Make your own easy Piñata!
What is a piñata? A piñata is a Spanish decoration filled with sweets or small gifts used to help celebrate a party or festival. A piñata is made of papier mache, usually in the shape of an animal, and is hung from the ceiling. When it is time to break the piñata, children gather underneath it and one at a time, trying to hit the piñata as many times as possible with a stick while blindfolded! When the piñata finally breaks, the sweets and gifts fall down for everyone to help themselves!
Here is how to make your own easy piñata, perfect for your own Birthday Party
Materials:
• Paper Bag
• Sugar-free sweets and small toys
• Newspaper
• Coloured tissue paper
• String
• Craft glue
• Stapler
• Scissors
• Holepunch
What to do:
Step 1 Fill your brown paper bag with sugar free sweets, toys or any other fun prizes that you like! Only fill the bag about a quarter full with goodies, then add scrunched up newspaper to fill out the rest. You don’t want your bag to be too full of lollies or it will be too heavy to hang up!
Step 2 Once the piñata is filled nearly to the top, roll down the opening 2 or 3 times and then staple it shut.
Step 3 With help from Mum or Dad, cut several strips of coloured tissue paper so they’re long enough to wrap entirely around the paper bag. Use your scissors to cut a fringe on each of your strips of paper.
Step 4 Starting at the bottom, glue a strip of fringed tissue paper so that it hangs slightly over the bottom edge. Continue to layer your coloured strips of tissue paper until you get to the very top! Once you’re finished, your entire bag should be covered in coloured strips of fringed tissue paper!
Step 5 Starting at the bottom, glue a strip of fringed tissue paper so that it hangs slightly over the bottom edge. Continue to layer your coloured strips of tissue paper until you get to the very top! Once you’re finished, your entire bag should be covered in coloured strips of fringed tissue paper!
Step 6 Cut several strips of tissue paper, long and thin. Glue them to the bottom of the piñata to make a sort of tail.
Step 7 Now you can hang up your piñata! This piñata may not break the same way as a traditional paper mache piñata, but it is just as bright and colourful and you will love the surprises inside just the same!
