Yesterday we watched some videos explaining how the 5 de Mayo celebration came to be and started working on our piñatas. Lots of wonderful designs, including rainbows, giant sweets, and pyramids.

Next week we will finish them and we will fill them with candy so we can use them for our end of year celebration.

See you on Tuesday and start thinking how you would like to cover them as you finish them. I will bring all kinds of crepe and tissue paper, as well as the decorations we used for our chicken hats.

29 de abril: Piñatas y Fiesta

Almost finished!

Today we got to "finish" the basic structure of our piñatas. Some students even started decorating them with tissue paper. For those of you who took them home, have fun finishing them! If you can bring them back next Monday for our fiesta great! If you don't get to finish them, don't worry, we will get a chance to finish them later in the session.

Preparations for our celebration are taking shape and we will have different families bringing ingredients for salsa and guacamole. I will bring ingredients for our tostadas,  churros con chocolate and sangría. Also we may have some raspados or granizados (snow cones).

We will have some green, white and red balloons (Mexican flag) papel picado (please watch embedded video below or click on this link) and lights to decorate our "cantina". If we have enough time we will hit some piñatas filled with candy, if not, some other time.

Enjoy the pictures below and see you next Monday. ¡Hasta el lunes!

Making the body of a snake...

... & covering it with "papel verde"

A  four point star (estrella)?

The Taj Mahal?

A sun (sol)?