DIY | Mini piñata ❤
Good evening friends.
Today I want to share with you this mini piñata that I made against my will hahaha, it is really a work of my son's school for us (moms) since the school tomorrow turns 57 years old and to celebrate they will decorate the whole school and as always, there we are the moms to collaborate with something, although this time I found it a challenge because I had never made a piñata, although after finishing it I must say that it is quite simple, the most tedious part was to decorate it with crepe paper, but the rest was super easy.
Today I am not feeling very well physically but we have to deliver this piñata tomorrow so I had to work with my spirits down, even so I had a good result for being the first time I do this, the teacher guided us by sending a video tutorial, they wanted a small piñata since it is to hang several on the ceiling, they also asked for specific colors so I used gold, white and wine, also this piñata will not be filled with candy like a normal piñata, it will simply be decoration.
However, it can be done the same way I did it only leaving a space in the pieces to put the candy inside, I hope you like it.
- Cartón
- Tijeras
- Lápiz
- Silicon caliente
- Regla
- Papel crepe blanco, vinotinto y dorado
- Hilo grueso
- Cardboard
- Scissors
- Pencil
- Hot silicon
- Ruler
- White, wine and gold crepe paper
- Thick thread
I almost always make my crafts with cereal boxes, they seem to me the perfect cardboard to work with, in this case I took 3 boxes of my favorite cereal that I always keep for these occasions, I used three boxes because I knew that I was going to get the heart wrong and so it was, first I made the heart shape in a box and it was very elongated, at first it looked good but then I discarded it, the second heart was even worse and I only had one cereal box left, only one chance to make a fatter and smaller heart, this time it looked good, so I started to cut it out and then trace its shape on the other part of the box, I also cut it out and measured both to verify that they were the same size.
I cut two thick strips from the cereal box that would serve me to join these two hearts, I took hot silicone and started to glue the first strip around the first heart, it was quite complicated really, I think that with another type of method would be easier, for example using tape, however, I managed to glue the entire end of the heart together with the tape, I glued the second tape on the other side, and my piñata was taking shape, it looked like a nice little box.
Btw this heart does not have exact measurements, I really did it calculating according to what I saw because when I do things with measurements I don't do them very well, I prefer to work like this. Well, then I started to glue the second heart cover on the side that was still empty, I also glued it with hot silicone and it was pretty good, it fit better than I expected hahahaha, I took the crepe paper and cut several strips to each strip I made cuts so it would have that effect as hairy (I do not know how to call that effect it has) I started to glue the ribbons from the bottom up filling the first side of the heart, I started with wine, then white and finally gold.
This same step was done at each end of the heart until it was completely filled, when finished, I glued a thick thread in the center of the heart at the top so that it can be easily hung on the wall or ceiling.
As you can see, it really wasn't as complicated as I thought, it must also be influenced by the fact that this piñata is small, probably if I had made a bigger one I would have gone crazy, but luckily the teacher said it had to be very small.
The process of gluing the crepe paper it took me a lot of time, about two hours, this made me a little stressed, also it was very breezy today so the papers were flying all the time, but I am glad to have done this and learn a little more for next time.
Hacer una piñata toma tiempo y requiere mucho trabajo, la verdad nunca me he animado hacer uno, he visto como lo hacen, sería todo un reto para mi jeje, te felicito por intentarlo, te quedo muy bien, al ser tan pequeño, creo que requiere mayor destreza, por los detalles son más pequeños.
Hola @ikigaidesign gracias por tu comentario, asi es, no lo habia pensado asi, puede que se vuelva bastante tedioso por ser pequeño tendria que probar hacer una un poco mas grande para comparar 😁 Saludoss
Hola, buen trabajo con la piñata para el colegio.🖖