I love to celebrate different holidays from around the world. It gives me the opportunity to teach the kids about other cultures and to make it exciting and fun for them. With May just a couple of days away we headed to the library for a few books on Cinco De Mayo.
Marco's Cinco De Mayo was a great one for G to understand and Em to enjoy as well.
After we talked a bit about the holiday we made a few fun crafts.
This is a paper bag sombrero. We made it by rolling a grocery paper bag
down until it formed a nice hat shape. Next, we used paint and pom-poms to give it the vibrant colorful look of a real sombrero. Check out more details on my
bonnet post.
Em was more into our sombrero drawing art. She sketched a simple sombrero with a black marker and filled it in with oil pastels followed by paint. Once it was dry she added sequins to her creation.
We cut our colorful hat drawings out and used a glue stick to place them on a black back-drop.
This is one I would like to do with Em's class and I can not wait to see all of the different colors and patterns the kids come up with. Just lovely.
Finally, we definitely need a set of maracas for Cinco De Mayo. This is a pretty traditional way to craft maracas in the "art mom blogging world." Just a plastic egg (so happy to reuse those!) filled with rice and placed between two plastic spoons and secured with masking tape. The kids decorated them with permanent markers.
Happy Cinco De Mayo!
Great to see folks celebrating a Mexican-American holiday that is all too often forgotten; great to share with kids and think about the contributions Mexican-Americans have made to the U.S., our food, really reveling in what our culture brings to the table in the U.S. I think it is a great day to do that.
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