint an upside down ‘L’ shape on either side of your mouth. Then paint the outline of all the teeth over your lips, so that when you close you mouth you can see all the skull’s teeth!
- Finally, still using your thin brush, paint some thin cracks down your face to make the skull look really old and scary.You could even drape some fake cobwebs over your clothes and in your hair to make you look like a really ancient skeleton!