How to make a Piñata! A Fun and Easy Project with Mr. Vargas
What will you learn? • Today you will learn the construction of a simple cardboard piñata. • With practice, you will be able to make any shape or figure you want! THE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS. • You will be able to make a pinata for your next special event! • Team work! Ask your parents or siblings for help!
Materials You will need: • Scissors • Glue • Pencil or Marker • Tape (yellow masking) • Tissue Paper (any color) • Cardboard Box (any size) • String or wire (to hang your piñata) • A Round Shape (a plate, pot, or pizza cardboard)
Prepare the Cardboard It doesn’t matter if the cardboard is pretty or ugly or where you found it! you will be deorating it so know one will ever know that is was ugly! Step a. Cut the Cardboard box on every edge where it is folded. Make sure to keep all of the pieces!
Make Circle Shape You only need two Cardboards that are the same size. Step A. Draw or trace the circle shape. **Ideas: The circle can be any size. You can use a plate, a pot, Pizza Cardboard, or whatever you can find. I used this pink circle as an example.
Cut Circle Shape Step a. Cut out the two circle shapes. They must to be the same size. *You have to be strong! Use good scissors to make it easier. **Most importantly be careful! Ask for help if you need it.
The Side Edge You will need the flaps from the box to make the flexible side edge like you see below. They should all be the same height. This is what it should look like. Before After
How to make the flexible side edge B. When you A. Gently slice lines all have fnisihed the way across the flaps slicing, Your about an inch apart. flaps should bend and fold like this. C. Make enough flaps to fit around the shape you are going to make. In this example, it is a round circle.
WAIT! Before we continue! We have to make the hole Inside to fill the candy! Step A. Cut a small circle on the flexible side edge. You can hide it later with decoration. We also need to hang it! So that the pinata doesn’t break easily, we have to put in a hanging support device. It will look like this.
How to Make the Hanging Support Device A, CUT TWO C. Make two holes on the flexible edge SMALL SQUARE to match the two PIECES OF small squares. CARDBOARD, about half the Pass a strong string size of a cell or wire through the edge and the two phone. Inside cardboard pieces. Then, tie them together. B. STACK THE d. This is what TWO BOARDS. the inside and Using outside should Outside scissors, POKE look like. This two holes. is how you will hang the BE CAREFUL! pinata.
Tape Together Your Piñata Using 2”-3” inch pieces of tape, tape the flexible edge to the bottom side of the circle. Continue around the entire base. You may need help at first. It should look something like this. Inside Outside
Tape Together Your Piñata Continue taping all around the piñata. A. Place second circle on top. Tape it down. B. Your taped up piñata should look something like this.
Finally! Time to Decorate the pinata! • You can use any paper or material you want. • You can use any colors you want. • You can even paint your pinata! • Be creative!
Make the decoration C. Once the a. Line up strips are cut, and stack you will make fringe one side several of the strip. sheets of This is what soft tissue makes it look paper. Fold fluffy. To make the fringe, cut paper at into the strip the crease. half way, every half inch or so. B. Cut long strips about D. Your finished two inches strips with fringe should wide. look like this.
C. Continue A. Lightly gluing cover the strip aroud top side with small and amounts of around, glue. covering Work on one the top side at a side. time. B. Place strip Your with the fringe side finished out, around top side the edge. If should you are laying your strips look straight something across, start like this. at the bottom.
Continue this process until you have decorated the entire piñata…
YOUR FINISHED PRODUCT SHOULD LOOK SOMETHING LIKE THIS…
Don’t forget to add the candy and toys, and hide the hole…
Congratulations! You are now a certified piñata maker! THE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS! Have fun!
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