Wood crafts include small objects such as toys (tops, yoyos, puppets, etc.) along with furniture, mostly reproductions of colonial era pieces. Other objects include guitars, masks and replicas of the Tizoc Stone, often covered in lacquer or crystal pieces. Papel picado (lit. poked paper) is the cutting of thin paper generally with a chisel or similar instrument to create repeating banner-like decorative items for festivals and parties. Originally, these were made with amate or maguey paper due to its pre Hispanic origin, but eventually crepe paper began to be used, and sometimes this is replaced by thin sheets of plastic.
