Make your own christmas pinata - no skill required!

Making your own Christmas present piñata is easy, cheap and a fun way to keep children of all ages busy this Christmas.

 All you need is;
# A cardboard box - I get a lot of packaging so I had a few saved up but you can generally get them for free at your local corner shop or buy them fairly cheaply online.
# Some stuffing - Suitable for the kids in question. This is for a family of boys, the eldest of which is 15 and the youngest 3, the stuffing also needed to be halal so I spent a while reading labels. Never knew there were so many ingredients in swizzles sweets. You can spend as much or as little as you like - from a few wrapped sweets from the local market to a whole host of flash goodies.
# Wrapping paper - you can even cut out and stick on pictures from old magazines or get your children to have fun decorating it themselves. You can even make them fluffy like a traditional piñata. 
# String or ribbon

Instructions
1) Fill the box with your stuffing
2) wrap it or decorate it
3) Add ribbon

Couldn't be simpler than that! I'm busy working and dealing with porley children this Christmas so I haven't had time to make the usual flash Christmas pinata's for the children I buy presents for so this was a quick and easy solution I thought I'd share.

Christmas orders.

We've been really busy with Christmas orders again this year. The ever popular Christmas pudding piñata's being outranked by little monsters. Which was quite surprising. We'll add new photo's when we've finally caught up with everything and dealt with the giant balls and assorted body parts! 

 

 

Russian doll pinatas

  Not only are there piñatas that look like Russian dolls,

we can also make one piñata that slots inside another!

Or seven in this case. We'll add more photos and information when the flower tower is finally complete.



We had to stand on a chair to get a picture from above it's that tall!

Marble pot.

This is our first project, made entirely from paper pulp (and marbles). We used some 'antique' and some modern marbles (140ish) as something interesting to set into the mush.

We were a bit impatient and managed to squish the first layer. It still needs painting. The whole pinata lady family were involved in the making of it.

Sorry this picture is so ropey there was a giant inflatable pink unicorn trying to eat out of it at the time. Out of literally hundreds of pics this was the best. One day we'll get around to takeing some more!

We built the base first and then built up the sides a layer at a time. We really wouldn't recommend this as a first project with pulp! We got to this point and decided it would make a nice ash tray and that we never wanted to see the blooming thing again.

1st anniversary -

Today was the first anniversary of the piñata lady (And the piñata pimp as well as piñata face).

We made a giant neon pink willy with oversize balls. It was the first and only one where we used wool for a more 'realistic' effect. We were really worried it wouldn't sell and when it did it only went for 99p. Not remotely worth if for the 6 hours work that went into it.

Over 100 piñatas later we still don't have a proper website (long story), We're at least starting to get the hang of the sales side of things and we're still having fun doing what we do best!

Our 50th piñata was the camper van (my favourite) the 100th was probably the red heart. Hopefully next year we'll have a big party somewhere and celebrate in style (11/4/13).

We did have a celebratory bottle of tequila stashed but we drank too much of that last weekend and we're still at the point where we're swearing we'll never do it again! Maybe we'll save it for next year.