Mexican home party: costumes, script, menu

2024 Author: Priscilla Miln | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 00:21

Do you want to brighten your gray days with bright colors, incendiary music and fun games? Invite your friends over and throw a Mexican party at home. It can be timed to any date. Temperamental seniors with guitars, exotic decorations, flamenco and tequila will make the holiday unforgettable.

Mexican party paraphernalia

Let's start preparations by creating the necessary atmosphere. Great if you have maracas, a guitar, a drum, wicker furniture and utensils, colored striped tracks. Spread bright pillows around the room, hang balloons and ribbons in red, white and green. It is in them that the Mexican flag is painted. Place cacti everywhere, real or inflatable. As a last resort, draw them on paper. You can decorate the room with compositions of chili peppers, corn cobs, fruits.

Many Mexican party accessories are made from plain cardboard. Draw bright flowers, Aztec patterns on it. On the walls you can hang pictures of the streets of Mexico City, shots from the TV series "Just Maria","Wild Rose", images of attacking bulls. Decorate windows with shimmering garlands. To make a sombrero, paint the mayonnaise buckets in bright colors, make the brim of the hat out of cardboard and glue it to a homemade crown.

Table setting

Traditional white tablecloth is not suitable for a Mexican party. Attributes should be bright. Great if you find a striped tablecloth, colored crockery and cutlery. They may be disposable. Lay out colorful napkins, fastening them with colored cardboard rings. Light the candles.

Use your printer to print small Mexican flags. Put them on skewers and decorate all spicy dishes so that guests are warned in advance of the dangers that warn them. As a decoration, you can use chili peppers, a cactus in a paper sombrero.

Mexican Party Menu

Even a novice hostess can handle the preparation of a festive dinner. The easiest option: fried meat, seasoned with pepper, and beans for garnish. Cornmeal tortillas are also a must. In the store, buy Nachos chips, serve them with Guacamole and Salsa sauces. For dessert, you can offer guests fruits, a salad of them, ice cream.

Recipes for traditional Mexican dishes are below:

• Fajitas. To prepare the marinade, combine 50 gr. soy sauce, 1 tbsp. l. ketchup or tomato paste, 2 cloves of crushed garlic, 1 tbsp. l. apple cider vinegara little s alt, a teaspoon of sugar. Add spices, focusing on your own taste: pepper, paprika, ginger, coriander, nutmeg. The marinade should be sweet and sour. Cut the chicken fillet into pieces, fry for 5 minutes. Pour in the marinade, simmer with onions, bell peppers and canned corn.
• Burrito. Fry minced meat with onions, garlic, herbs, put spices at your discretion. When ready, add the canned beans and simmer for a couple of minutes. Grease tartillas with sour cream and wrap the stuffing in them.
• Quesadilla with cheese and vegetables. Put the tartilla in a heated pan, grease one half of the tortilla with chili sauce. Top with small pieces of mozzarella and cheddar cheese, chopped tomatoes, onions, bell peppers, spinach. Fold the tarrilla in half and turn over after 3 minutes. When the cheese is melted, the treat is ready.

Drinks

It is customary to drink tequila at a Mexican party. The Margarita cocktail is also a traditional drink. To prepare it, mix 100 ml of tequila with the same amount of lime juice, pour in 50 gr. orange liqueur (eg Cointreau) If using a shaker, use ice.

He althy lifestyle enthusiasts will love grape juice sangria. Put pieces of fruits and berries in a jug: orange, banana, lemon, strawberry, lime, peach, apple. You can add vanilla, cinnamon stick. Pour all this with juice and put it in the refrigerator for a couple of hours.

Buy some lemonade for the kids. If the holiday fell on the cold season, you can cook hot cocoa.

Outfits

Invite your guests to dress up for a Mexican party. Costumes are easy to make from scrap materials. For men, jeans and an old striped T-shirt, the bottom of which is cut in the form of a fringe, are enough. Another option is a cowboy outfit. It requires a shirt, vest, neckerchief and a holster with a toy gun. At the entrance to the house, sultry machos can be given homemade sambrero and fake mustaches on double-sided tape.

The best outfit for ladies is a dress with layered skirts in black and red. For these purposes, a gypsy costume is perfect. But in principle, you can get by with any bright dress, any short skirt and white blouse. As decorations, choose artificial flowers that are inserted into the hair or used as a brooch. They can be given to beauties at the entrance. Neckerchiefs, bright jewelry, rhinestones, floral and folk ornaments will be appropriate.

Meet the guests

The doors are opened by the hospitable Don Pedro and his wife Anita-Rosita. To sit at the festive table, each person who enters must undergo an initiation. The scenario of a Mexican party involves the transformation of all those present into seniors and senoritas, for this you need to dress up in a sombrero and drink a glass of tequila. In case of refusal of alcohol, the guest is given a choice of a pod of pepper or a slice of lemon, which must be eaten with a joyful smile on his face.

Invite the children to pronounce the Spanish tongue twister: Mi mama´ me mima mucho (My mother spoils me a lot). When the test is passed, the new Mexican receives a badge with his new name: Pedro, Juan, Diego, Marianna, Isabelle, and others. Now you can only address each other in this way. The offender must eat a slice of lime or lemon.

Quiz "Is it true?"

Mexican-style party can start with intellectual fun. Invite guests to guess which of the statements are true:

• In Mexico, all houses and streets are called by numbers: street one, house one, street three, house six, etc. (True).
• Here is the largest sandy desert on the planet. (No, in Africa - the Sahara Desert).
• It was in Mexico that the world's first chocolate was made. (True).
• Locals love to ride tricycles, which have two wheels in the front instead of the back. (Yes).
• In one of the circuses in Mexico City, two crocodiles were taught to dance to Latin American music. (No).
• Mexico had a president who ruled the country for only 15 minutes. (Yes).
• This is where the blue rose was first bred. (No, such plants do not exist.)
• In Mexico, even sweets are sprinkled with pepper. (Yes).
• This country has the smallest volcano, the height of which is only 13 meters. (Yes).
• Some Mexicans love fried grasshoppers. (Yes).
• The main god of the Aztecs and Mayans was half human and half iguana. (No, a jaguar).
• If a bullfighter gets scared during a bullfight and tries to escape from the arena, he can be arrested. (Yes).

Word games

The following entertainments can be held at the table:

1. "Favorite word". In a sombrero, fold pieces of paper with the words: "cactus", "don Carlos", "beans", "salsa", "pepper", "sand", "poncho", "rancho". The player pulls out a piece of paper with their eyes closed. The rest ask him any questions. He must answer, be sure to use the word pulled out. For example: "How old are you?" - "I danced salsa for so long I forgot my age."
2. "Crocodile". The participant pulls out a piece of paper with a word written on it (cactus, iguana, pyramid, monkey, cowboy, sun, Indian, eagle, jaguar, sombrero, maracas, etc.) Without making a sound, one must depict this with gestures. In response to questions, you are allowed to wave your head. The rest guess the word.

Funny contests

To make your Mexican party a success, offer guests fun activities from the following list:

1. "Cunning cactus". Participants are given a cucumber and a lot of toothpicks to stick into the vegetable. The leader keeps time. After its expiration, the players are invited to take out the toothpicks with the help of their teeth, the stopwatch is turned on. Who is faster?
2. "Hit the target." Throwing chili peppers in a sombrero. Hats are pushed further each time, whoever misses is eliminated fromgames.
3. "Collecting legumes". At the start, a cup with beans, beans or peas is placed. At the end - an empty vessel. The players are given a straw tube. Through it, you need to suck a pea and bring it to the finish line. Who will harvest the most beans in a given time?
4. "Corrida". There are two people in the competition. "Bull" are given horns. Any word is attached to the back of the bullfighter, and a red cloth is handed over. The task of the bull is to read the inscription on the back of the enemy. He must dodge. Do not touch each other with your hands or feet.
5. "Cool macho". Men are invited to play. They should smile and say the phrase: "I'm a cool macho." After each time, a lime wedge is placed in the mouth. Whose smile after 7 pieces of fruit is closer to natural, he won.

Incendiary disco

Dancing is a must at a Mexican party. You can use national music performed by mariachi, modern compositions in the style of Latino, reggaeton. It is better to start a disco with well-known tunes that will make everyone start dancing. These are the beloved "Macarena", "Besame Mucho", "La Cucaracha", "Pina Colada" by J. Buffett, "La Bamba" by R. Valens.

You can diversify dances with the help of the following games:

• "Newspaper". To fast music, the guests dance on a piece of newspaper, trying to tear it into many pieces. Whoever has more of them wins.
• "It's in the bag." To the musicthe guests pass each other a sombrero. Suddenly she stops. The one with the hat on his head is out of the game. The last player left wins.
• "Lime dance". Couples dance with a lime or lemon between their foreheads. If the fruit fell, the participants are eliminated. The winners are determined by the audience.
• "Three legs". Couples participate in the competition. They are tied with opposite legs. In this position, you need to harmoniously dance flamenco. Whoever did better, they won.

Colorful ending

It's time to end the Mexican party. A photo with a false mustache, in a sombrero and a poncho will help to keep wonderful moments in your memory. The final chord can be the traditional Mexican fun - piñata.

For her, you need to make figures from papier-mâché in advance. We glue the balloon with newsprint in several layers, then we burst and carefully remove it from the workpiece. Inside we put sweets, lollipops, marmalade, confetti. The top of the piñata is glued with corrugated paper, foil, flowers or feathers.

Guests are invited to take a stick (bat) and break the toy to cheerful music, pouring out its contents. Two adults can hold the piñata suspended by a rope. Sometimes hollow balls are harvested according to the number of children present so that no one is offended.

Mexicans love fireworks, but they should be fired outside. The most popular is fireworks in the form of a starfall, with which you can make your amigos happy.

Mexican party will give you a boost of energy and a good mood forcoming days. It is appropriate at any time of the year, competitions are easily adapted to a company of different ages. And most importantly - you can be transported for a few hours into the world of temperamental, cheerful Mexicans and forget about all your problems.