Pignata with their own hands at home - the features of making, practical tips, beautiful photo ideas

The piñata: original decoration and entertainment

No Mexican holiday passes without a piñata, and if the party is organized in a different style, this craft will have the guests to their liking. It is believed that the origin of this entertainment owes to the Chinese lanterns, they were filled with gifts, but today this tradition has taken over the world.

The large and bright toy is filled with tasty or pleasant presentations and hung from a tree branch or a special attachment. The guests or the guest of honor is faced with a quite clear and simple task, it is necessary to hit the toy with a stick and get its contents.

A variety of ideas for decorating children's parties

On birthdays, every child, regardless of gender and age, expects a miracle and self-made piñata will help make the party memorable. Depending on the theme of the party you organize, you can make a toy of any shape and configuration:

• animal figures, traditionally in Mexico piñatas are made in the form of colorful donkeys and horses;
• geometric decorations with stickers, drop-shaped or ball-shaped toys turn into snowdrops or stars
• three-dimensional letters and numbers, such piñatas will be an original gift for the birthday child and will emphasize his or her individuality
• Figurines with the forms of berries or fruits, it is easy to make piñatas in the form of a strawberry or apple, a pineapple and even a huge banana;
• symbolic shapes, if the holiday is not for children, you can use any symbols, a Christmas ball or heart, a sickle-shaped moon.

To make a good holiday with fun entertainment is not difficult for this it is important to choose the right shape of the piñata. It can be a pig or an owl, a large chocolate candy or confetti cannon, a multi-pointed star, and a pretty balloon.

What you can use to fill a piñata

If preparing a piñata for a children's party, making it necessarily includes choosing an interesting filling that the birthday boy and guests will enjoy:

• delicious sweets. It is best to choose small and light candies (waffles and caramels), because they will fly on the head of the guests in the process of breaking;
• Confetti and streamers. These decorations will help make the process of breaking the piñata more spectacular and turn it into a real show;
• small toys. The best option would be to choose small and soft souvenirs, they should not injure any of the guests and the celebrant;
• nuts in shells. Everything that falls out of the piñata will fall on the ground or on the floor, so treats must be securely protected by packaging and shell;
• gifts for guests. For boys you can put small cars or soldiers, for girls it is better to choose rubber bands and hairpins, bracelets.

Under the weight of treats and toys piñata paper should not tear, it is important to correctly calculate the weight of the finished decoration.

Technologies and ways to make a piñata at home

If the sketch of the piñata resembles the shape of a balloon, oval or drop, you can use a balloon and papier-mâché technique. The balloon is covered with 5-10 layers of newsprint and carefully glued with PVA glue, it can be diluted with a little water. To replace PVA glue, you can glue a small amount of flour (3 tablespoons of flour per 1 liter of liquid) in hot water and cool the composition.

To make complex in design and shape shapes use cardboard and a template on which to cut blanks. The parts are connected to each other with paper tape or paper strips and PVA glue, and it is important to avoid too secure a fixation. If you glue the figure well, the child may not have enough strength to break it, you can use different materials and decorations for decoration.

How to make a piñata in the shape of a bee house

Decorate the holiday and make a piñata in the form of a beehive is not difficult, you will need PVA glue, a balloon and crepe paper of yellow color. To make the decor, you can take colored paper (yellow and black), and as a filling use candy and confetti:

• a large balloon should be completely inflated and fix it, setting it on a jar or other container, the newspaper should be torn by hand into small elements (5x5 cm);
• It is better to grease the surface of the balloon with vaseline or baby oil, so that it quickly separates from the finished product, then cover with the first layer of newspaper squares;
• newspaper layer is covered with PVA glue (it can be replaced by flour and water paste to save glue composition after the surface dries, the procedure is repeated 5-7 times;
• It is better to hang the ball for a complete drying, then you can proceed to the decor of the toy, for which the crepe paper is cut into thin strips no wider than 4-5 cm;
• on one side of the strips using scissors, fringe is made (the paper is cut every 1-2 cm, the depth of the cut is no more than 2 cm), they are slightly curled with a pencil;
• completely dried balloon is carefully trimmed from the top and the balloon is taken out of it, the smaller part should be supplemented with a loop for the convenience of hanging the piñata;
• The blank is filled with prepared sweet surprises and small toys, confetti and cut foil, the halves are glued with a strip of paper;
• The prepared strips of corrugated paper are glued to the formed ball, starting from the very top, and when one of them ends, the work continues with the next one;
• While the finished piñata is drying, you can cut out the figures of bees from colored cardboard or paper, draw black stripes on them, and then glue the figures on the bee house.

Such an amazing and bright handicraft is suitable for a summer holiday or a party outside, where you can freely hang it on a tree branch. It is necessary to prepare in advance a tool for breaking the piñata, it can be any stick, which can easily be painted in yellow and black colors.

Applying the basics of the theoretical master class you can make your own toys of different shapes and with original decoration. Give a holiday to a child and all the invitees is simple enough, for this you can use themed crafts and fun, interesting for all children's entertainment.

Photo ideas of homemade piñata