Cinco de Mayo Mexican Fiesta Party Supplies

Cinco de Mayo is a celebration, and meant to be a party with friends that has great food and drink, and just good old fun.  So you can decorate your house with streamers, pinatas, and sombreros for your guests to wear, or you can turn it into a costume party with a prize for the best Mexican costume.

Decorate in bright colors for your Cinco de Mayo fiesta, and carry out the theme with inexpensive paper napkins, balloons, tablecloths, and centerpieces which are all available on Ebay for very cheap.  You can either have a pot luck with each person bringing a Mexican dish, or you can make it yourself.  One option that makes a variety of foods without much work is to have a fajita table where each person makes their own and adds whatever ingredients they want to their tortilla.  This avoids any allergy problems or vegetarian restrictions.

Party sombreros are fun to wear, and can be purchased very cheaply online from Ebay or you can spend some money and get a real sombrero.  Party sombreros are usually made from straw, and very colorful.  One option is to buy plain sombreros, and have a sombrero decorating event at your Cinco de Mayo party.  Depending how much Dos Equis has been passed around, this could prove to be very funny.

Or you could have your guests decorate their sombrero in advance of the party for a contest.  You could give out a prize for the person who brings the best decorated sombrero.  Maybe the prize could be a gag gift like a toy horse or burro, or a big black mustache to wear under the sombrero.

Colorful Cinco de Mayo balloons make a great addition to any Cinco de Mayo party whether it is for adults or kids, and there is a very nice selection on Ebay that you can have blown up with helium at your neighborhood gift shop.

Of course, it really isn't a Cinco de Mayo party without at least one pinata.  Pinatas are traditionally filled with candy, and hung from the ceiling.  Guests are then blindfolded one at a time, spun around, and handed a stick to hit the pinata.  They are given just one or two tries, then the process is started again with the next person.  The goal is to break the pinata and release the candy for the children to enjoy.

Pinatas are made out of paper mache, and decorated.  Many pinatas are in the shape of animals, but they can be made of just about any design as long as they are hollow inside.  You can either make a pinata ahead of time, or buy one online.

If you and your family would like to learn more about Cinco de Mayo, there are some wonderful books on Amazon listed below, and more if you click through to Amazon both for children and adults.