EYECATCHING Mexican sugar skulls created by high school students are on display in a popular city centre cocktail bar and restaurant.

Year eight students from Christopher Whitehead Language College and Sixth Form, Bromwich Road, Worcester, were set the challenge to create the colourful calaveras for a homework project.

And with its South American menu and brightly decorated restaurant, Bodega on Foregate Street, Worcester, is the perfect home for over twenty of the children's designs.

The exhibition has caught the eye of diners and the children have been down individually to visit their sugar skulls in their new home.

Tonia Jones, head of art at the school, said the children were really excited at the prospect of their artwork being displayed in public.

She said: "We had been looking at the Day of the Dead festival and the craft and artwork in class and they had four weeks to create the sugar skulls at home.

"It was a three dimensional project and they were given a recipe to take home to make the skulls out of salt dough and then they decided on the designs.

"Some have hand painted the skulls, added sequins and some even created flowers to decorate them with.

"They are all really beautiful."

It was a tough job for the teachers to whittle down the 200 entries to around twenty which now exhibited in the restaurant.

Mrs Jones came up with the idea to link up with Bodega after she enjoyed a birthday meal at the restaurant.

"They are very, very proud and so excited about having their work on display in the restaurant.

"It is lovely to be able to display their work in the local community and to have a wider audience."

Pupils in another year group had previously worked alongside Smile dentists in St John's to create a calendar which went on sale in aid of St Richard's Hospice.

Mrs Jones said they aimed to teach children the wide range of jobs in art and design and that it was all around them.