little ChuBBy PInATA

INTRO: Piñata history

A piñata is a item used in Mexico in posadas and children´s birth parties, it´s a container for candies and fruits, often made of papier-maché covered with brightly-colored paper as decoration.
Originally the piñatas are used in posadas they are shaped as a star with seven points that represent the sins, and the bright colors of decoration paper represents temptation; the stick is used as weapon for overcome the sins, and the candies, fruits and goodies the richness of heaven after defeat the sins.
Actually, they are also used for birth parties, filled with candies and goodies made with the shape of cartoon characters or other themes as dinosaurs, monsters, cars, animals, etc.

Step 1 Get the materials

Traditionally, piñatas are made with the papier-mâché technique, so you are going to need to make the wheatpaste (don´t worry it´s easy to made), you must consider the size of you piñata for gather the enough materials , I’m going to make a little one just for show how to make it, but the process still been the same.


For the wheatpaste:
Wheat or rice flour
Water
Boil
Spoon
Oven

For make the body
Wheatpaste
newspaper
Ballons, (you can use different sizes and different forms), the color don´t matters
Scissors and/or cutter

For decotarions
China paper, Silk paper or similar