French teachers love to teach their students about Mardi Gras. I love to throw parties for my students and I love any excuse to make Southern food. It makes the students smile and there's always a positive shift in the dynamic of each classroom after we bond over food. For Lundi Gras I made jambalaya and took it in a crock pot. I also served French bread and hot sauces on the side. For Mardi Gras I bought cinnamon sock-it-to-me cakes and decorated them with cream cheese icing and purple, green and gold sprinkles. I had no plastic baby Jesuses because in Kansas there are only Rosca de Reyes cakes at Epiphany. There are no Mardi Gras king cakes in the bakeries or grocery stores. I'll have to order the plastic babies for next year's celebrations. I used red pieces of candy as the "bean" instead and gave bead necklaces as prizes to the King or Queen who got the candy in their piece of cake. We watched videos about the history of Mardi Gras, played Mardi Gras themed Kahoot games and studied Cajun French vocabulary words. It was a fun Mardi Gras for me and the students but I was exhausted by Ash Wednesday!