Did I ever tell you about the time that I went crazy? Piñata crazy? Somehow this insane idea came up around the time of the boys' birthday party; since we were having an inside party, aka: not piñata appropriate, why not make mini-piñatas for all of our gift bags?
Why not? That's such a great question. I could give you so many reasons why... now. Agreeing to make eleven miniature piñatas, while working fulltime and being a fulltime parent was one of the most bizarre choices I've ever made. In the end, though, I am so glad that I spent all those hours covered in paper mache, if only for how proud of those piñatas the boys still are. Okay, I am proud of them too.
This year's birthday party theme was combination of zombies (Max's choice) and Cthulhu (Alex's choice). Did you know that Cthulhu piñatas are not widely available--even in Texas, where it is par-for-the-course for parents to buy Easter Bunny piñatas? Thanks for the Zombie Jesus Day presents, Bunny. WHACK. Yet it remains impossible to find piñatas of soul-eating Old Ones. Figures.
In the end, no piñatas were smashed on birthday party day. They all went home to live with new families, with candies carefully extracted from holes in their heads.
How we did it:
For these piñatas I used partially inflated balloons. We covered the ballons with two layers of paper mache. Not more, in order to preserve smashability. I once made three-ply piñatas, that had to be stomped on by adults, in order to crack. I learned my lesson.
I then painted the piñatas with appropriate base coats: white for zombies, green for Cthulhus. Once the paint was dry, I glued on concentric layers of fringed tissue paper, in order to create that special piñata texture. The boys drew the monster features, and I inked them in black and color, then glued them on.
Cthulhu's wings are made of craft foam, that was cut and glued to create three dimensionality; the wings were then hot glued to his body. His tentacles are made of tissue-covered green cardstock. Zombies' bloodies are strips of red tissue paper. I gave all of the zombies brains at the crown of the head by using shades of pink paper.
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