How to Dress a Lawn Goose for Cinco de Mayo

Cinco de Mayo, or the 5th of May is not the Mexican Independence Day, but more an American Holiday. It actually is celebrated only in a small area of Mexico. A small army won the battle against the French at Puebla, Mexico. You can dress your lawn goose for Cinco de Mayo and help to celebrate this imported holiday.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

1. Buy your lawn goose a plain green pair of pants. Will need to get a shirt that has red, white, and green stripes on it. These are the colors of the Mexican flag. You want your lawn goose to match his other accessories.

2. Find a small Mexican flag. If you cannot find one, create one. The flag is a solid panel of green on the left, white in the middle with the Mexican coat of arms, and red on the right end. The picture in the middle depicts an eagle eating a snake.

3. Look in stores and online for a small sombrero to fit your lawn goose. There is a site that carries mini sombreros in the resource area. You can add ball fringe and a colorful band to these to spruce up your lawn goose look.

4. Put the Mexican Flag on one side of the lawn goose. The other side of the lawn goose should have something that represents Mexico. You can hang some chili peppers, make the lawn goose a guitar player, or make a set of maracas from small gourds.

Tips & Warnings

• The legend of the design for the coat of arms was that God told the Aztecs to locate where they saw an eagle atop a nopal cactus, eating a snake. To make the image more noticeable the cactus was to be growing out of a rock that was filled with water. The nomadic Aztecs found the cactus and eagle and located there. Today the location is called Mexico City.

Resources

• Latham Trading Post has mini sombreros.