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If you're Catholic or live in a heavily-Catholic area, you might know that Mardi Gras is coming up. (The area I live in doesn't really have many Mardi Gras activities, but my family lives in an area the celebrates.)
Mardi Gras Day is on February 20 this year, so you still have time to make some crafts.
When I think of visiting Mardi Gras parades in the past, besides hearing "boobs for beads" is the actual tossing of the beaded necklaces. Why not make your own necklaces?
You can get a string of yarn and some Life Savers candies (or any candies that have a hole in the middle) and string them on the yarn. Life Savers have green, yellow and purple candies, which are the colors needed for a Mardi Gras necklace.
For a little more fun, you can have your very own "parade" around your house, complete with bead tossing. Just keep the clothes on, okay?
Mardi Gras Day is on February 20 this year, so you still have time to make some crafts.
When I think of visiting Mardi Gras parades in the past, besides hearing "boobs for beads" is the actual tossing of the beaded necklaces. Why not make your own necklaces?
You can get a string of yarn and some Life Savers candies (or any candies that have a hole in the middle) and string them on the yarn. Life Savers have green, yellow and purple candies, which are the colors needed for a Mardi Gras necklace.
For a little more fun, you can have your very own "parade" around your house, complete with bead tossing. Just keep the clothes on, okay?
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ReaderComments (Page 1 of 1)
2-17-2007 @ 11:07AM
Wendy said...Dont forget, you can make your own floats out of shoe boxes. Cover them with pretty paper or foil and use anything to decorate them. Ahhh, memories of grade school.
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2-16-2007 @ 9:39AM
Stephanie said...Great post! The lifesavers are a great idea. You can also make your own King Cake with a roll of refrigerated cinnamon roll dough and colored sugar icing.
Mardi Gras gets such a bad rap. The news crews love to show the tourists on Bourbon street stumbling drunk and half-naked. The real Mardi Gras happens all around the French Quarter to as far away as Alabama and Texas where locals gather their extended family and head out to the parades with the little ones in radio flyer wagons and bring fried chicken dinners and folding chairs for the grandparents.
My parents live in a town without a red light and only one main street. We'll be watching the local parade that consists of about 50 pick up trucks and tractor-trailers decorated and filled with families from babies to great-grandparents. The elementary school band will march and everyone will dress thier kids up in their leftover Halloween costumes. It's a wonderful time and I wouldn't trade it for all the beer and half naked tourists in the Quarter.
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2-16-2007 @ 11:43AM
Rachel said...I will echo what the previous poster said. The Mardi Gras you see on TV doesn't really represent the way locals celebrate. You can go to St. Charles Avenue or Metarie and see families camped out on the median to watch parades and barbecue. The kids sit on tall ladder chairs to catch beads, and it's all very G-rated.
When I was a kid we made shoebox Mardi Gras floats for contests at school. We also loved to play with Mardi Gras beads. You can buy them in bulk online for a few cents a strand.
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