Party Saviors

• Cardboard cactuses
• Chili pepper string lights
• Serape table coverings over a green, white or red solid colored table cloth.
•  Red, white and green picado strings.
• Piñata filled with candy, trinkets and lottery tickets. 
• Lots of candles on tables - you can’t have too many candles!
• Small cactuses in terracotta pots - visit your local nursery.
• Luminarias line the walkway to your house, condo or apartment.
• Tissue paper flowers.

ACTIVITIES

• Break the piñata - filled with candy, trinkets and lottery tickets. Hang piñata from ceiling (out of the way of lamps, and furniture).  Blindfold guests, one at a time.  Give the blindfolded guest a pole and turn them around 3 times, then point them toward the piñata.  They get 90 seconds to find and break the piñata with the pole.  Once the piñata is broken everyone gathers the candy, trinkets and lottery tickets.
• Put each of the Mexican states on name badges and the best known city/town in that state on another name tag.  Put a name tag on each guest.  Object of the game is for the state and the city/town to find each other.  First state and town to find one another wins.
• Easy Spanish words scrambled.  First person to figure all of them out wins.
• Hire a local mariachi band.