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DIY Mini Sombrero

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Cinco de Mayo crafts

Lisa Everyday Crafts

  • Styrofoam or paper cup

  • Mini paper plate

  • 1″ wide strip of brown felt

  • 1/4″ wide strip of red felt

  • 1/4″ wide strip of orange felt

  • Acrylic paint in red and sunflower (tan/yellow)

  • Medium pom-poms in red, green, yellow, orange, white and brown

  • Paint brush

  • Hot glue gun

  1. Paint paper plate and Styrofoam cup with sunflower paint. Let dry and repeat.

  2. Paint the outer edge of the plate rim red. Let dry completely.

  3. Hot glue the Styrofoam cup to the center of the paper plate to form your hat.

  4. Glue the red and orange felt strips onto the larger brown strip and let it dry. When dry, glue the completed hat band around the cup.

  5. Glue the pom-poms to the red edge of the paper plate, alternating colors as you go .

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Book Review: Cinco de Murder (A Taste of Texas Mystery Book 3)

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Book Review: Cinco de Murder (A Taste of Texas Mystery Book 3)

Tex-Mex waitress and part-time reporter Josie Callahan serves up more Lone Star justice in this spicy mystery from the author of The Good, the Bad, and the Guacamole.It's fiesta time in Broken Boot, Texas, and tourists are pouring into town faster than free beer at a bull roping for the mouthwatering Cinco de Mayo festivities. Tex-Mex [...]

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Cinco De Mayo

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Cinco De Mayo

In the United States, the date is largely seen as a celebration of Mexican American culture stretching back to the 1800s in California. Typical festivities include parades, street food, block parties, mariachi competitions and baile folklórico, or folkloric ballet, with whirling dancers wearing shiny ribbons and braids and bright, ruffled dresses. The History: Cinco de [...]