Cinco de Mayo is right around the corner! To go along with your Cinco de Mayo unit, create this festive classroom decoration. When it comes to bulletin boards, kids love getting into the act, so you can turn this into a fun Cinco de Mayo craft to do with your students. This Cinco de Mayo bulletin board idea via Patties Classroom features colorful foam mariachi guitars and Cinco de Mayo facts written by students.
Read books about Cinco de Mayo and teach the children a few basic developmentally appropriate Spanish words related to Cinco de Mayo. For very young kids, this can simply be the words Cinco, Mayo, and Fiesta. Ask older students to write a few sentences about what they know about Cinco de Mayo. Glue each child’s narrative on an individual sheet of green, red, or yellow construction paper.
Next, kids can make mariachi guitars for the bulletin board. To make the guitars, you'll need:
- Craft foam in yellow, green, red, and brown
- Black marker
- White string
- White craft glue
The instructions for making the guitars and be found at Kaboose and they're a blast to create! If you have younger kids, you can assemble the guitasr for them and then have the kids decorate them with stickers or other embellishments.
Cover the bulletin board in colorful paper, then attach each child’s guitar and his Cinco de Mayo facts.