Talk with your preschoolers about a Latin American hero, such as Cesar Chavez or Sonya Sotamayor. In age appropriate ways, talk about how the person you adopt has worked to help other people. Print out coloring pages featuring these figures, color them as a class and then display them on the classroom walls.
Choose a different Latin American flag to color each day of the school week. Print off a color photograph of the flag so that the kids can see which colors are used in the flag. Set a coloring sheet and the properly colored crayons at each student's desk and ask each of them to try coloring in the flags. If their cutting skills are up to par, provide safety scissors so that they can cut the flags out. Use a hole puncher to punch a hole in each flag and then string some ribbon through all of the flags so that they can be hung from the ceiling in your classroom.
Send a permission form home with each child in your class, asking for $10 towards purchasing authentic Latin American food from a local restaurant. Choose a variety of items off of the menu, such as tacos, chips, queso, guacamole and flan. Provide juice or water to drink and play music from all over Latin America while the kids eat. For extra fun, hang a pinata for the kids to break once they finish eating.
The percussive sounds in much of Latin American music are beautiful and unique. Help your students to experience the musical aspects of Hispanic heritage by making maracas out of paper cups and drums out of plastic flower pots. Learn a popular song from one of the Latin American countries and have the children march around in a circle beating their drums and shaking their maracas while singing it.