DIY Piñata

You’ll need:

• a box with two decent sized panels
• a metal clip (which you will dismantle)
• a plastic table cloth of your color choice (available at the dollar store)
•  stuff to put inside
• tape (masking tape will work better than packing tape)
• Modge Podge glue

Draw a circle onto two panels of card board box and cut them out.

Use the remaining cardboard to cut about 2 ½ inch strips for the edge.

Tape the strips to the edge of one of the circles (perpendicular), leaving about an inch un-taped at the end.

Secured the second circle to the opposing edge of the strips, leaving the same inch un-taped.

Take one of the horseshoe pin/lever things off of the metal clip.

Just inside the inch of stripping that you left un-taped, poke two holes about the length apart of the legs of the pin. (I used the pin itself to poke the holes, it was pretty easy.)

Really any other method of installing a hanging device will probably work. Do your own thing. Just make sure you do it before you get too far.

Put some candy in and tape up your inch of stripping so that you have a whole cylinder full of candy and a hanging device sticking out of it.

Cut out two pieces of table cloth large enough to cover each circle of the cylinder and glue it with decoupage glue, smoothing the rough edges down onto the perpendicular cardboard (I used a small paint brush to spread my glue).

Cut a single strip of table cloth long enough to go all the way around the edging and wide enough to cover the rough edges that you had smoothed down there.

To hide any roughness, and to make it look more like a piñata, cut 4 by 2 inch strips of table cloth and cut fringes up ½ of the 2 inch side. I didn’t give too much attention to spacing, but I did try to keep it consistent throughout.

Starting with one of the circles, I worked my way from the outer edge toward the center, layering fringed pieces all the way to center. The tricky part of this is to not let the glue from the top of the previous row get hold of the fringes of the row you are laying. Try to work in a circle so that the glue has a minute to dry.

When I got to the middle with the fringes I simply took a color print that I cut out and stuck it in the center.

Voila. One side done. Just repeat on the other side, and along the edging if you want to, and you’re ready to party.

My piñata cost me $7 (including candy).