A Fiesta party is always great for Cinco de Mayo, Quinceanera or anytime you want to have a South-of-the-Border party. Here are some ideas and tips will help make your planning easier:

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Decorating for your Fiesta Party -

• Drape serapes, Latin party props or Mexican print fabric, red, green and white table covers on furniture and around your cantina
• For centerpieces, try dried gourds, peppers, cactus plants and bright flowers
• Buy new paper goods in the color of the Mexican flag or recycle Christmas red, green and white party products
• String chili pepper design novelty lights or red, green and white Christmas lights around the party site
• Have your guests create their own "wild Spanish rose". You might need to help them. It's not a fiesta without colorful tissue-paper flowers. 
• Your Cantina should have sombreros, posters, maracas, artwork, piñatas and chili peppers around it

Fiesta Party Entertainment Ideas

• The Mexican Hat Dance is always an ideal fiesta party game. Ensure all your guests shake their maracas with the Macarena
• Hire someone to paint the men’s faces with mustaches and women’s with a floral design on their face or shoulder.
• Enjoy the "Pass the Sombrero," very similar to the hot potato game
• And, of course, the piñata!! All fiesta parties must include letting your guests take a big whack at a goody-filled piñata until it cracks

Fiesta Party Drinks and Foods -

• Set up a do it yourself counter and let the fiesta party guests to build their own fajita, enchilada and taco
• Small dips and snacks in glowing margarita glasses can be served
• Use red and green plastic eating utensils, hopefully left over from Christmas, to match the Mexican flag and coordinate with your Mexican theme party
• Serve dry snacks like corn and flour tortilla chips in the brim of a sombrero
• How about the always-popular drink includes pre-made or homemade sangria, or pitchers of virgin and regular margaritas.  To add variety, make frozen and fruit-flavored varieties. It is always appropriate to serve in blinking or glowing margarita glasses or add square, wedge-shaped or fruit slice-shaped glowing ice cubes to your already-owned margarita glasses for festive fun
• Offer fried flour tortilla wedges in hot oil until crisp sprinkled with a cinnamon-sugar mixture for dessert

Fiesta Party Prizes and Favors –

• Be sure and buy enough sombreros so that you can give each guest a sombrero to wear during the party and take home to keep
• Ensure each guest has a picture with the guest of honor or in front of a Mexican scene backdrop that they can take home
• Allow your fiesta party guests to conga to their cars with maracas