OK, so we got invited to a Hallowe'en party, one of those where people bring contributions to the buffet.
"Of course we'd like to come - what shall we bring?"
"Could you manage a Hallowe'en-themed piñata?"
Er, OK...
...and here we go.
(Oh, and the emergency? Version one, a papier mache construction failed. Four days of pasting and gluing, and it all went wrong. I didn't have four days left to make another that way.)
So, to the cardboard!
"Of course we'd like to come - what shall we bring?"
"Could you manage a Hallowe'en-themed piñata?"
Er, OK...
...and here we go.
(Oh, and the emergency? Version one, a papier mache construction failed. Four days of pasting and gluing, and it all went wrong. I didn't have four days left to make another that way.)
So, to the cardboard!
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I didn't have time to make another frame and cover it in a stiff shell, so I decided to go straight for a stiff shell.
I had some thick corrugated card*, too thick for smooth curves, so I decided to go geometric, and make a truncated cuboid - six octahedra, in the planes of the faces of a cube, with equilateral triangles filling in the corners.
I used the largest handy sheet of paper (a page of newsprint) to make a square.
Folding into four, then a triangle, and cutting off one point makes a nice octahedron when opened.
I cut two "proper" octahedrons out of the card, then folded the template across the middle to make it narrower - I wanted the piñata to be slightly flatter than a cube.
*Saved from the box that a garden bench came in - Kitewife got fed up with waiting for me to get round to making her one.
I had some thick corrugated card*, too thick for smooth curves, so I decided to go geometric, and make a truncated cuboid - six octahedra, in the planes of the faces of a cube, with equilateral triangles filling in the corners.
I used the largest handy sheet of paper (a page of newsprint) to make a square.
Folding into four, then a triangle, and cutting off one point makes a nice octahedron when opened.
I cut two "proper" octahedrons out of the card, then folded the template across the middle to make it narrower - I wanted the piñata to be slightly flatter than a cube.
*Saved from the box that a garden bench came in - Kitewife got fed up with waiting for me to get round to making her one.
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youre paper outlines for catapults are great, and now you saved me
tomorow i need a pinata for a school party
THANK YOU
Everything I seem to make seems to be inferior and I don't feel like posting because it feels stupid, even if I should.
I built a "candy bottle" which is a shortened 2 L bottle for Smarties and stuff because my step brother has far too many loose lollies around the place.
I did extremely simple sewing to make my backdrop for picture taking, but it sits well on a curtain rod.
I did a 2 minute gutter cap for our hot house because the gutters had no ends and it just ran off, so I capped one side so we can get a tank and lead the water into it.
I made a motivational background / desktop image, looks great, but I normally I have Instructables up so the motivational side of it gets lost in talking to every one on here.
At least I'm still fairly young so I have a little while to build up to your standards.
The rest of the comment is more of a rant.
You should have gone with the rhombicosidodecahedron.
What did you / will you fill it with?
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