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- Mexican Party Game Ideas -
Steal The Sombrero:
- Create small laminated construction paper sombreros - one for each party guest. Use velcro on the backs of each sombrero and each guest for adhesion.
- Velcro a sombrero to each guests back.
- The game begins when the children attempt to take the sombrero off of each others backs without losing her own sombrero.
- This game is played to music. While the music is playing the children try to take and protect sombreros.
- When the music stops, any child without a sombrero is out.
- The rounds continue and the last two children with sombreros win!
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Jumping Bean:
- Jumping Bean start when you begin playing really lively mariachi music.
- The children start jumping around like little jumping beans.
- When the music stops, the children must be perfectly still.
- Any child caught moving, flinching, twitching or otherwise, is out.
- The rounds continue until there is only one successful jumping bean remaining.
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Ya Me Voy!:
- "Ya me voy!" is translated, "Here I come!". This is the Spanish equivalent of Hide and Go seek.
- To begin select a child to be, "It".
- The other children will attempt to hide in the room or backyard, while the "It" is counting in Spanish from 1 to 10.
- When the counting is done, the "It" yells, "Ya me voy!" and then tries to find all of the children and tag them before they run safely to base.
- The first child tagged is the new "It" and hiding and the counting in Spanish begins again.
- This game is great for releasing massive amounts of energy and working up good appetites for all of your wonderful food later.
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Clue:
- Divide into two teams.
- Place 20 Spanish words on index cards into a hat. Examples are: burrito, poncho, fiesta, etc.
- One team will start off by drawing an index card out of the hat.
- This team will begin to describe their word with a series of clues. Each team member has to give a clue until the word is guessed.
- The team will get a point for each clue that they give for which the opposing team does not answer correctly. For example, if the opposing team is given 5 clues to guess a word correctly, the team giving the clues gets 5 points.
- Keep track of the points as clues are given.
- The team with the most points at the end of the game wins.
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Mexican Hat Dance:
- Have the children form a large circle holding hands.
- Turn on your very fun mariachi music.
- The children begin shuffling and hopping while moving clockwise around the circle... shuffle-hop hop-shuffle-hop hop. Have them keep pace with the music.
- You will call childrens' names one by one.
- When a child's name is called she will come to the center of the circle and do a dance.
- You will call each child's name in turn.
- This activity gives your party goers a fabulous opportunity to enjoy Spanish music!
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