Don't laugh, but it just occurred to me today that cinco means five, so Cinco de Mayo means Fifth of May.
I really have never thought much about the holiday. Brian likes it because it gives him an excuse to go out and eat Mexican at lunch, and he loves Mexican food. He also works for a very cool company that loves to celebrate about as much as I do. His top boss is taking, I think, the entire office out for a Mexican lunch (and I don't even know if anyone in the office is of Mexican descent.)
Anyway. Here's some stuff for a last minute celebration of Cinco de Mayo:
- First read the Wikipedia explanation of this holiday so that we can all be smart together and actually know why this is a holiday. Or have your kids do this informative reading and comprehension activity.
- Choose a meal plan from Kraft foods, make these taco nachos or Mexican pizza, get some take-out, make tacos, or buy some seven layer dip at Walmart.
- If you don't have everything you need, why not visit a local Mexican grocery?
- Read Meet Josefina or some other book about Americans with a Mexican heritage. Or just read a book or two about Mexico. I like this one. And Learning Pages has one for free this month. (Not a member? It's free and their stuff is really cool.)
- Make this Mexican flag pinata
- Do the Mexican Hat Dance; we have it on a Music for Little Mozart's CD
- How 'bout some printables? Learning pages has this fun picture with questions to answer. Apples 4 the Teacher has lots of coloring pages. Family Fun has cute streamers .
- And finally, crafts. DTLK has a printable Hot Pepper craft. Kinderart tells you how to make a paper bag poncho.
graphic by Celeste’s Holiday Graphic Collection
3 comments:
Here in our house we celebrate Liberation Day because on May 5, 1945 Denmark was liberated from Germany, :-) So we got little Danish flags all over the place.
I'm begging for a post on that. That would be really fun to celebrate in a year or two when my kids have studied World War II a little more. It could really make history come to life.
Thanks for sharing this. I needed to get more educated on this. :)
Mmm, mexican food is my fav!
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