Perform a Mexican Hat Freeze Dance

What You Do:

1. Place a sombrero in the middle of a spacious room where kids can dance.
2. While the music plays, players dance around the sombrero in a circle, playfully stepping on the brim from time to time and clapping to the beat of the music.
3. Every time the music stops, players must freeze. If a player is caught moving or with a foot on the sombrero, that person is eliminated.
4. The object of the game is to be the last one dancing.
5. The person who wins takes a turn playing the music.

“Jarabe Tapatio” was composed by a Mexican music professor in the 19th century and tells the story of love and courtship. The traditional Mexican Hat Dance can be performed by a couple or a group of couples, with the female, “la china,” wearing a China Poblana dress, and the male, “charro,” clad in a three-piece suit with pants that have silver buttons down the seam.