Nothing gets a party going like the fun and excitement of a piñata. Kids and adults alike delight in the tradition, and it will surely help break the ice at a holiday party. The creatives behind the blog Oh Happy Day show how you can put one together yourself, choosing anything you like for the prizes inside.
The team at Oh Happy Day explains:
This moon piñata can work two ways. Of course you can hang fill it with candy, but you can also just use it as a decoration. This technique of making a piñata (instead of paper mache) goes so quick and has a lot less mess. When I'm making a piñata like this I usually add the fringe while I'm watching a movie. It's mindless work but is really relaxing.
For the full instructions, check out Oh Happy Day.
(Images: Kate Nicholson for Oh Happy Day)
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It is fun to make pinatas, but if you buy one take 30 seconds to fluff out the tissue fringe and it will look so much better. I've also bought cheap clearance rack or grocery store pinatas and glued on a little extra fringe here and there to deluxe effect.
I suggest that you just consider how easy or hard it will be to open the sucker! I have seen lovely pinatas that were next to impossible to break open, and the frustration levels rose kind of spoiling the fun!
This is something done in Mexico, not in America so I'm not getting the suggestion that this is something normally done here, or in any other typically western country for that matter.
yes, my first pinata I made of papier mache over a balloon. It was WAY too difficult for 4-year-olds to break open! After all the biggest kids and older siblings still couldn't we put it down on the deck and beat the crap out of it. I don't think the cardboard type pictured here would be too difficult.
Love this moon piñata. I made my first piñata for my son's Angry Bird themed 5th Birthday Party this year. We had 7 kids btwn 4 and 6 yrs whacking at the thing and it came down after the 2nd round of hits. Lots of fun and laughs.
For a younger crowd, I would suggest making a piñata with ribbons that the kids pull with one ribbon releasing the trap door. You could have the kids pull a ribbon one at a time or have them all pull at once.