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Cinco De Mayo Art
Contact_FullName: Lisa Contact_Email: jlthomp@thegateway.net date:: 03/02/03 Area: cinco de mayo Idea: I give the kids large noodles to paint with really bright and fun colors. after they dry they have a pretty festive necklace! Contact_FullName: Lisa Contact_Email: jlthomp@thegateway.net date:: 03/02/03 Area: cinco de mayo-art Idea: I have cut a poster board into 4 rectangles/squares, and then let the kids paint them all sorts of colors. Then they glue a shapes made out of scrap material and then glue yarn little strings on each end. It looks like a little Mexican blanket. Contact_FullName: Lisa Contact_Email: jlthomp@thegateway.net date:: 03/02/03 Area: cinco de mayo-art or misc Idea: I cut out large sombrero shapes and let the kids decorate with confetti, glitter, colored glue, sequence, they are really festive and the kids really like them. I staple a long piece of construction paper to them to fit around child's head and we where them at our cinco de mayo celebration. I let the kids break a piñata. We play games like "hot pepper" instead of "hot potato". I decorate paper towel rolls really bright and festive and make bean bags with festive material and let the children throw and knock them over. In the past we have even made festive instruments and had a little parade! They have a blast! Contact_FullName: Lisa Contact_Email: jlthomp@thegateway.net date:: 03/02/03 Area: cinco de mayo-art Idea: I like to make hot pepper wreaths. I cut out red, green and yellow construction paper peppers and let the kids glue to paper plate with center cut out. We add a raffia bow on top, best look yet! Contact_FullName: LIsa Contact_Email: jlthomp@thegateway.net date:: 03/02/03 Area: cinco de mayo- art Idea: Our class always makes construction paper tacos. I cut out paper shapes like tomatoes pieces, cheese, lettuce, brown for meat. I then let them glue it to a circle that I cut out of a manila file folder, the kids fold it over and it's all created! Really a lot of fun and the kids think it's great! I even extend it to the kids helping make their own tacos at lunch! Contact_FullName: Lisa Contact_Email: jlthomp@thegateway.net date:: 03/02/03 Area: cinco de mayo-art Idea: I cut out maroca shapes and let the children decorate with glitter, confetti, colored glue. They are real pretty and the kids love them! Contact_FullName: Lisa Contact_Email: jlthomp@thegateway.net date:: 03/02/03 Area: Cinco De Mayo-art Idea: We always paint 2 squares of construction paper, one red and one green. We then glus them to a piece of white construction paper to make it look like the Mexican flag. I then let them color a copied symbol that is on the flag and they glue to the flag. Looks really nice along with all the other decorations for this holiday. Contact_FullName: Darcy Contact_Email: cassiaflower33@hotmail.com date:: 10/16/02 Area: Cinco De Mayo Art Idea: Flower Using several colored squares of tissue paper, fan fold them (accordion style). Twisty tie or pipe cleaner the center. Turn the entire project 1/4 turn so one of the folded sides is facing you. Pull each end of the tissue paper gently up so they're all in the middle. Shape each paper as you go. It looks like a pretty flower. Options: We got so good, we left some paper down like a lily, or we cut the edges so they were different. We added more pipe cleaner for a stem and leaves. We used the same idea with white tissue paper to make butterflies with antennae and colored them with markers. Contact_FullName: Sara Contact_Email: sturner25@houston.rr.com date:: 05/02/02 Area: Cinco de Mayo -Art Idea: For Cinco de Mayo we made maracas with paper mache. We stuffed a water balloon with 5 small beans, blew it up, then taped it to the top of a Popsicle stick. Next, we mixed Elmer's glue with flour and water until the paste is runny. Next we ripped newspaper into short, thin strips. We dipped the newspaper into the paste and spread it on the balloon until it was covered. Make sure to reinforce the area well where the balloon and Popsicle stick meet. We let them dry and painted them with water colors. The children can then use their maracas while singing Cinco de Mayo songs. Contact_FullName: jamie Contact_Email: eamon@sendit.nodak.edu date:: 10/20/01 Area: Art Idea: we celebrate a week of Cinco de Mayo in my kindergarten classroom. We make paper piñatas for each child to have and fill with candy at the end of the week. We make sombreros and serapes. We use paper towels..6 sheets, masking tape the seams, let children paint and pin on the day of the fiesta.
Date: 3-11-00Make 4 colored peppers. yellow, green, red, and orange. punch holes in these peppers and have children lace them onto string. They can be hung in the center or at home outside the door. They hang these peppers outside their doors in Mexico. (real ones)
Date: 11-7-98Cinco De Mayo is the perfect time to make a piñata. In the past, I have done a simple paper lunch bag, stuffed with paper, and glue crepe paper or tissue onto it for whatever animal or figure you would be creating. We did a bird, and just attached the head and beak made of construction paper. Then attach streamers for decoration, and don't forget a string so it can hang.
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