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Print Your Own Fiesta Invitations
or Try creating a cactus, chili pepper or Margarita glass stencil. Trace stencil onto heavier weight colored paper or foam craft. Use permanent marker to write party details.
Click to enlarge photo. Craft a Tissue Flower. Tie a small invite tag to it. |
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New Fiesta Pepper Paper Goods
Use one of our colorful table patterns for your fiesta. Use our Chili Pepper Bracelets as napkin ring holders.
Add any of these as a table centerpiece:
Use a child size sombrero to serve chips in, just line with alternating red and green napkins.
Use terra cotta pots to serve chips, line with a Fiesta or Mexican Flag bandana or plastic pot liner.
Serve up snacks and food in
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Fiesta trays or bowls. Serve up some margaritas, tequila, sangria in LED, Glow or fun themed drink ware. |
The
Fiesta Decorating Kit
For your entryway or main party room, hang Fiesta Tinsel Garland or Fiesta Lanterns Garland.
Add colorful balloons to your party room. Use hand painted maracas as balloon weights or use a sombrero balloon weight. Create a Southwestern outdoor look using Desert scene setters. Create an indoor scene with our stucco, mariachi band, fiesta door windows and signs.
For a tropical look, add one of these:
Hang some
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Let guest know where the parties at with a Fiesta Photo Yard Sign.
Hang pictures of Mexico. Ask you local travel agent for some free brochures on Mexico, cut out pictures and hang around the room.
As the host or hostess don't forget your Mexican Poncho.
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You will need two oven mitts and 2 peppers (use green or red peppers). Set up a starting line and a turnaround line. Divide guest into two teams. Each team member must wear the oven mitt and carry (open handed, no gripping with the thumb) the hot pepper to the turnaround line, turn around, and head back to the starting line. If it falls off they have to start over. Once back they pass it onto the next player. The first team to have all team members carry the pepper successfully up and back wins!
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Chip Toss You'll need a sombrero and some tortilla chips. Each guest gets one tortilla to toss into the sombrero. Set up a line to toss from and a point to set the sombrero on. You could have playoff rounds to get one winner or have enough prizes for all the winners. Cactus Cooler/game
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Jumping Bean - Like Freeze Dancing, play Mexican/Latino music and tell the kids to jump like jumping beans. Stop the music, the kids must freeze. If they move or fall, they are out. Keep going until there's a winner or they get tired of jumping. Guess How Many Jumping Beans? - Use jelly beans and put in a decorative jar. Have a small paper for guest to write down their guess. Winner gets jar of jumping beans. Pass the Hat or Pass the Pepper - Play like "Hot Potato". Pin the Flower on the Cactus. Draw out a large cactus on green poster boards or use a cactus wall decor (Sorry, not available in our store). Make an outline for a flower on the tip of one branch. Cut out colorful paper flowers with the same design. Number them or write each child's name on a flower. Play the game like Pin the tail on the donkey. Use our piñata mask if you want to blindfold the player. Use some of my Dora the Explorer or Diego party ideas for entertaining the kids. |
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Put red or yellow chili peppers in a jar and let adults guess how many are in the jar? Winner wins the jar and another fun fiesta prize! |
Give each brave guest a small bowl of hot chili peppers. The first to finish their bowl wins! You would think to have large glasses of water for contestants, but it's better to have milk, rice or bread which which absorb the capsaicin. Learn more about peppers under Food Ideas.
Authentic Mexican Chile Peppers at MexGrocer.com
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Salsa Tasting Contest Spread out different salsas and chips for guest to taste. Or ask guest to bring Homemade Salsa's for a taste testing contest. |
Teach your guest the Mexican Hat Dance or the Macarena staring Mr. Macaroni! |
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"Ojo de Dios", God's Eye. To make follow these instructions: Project1 or Project2. |
Grab the camera and photograph your guest for this fun party favor! |
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For kids, take a Mexican style bandana, fill with Mexican candy and favors. Then pull up bandana around favors, secure with a tiny rubber band. Add curling ribbon.
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All the Best Mariachi CD |
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Ten Rounds CD -Tracy Byrd - Ten Rounds with Jose Cuervo
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Main Dishes - Beef or Chicken Tacos Burritos Fajitas Cheese Quesadillas Eggs & Chorizo Full Roasted Pig Empanadas or Pastelillos (Puerto Rican version).
Side Dishes - Guacamole Dip Salsa Chips Spanish Rice Refried Beans
Adult Drinks - Frozen or "On the Rocks" Margaritas Piña Coladas
Kids Drinks - Kiddie Cocktails Fruit Smoothies Fruit Drinks
Desserts - Authentic Mexican desserts at MexGrocer.com Tres Leche Cake (Milk Cake - uses three milks)
Easy-to-prepare gourmet foods for your Cinco de Mayo Celebration!
Serve up a Tempting Taco cheese ball, flavorful southwest fiesta dip, top off your enchiladas with a RAZZY LIME SALSA and much more! Don't forget to serve up some delicious beverages like SAMBA SANGRÍA SLUSH™ or POMEGRANATE BLUEBERRY MARGARITA MIX - Click here to view the full line of gourmet foods, place an order and complete your fiesta party! (TS Consultant - Loreen Venello #0075233)
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