No bake Cinco De Mayo Sombrero cookies

Cinco de Mayo is a fun holiday celebrating Mexican heritage on the 5th day of May.  Here is a sweet treat sombrero made from ready to assemble ingredients.  Get the kids in on this, they will love putting them together.

Ingredients:
Pecan Sandy cookies
White icing
Gumdrop candies
mixed color sprinkles

Assemble:
Pipe a ring of icing around the edge of the cookie. and add color sprinkles to look like colorful tassels on a sombrero brim.
Add a dot of icing in the center of the cookie and place a gumdrop on it for the hat crown.
That really is all there is to it.  How fun is that?

Now for some festive DIY paper stars to put up.  They are fun and easy to make.  Even the kids will enjoy it.  Click here for step by step (with photos) on how to make them.  Click here to see the party luncheon and more decoration ideas.

Fun Cinco de Mayo

Our faculty luncheon this month centered the decoration theme around Cinco de Mayo which isn't typically a big celebration in Mexico, but in the US, especially Texas, it is.  There are celebrations, parades and cultural exhibits honoring the Mexican heritage.

There is a very talented lady at the campus where I work.  Brenda is our librarian and her talents at decorating are phenomenal!  I felt a wave of happiness and full expectations of a fun day when I walked into our lunch rooms.  Here are some photo's I took of her amazing decorations.

I love the fun twig trees spray painted white with color lights and tissue flowers.

She pleated large fan shaped flowers on the wall

The center vase is filled with pinto beans the two on either side are wrapped with color yarn



The burlap runner is died hot pink

My contribution.
Purchased cookies with purchased icing piped around the edges & dipped in sprinkles.
The sombrero hat crowns are gum drops attached with more icing.

These colorful paper stars are a craft Brenda is going to show me later.
Click here for step by step directions & pictures.

Bulletin board paper strips pleated, folded in half and stapled together