Oowee y?all, this Saturday, March 2, will celebrate the day settlers in Mexican Texas officially broke from Mexico and created the Republic of Texas. That?s right, it?s Texas Independence Day, and if you?re a true Texan, chances are that you?ll be celebrating. Need a little help deciding what to do? We?ve got your back. Texas-centric music? Check. Decor? Check. BBQ recipes? Duh. Texas-themed activities for the kids? You bet. Texas Independence Day events around town? Indeed.
God bless Texas.
Come and Take It Mural from the Gonzales Memorial Museum ?via wikipedia
Since we?re in Austin, the top priority of your day should be music. There are TONS ?of songs about Texas, but we?ve found the best of the best, the tunes that really capture the spirit of our great nation state. We made a playlist on Spotify, put it on and have a great day?
Do512 Family?s TX Independence Day Playlist
Now that your music is covered, what the H are you gonna do? Have a cookout! Obviously. Don?t sweat the recipes, decor or drinks because we totally took care of that.
Check out our?Texas Independence Day Cookout board?on Pinterest to find BBQ recipes, Texas cocktails, stuff to wear and decoration ideas.
OK, so you?re cooking out and sipping on some Shiner, which is a great time to you, but your kids find this insanely boring. We?ve scoured the webs to find some Texas-themed crafts and games so that everyone at the party has an awesome day.
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Let guests big and small plant their own bluebonnet seeds into a small terracotta pot. They can decorate it and take it home so they?ll remember your super fun party forever.
Roll out some paper and lay out some fingerpaints and let the kids make bluebonnet or Indian paintbrush fingerprint pictures.
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Get some supplies and let the kids craft themselves a Stick Horse. Check out this step-by-step tutorial. This is sure to be a hit and will keep the kids busy for the entire day! If you don?t want to get all of these supplies, don?t sweat it. Improvise, the kids aren?t going to care. When they?re done, make up some sort of relay race and let ?em loose.
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Head to your favorite thrift store and get some old picture frames. You can cut out sponges in cowboy shapes like boots, hats, cacti or stars and let the children dip them in paint and decorate the frames.
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Do a Western Dress up Relay! Gather two sets of western themed clothes and place them in piles. Divide your guests into two teams.?The first person runs across to the pile of their team?s clothes, puts everything on, runs back to tag their next team member ? then back again to the pile and take off the items.?They then run and tag the next team member in line and that person continues the relay until everyone takes a turn.
?Horseshoes, duh. Washers, double duh.
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Get some cheap cowboy hats at a thrift store, or lay out your own, and let the kids do a Cowboy Hat Toss. Or you can string up hula hoops and have then try and throw the hats through the hoop.
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Wanna go out instead?
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? The 10th Annual Texas Independence Day Parade and 5K will start at 8 am. The parade will leave from the Congress Avenue Bridge at 9:30 am, be there and wear your stars and stripes!
? Head on down to Luckenbach for the Texas Independence Day Celebration. The Texas Rangers will conduct an official Texas flag retirement ceremony and music will start and 12:30 pm. Hundreds of horses and wagons will parade through downtown Luckenbach. The night will wrap up with a boot scoot in the dace hall at 8 pm.
? The Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum will have FREE admission from 2 ? 6 pm so you can brush up on our badass history.
? The Joseph and Susanna Dickinson Hannig Museum will be Treasuring Texas with a reading of the ?Victory or Death? letter, demonstrations by period re-enactors and tours of the museum. Free, event is from 2 ? 4 pm in the courtyard behind the museum, and the museum is open for free tours from 12 ? 5 pm.
There you have it, your guide to a wonderful Texas-centric day. It?s going to be so much fun, you?re welcome!
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Source: http://do512family.com/2013/02/texas-independence-day/
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