Actually, I don’t think I love them, but I do love watching the little monkeys get all excited about lining up. “Who gets to go first,” “but he’s older,” “he got to hit it more than I did,” “why do I have to be blindfolded, he wasn’t blindfolded” (…ummm he’s 2 years old). Then…CANDY, the mad scramble, then the whining. “He got more,” “hey I didn’t get one of those.”
Yes, pinatas are fun but CAUTION: someone is always going to cry and it is not possible to make every child happy at the same time.
If you were to go into Target or WalYuck to buy a pinata:
#1. It costs $12.99…rip off!
#2. Unless you want a donkey, pirate, Elmo, or something that is suppose to resemble a princess, your choices are pretty limited.
#3 It was made in Mexico by someone in a factory who gets paid a crappy wage, & doesn’t love what they are doing.
#4 After paying $12.99 plus tax, you proceed to buy crappy candy to stuff it with because you already spent $12.99 on an ugly pinata and now have to spend another $12 bucks on candy. And now I have to spend more money on a paper/plastic goodie bags to put the crappy candy in for all the whining kids and so now I’m really like $30 into this thing.
Have no fear. I am here to save you from this vicious cycle.
#1 Find a balloon (or call your neighbor at 9pm because you can’t find one). Hopefully you have one somewhere in your house. I have no idea where ours came from. In fact once I did come across it, I hid it from the kids for 6 weeks because I knew exactly what I was going to do with it.
#2 Tear up some news paper. Hopefully your mother saves the newspaper for you because you are to cheap to spend $1.50 a week on the Sunday paper.
#3 Find about 2″ of glue in a glue bottle. Add warm water and shake and pour into a leftover bowl/pan/whatever because it is going to be thrown away.
#4 Have your very own handsome husband blow up the balloon for you because husbands are usually full of hot air and it makes them feel special because they just did something (easy) that you asked them to do.
#5 Prop balloon on some sort of container so it doesn’t roll away making a huge sticky mess. You might even want to place some old towels underneath so you don’t drip watery gluey goop on the counter.
#6 Dip strips of newspaper into watery glue and start laying them on the balloon in no particular order or pattern until you have one layer of gluey paper on pinata.
#7 If it’s sunny set out the pinata on your neighbors lounging chairs that you borrowed over a month ago (and still have in your possession) because you wanted to get a tan for your handsome husband’s work party because you needed to get rid of your farmer tan so you could wear a dress (the only one you own) but were too cheap to pay $20 for 3 tanning sessions at the tanning salon. Do not put balloon outside in hot sun. It will pop. Trust me as I now know this for sure.
#8 Repeat steps #6 & #7 about 10 more times until you have a nice thick (can take a few rounds with a stick) pinata.
#9 Holy Crap this really is step by step. Using leftover tissue paper (because if you are like me you have not bought any tissue paper/wrapping paper/ bows or bags for about 3 years now because you either liberate them from your mother when she’s out of town (she buys to much anyway) or because you save EVERY flippin bow/box/piece of paper so you can reuse them (not have to buy them). So again, using left over tissue paper, make a bunch of strips, cut the bottoms and glue them onto the pinata. Since I am making an egg {gee that’s original} I only used white paper.
#10 Decide on a filling point (I chose the top) for your pinata. Pop the balloon and create a hole big enough to stuff with prizes/candy.
#11 Stuff pinata with $10 worth of QUALITY (no crappy hard candy) goodies you have found on sale.
#12 Find some sort of ribbon/hook thingy to stick in the top of the pinata so you can tie a rope thru it. Then all that’s left to do is line up all the little monkeys and take cover.
After making the egg pinata I decided it just didn’t have the “flair” I was looking for. So today I started construction on pinata #2. Hey, who’s says you can only have 1 pinata at a party anyway? Can you guess what this one is going to be?
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