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It seems like ages ago that we celebrated our honeymoon in Mexico, picked endless shells, didn’t get seasick, hiked to a waterfall, pet a baby tiger (on a trainer’s leash)…

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My Top Booklists

Mexico Books and Fun

The following are my favorite books for different age groups and categories.

Our favorite folk tale was The Princess and the Warrior and our favorite holiday book was Nine Days to Christmas.

Making Mexican Food with Kids (more recipes and pictures in Recipes by Country)

We closed out two weeks of studying Mexico with a weekend of eating Mexican food and breaking pinatas. My favorite Mexican shredded beef recipe is the Instant Pot Mexican Shredded Beef. The kids did a great job with homemade flour tortillas to wrap everything in. The littles helped make the Mexican Hot Chocolate. I let the kids each have one cup of hot chocolate before I added cayenne. They each tried a sip with cayenne and then turned down the second serving. That’s one way to limit the hot chocolate! (There are more recipe links and pictures in Recipes by Country: Mexico.)

Here are a few other fun food ideas from Compassion International: Make a popsicle that matches the color of the Mexican flag, Spinach-Mushroom Quesadillas and Wild Mushroom Soup.

Folk Music and Dance

Art Project

We made piñatas, following a video tutorial. I don’t like to pop balloons, so we folded big origami cubes using large sheets of packing paper. We paper-machied those and decorated with fringed streamers (so much easier than cutting up bits of tissue paper!)

We also did some Huichol-style Folk Art with yarn. Tip: start with a SMALL design. Only one of my children was able to finish a big easter egg on an 8×11 sheet of paper, but only because I helped a lot!

Learning to blend with watercolors is one of our nature journaling goals. We practiced while following this Monarch Butterfly Five Minute Mini Watercolor Paint Tutorial with the free printable of a monarch sketch from Let’s Make Art.

Wycliffe.org has an easy Mexican Paper Star craft that involves as little as printing the template, coloring, and folding.

First layer of the piñata with flour glue
It’s messy
Breaking a coronavirus piñata
Viva Mexico!
Yarn Art: you need Elmer’s glue and Yarn
Just use the glue straight from the bottle. Diluting the glue did not go well for us.
Nice swirl!
Following along with a Monarch Butterfly watercolor tutorial

Games

We love board games and have a ton of random ones, but don’t feel like you have to go out and buy a game. I’m just listing what we already own:

  • “Packesel,” where you take turns balancing thin sticks on a donkey’s back
Packesel game, actually quite tricky for kids

Movie!

We watched the Disney movie “Coco,” which I thought was fantastic. There was so much detail about the Mexican celebration of Dia de los Muertos packed into an imaginative movie. Before you watch the movie, I highly recommend explaining Dia de los Muertos to the kids with one of the books (or, in our case, we had the book read to us on YouTube).

Geography YouTube Videos

Chichén Itzá out of duplos
Summary of Mexico

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