Tutorial Tuesday (How To Make a Pinata)

For Talia's 6th birthday, we threw a Tangled Birthday Party!
One of the activities for the party was a piñata.


It was the typical balloon piñata. We just used flour & water to make a paste and strips of news paper to cover the balloon with.


Ken rigged a sort of frame out of some wire that he wrapped around the ballon before we started covering it with strips of newspaper, and made a loop at the top, to hang the piñata by later.

The next day when it was dry, I glue-gunned tissue paper around the piñata so that you wouldn't see newspaper peeking through when it was finished.


Then I started glue-gunning crepe streamers around it, and cutting the edges like this:


And here's how it turned out:



Ken attached it to the end of a stick and held it out for the girls to hit, like so:


And it was so fun to watch them hitting it (with a pot... cuz in the movie, there's a lot of hitting things with a frying pan. And because a frying pan seemed like a little much for these little girls ;)


More from the Tangled Party Here.