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Home » Activities » Mexican Flag – Preschool Activity

Mexican Flag – Preschool Activity

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This post includes a fun hands-on art and culture activity for kids. Have you ever looked at the Mexican flag and its colors? I love the colors of Mexico! The colors are green, white, and red are vibrant and fun for kids. Cinco de Mayo provides a wonderful opportunity to work with these colors, working the senses and also provides a foray into learning about Mexican culture, history, and geography.

Make a Mexican Flag with Kids

Study Mexico with Your Kids

What is the Meaning Behind the Colors of Mexico’s Flag

  • Green: represents hope for a better nation, where people join together to achieve and maintain peace between them.
  • White: represents the purity (of Catholic faith).
  • Red: the color of blood. With the inclusion of this color on their flag, Mexican people pay a tribute to those who died during the terrible war for independence.

Check out Mexico on a World Map 

My son loves maps so pulling out the map to locate Mexico was easy. We studied the location on the continent of North America and the relationship to Central and South America. We are fortunate that his preschool teacher is from Peru and speak Spanish to them regularly. So, he understood that Mexico was a different country and that they speak Spanish.

Talk about the History of Cinco De Mayo

Cinco de Mayo means the fifth of May in Spanish. The date marks the Anniversary of the Battle of Puebla and is a holiday celebrated in parts of Mexico and the United States in honor of a military victory in 1862 over the French forces of Napoleon III.

Create a Mexican Flag with Kids

Our first hands-on activity to celebrate this lovely and profound Cinco de Mayo was to create a Mexican flag.

Materials Needed

  • poster board
  • green & red construction paper
  • green, white, and red feathers to add some fun texture (pom poms, markers, or crayons would work well, too!)
  • glue
  • jumbo popsicle sticks 
  • print out of Mexico
  • miniature flags
 

Steps to Making Your Mexican Flag

Cinco de Mayo Preschool Activity - Mexican Flag

I grabbed a piece of poster board and green and red construction paper to outline the flag’s colors.

Cinco de Mayo Preschool Activity - Mexican Flag

We had some green, red and white feathers waiting around for a nice sensory tub experience. I thought they’d make a good texture for this project. You could grab pom poms or use markers and crayons to keep it extra simple (which I always like!).

Cinco de Mayo Preschool Activity

I put glue into a smaller squeeze bottle easy for my almost 3-year-old to handle.

Cinco de Mayo Preschool Activity

I thought jumbo popsicle sticks would make for a good flag “pole”.

Cinco de Mayo Preschool Activity

I also grabbed these cute Mexican flags (typically used for food and drink) to decorate the poster board.

Cinco de Mayo Preschool Activity

We squeezed glue. A lot of glue. Probably too much.

Cinco de Mayo Preschool Activity

We placed feathers on the colored rectangles and squeezed more glue.

Cinco de Mayo Preschool Activity - Mexican Flag

My son really wants to put glue on the top of the flag “pole” and glue the mini flags onto it. So I let him.

Cinco de Mayo Kids Activity

We proudly displayed it on our windowsill.

Thank you for choosing to visit my blog today. I hope that we inspired you!

Marnie

Tagged With: Culture, Holidays, Homeschool, Infant & Toddler, Kindergarten, Preschool, Sensory

About Marnie Craycroft

Marnie hails from Maine where she spent summers buried in sand and winters buried in snow. She is the daughter of a nearly four decade veteran of the public school systems. Teaching has always been a part of her life. She founded Carrots Are Orange in 2010.

Carrots Are Orange is a Montessori learning and living website for parents and teachers.

Marnie graduated from Wesleyan University in 1999 with a BA in Economics. She spent nearly a decade working in investment management. In 2006, she earned her MA in business from the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business.

Marnie moved to the west coast in 1999 and currently lives in Boulder with her husband and three sons. She is Montessori trained. Her work has been featured on Apartment Therapy, Buzzfeed, PBS Kids, BabyCenter, the Melissa & Doug blog, Huffington Post, and WhattoExpect.com. Besides writing, passions include running (usually after her three sons), photography, and outdoor adventures.

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