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Students watch teacher-selected YouTube videos about Cinco de Mayo history and traditions, then color, cut out, and assemble craft pieces (such as a sombrero and a piñata) onto popsicle sticks or construction paper, reading short bilingual (Spanish-English) fact call-outs about items like the sombrero and piñata along the way.
A printable crown/headband craft for Cinco de Mayo, intended to introduce young children to Mexican culture and traditions while practicing cutting/coloring skills.
Complete a Cinco de Mayo spreadsheet pixel-picture activity.
An arts-and-crafts activity for making Cinco de Mayo themed face masks, mustaches, and mouth props.
Students use a q-tip (or similar dot-painting tool) dipped in paint to fill in dot-marked outline shapes of Cinco de Mayo themed items, one item per page: taco, piñata, sombrero, cactus, maraca, serape, and chili pepper.
Students will celebrate Cinco de Mayo and enjoy Taco Tuesday by building tacos with this music game. Students will analyze music patterns and pick the correct notes to build their tacos.
Rotate through 32 themed task cards (individually or as a whole-class SCOOT game) writing multiplication equations from addition sentences or arrays, finding missing factors, solving for products, identifying square numbers, and completing number sequences, recording answers on a scaffolded or open-ended recording sheet.
An arts-and-crafts activity for making Cinco de Mayo themed sombrero and flower headbands.
Students read a list of 10 Cinco de Mayo themed words per worksheet (e.g., Bell, Flag, Hat, Mexico, Party, Music, Cake, Dance, Taco, Fun) and write them in alphabetical order in numbered blanks (1-10); an included answer-key version shows the words already sorted correctly.
Students play bingo using individual cards populated with Cinco de Mayo themed words/symbols (e.g., Mexico, Cactus, Cinco, Maracas, Festival, Piñata, Fiesta, Guitar, Sombrero), covering five squares in a row or diagonally, or covering the free space first, as called.
Students solve each addition or subtraction equation on its own slide, then copy that slide's puzzle-piece picture and paste it into the correspondingly numbered box on the answer slide to reveal a hidden picture.
Color Cinco de Mayo-themed pictures as a seasonal art activity.
Students watch/listen to embedded video and audio, read an informational passage of 'Fun Facts About Cinco de Mayo,' and complete a fill-in-the-blank comprehension activity ('What's Missing?') by writing, typing, or clicking the correct word-bank term (avocados, holiday, Mexican, resistance, etc.) to complete facts from the passage.
Students discuss prior knowledge, learn vocabulary, watch a video with subtitles, complete a group timeline and discussion, read a transcript and answer comprehension questions, complete worksheet activities (vocabulary matching, comprehension, timeline sequencing, map labeling, creative diary-entry writing).
Students match analog clock face task cards to the correct time by building the digital time using individual number chips (0-9), practicing telling time to the hour/half-hour and to the nearest five minutes with a.m./p.m.
A Cinco de Mayo themed clock activity for practicing telling time to the half hour.
Provide a Cinco de Mayo themed number/number-word card set for young children to practice recognizing numerals and their written word forms 0-20.
Read a themed word problem (e.g., 'I saw 1 taco and 1 burrito. How many items did I see in total?'), represent it on a number line, draw a picture, and write the addition or subtraction equation.
Solve printable Cinco de Mayo mazes in a seasonal puzzle activity.
A Cinco de Mayo themed clock activity for practicing telling time to the hour.
Read a short simple sentence (e.g., 'I see a red hat.', 'We dance to the music.', 'I see a big piñata.') and draw a picture matching the sentence; 4 activity pages ('Read and Draw 1' through 'Read and Draw 4'), each with 9 sentences (36 sentences total).
Free download Students complete a scene-based maze themed 'Cinco de Mayo Celebrations,' then draw a few target words from a word list (Fiesta, Parade, Music, Dance) into the completed scene, with an optional coloring step.
Cinco de Mayo Coloring Sheets: 27 Coloring Pages Set Join the Cinco de Mayo celebrations with this engaging collection of 27 coloring sheets. They include vibrant depictions of Mexican culture and partying. These sheets can be used as a time filler activity, morning warm-up, party entertainment, or a relaxing mindfulness exercise while…
Students trace or draw a path through each maze to connect a Cinco de Mayo-themed character or object (e.g., mariachi, taco, piñata, sombrero, dancer) to its matching item, working through a series of individual maze pages.