Piñata with own hands: master class with photo and video

How to make a piñata with your own hands

The choice of a gift, especially for a child, is traditionallycauses a sea of doubt. However, there is one non-trivial version of the presentation, which will certainly affect not only the baby, but also the adult. It is a piñata, home to which is far sultry Mexico. Amazing big toy with cavity inside acts not only as a wonderful gift, in which you can hide sweets, confetti or toys. Bright piñata, decorated with ribbons or corrugated paper, is also everything else and a wonderful decor of the holiday. And, to make it at home is quite simple.

Necessary tools and materials

Piñata is made by hand from the most common materials. Nothing rare and expensive for such crafts for a birthday or other holiday will not be required.

For the manufacture of piñata, it is necessary to prepare a paste, a balloon that can be inflated to large sizes, newspapers or old sheets of paper. You will also need to create a piñata:

glue PVA or other variety;

twine or a narrow satin ribbon for fastening;

Corrugated paper of suitable shade;

awl;

scissors.

Since the basis for piñata is often made from papier-mâché, a clerical knife may be needed. They will cut through the cavity in the ball for the "filling" of the gift.

On a note! It should be borne in mind that each master class for the creation of a piñata for a birthday or other celebration is individual. That's why for every craft, the list of necessary materials is made up a new one.

As for filling the piñata, then you can fantasize. Often the craft is filled with sweets, tinsel, confetti, sweets, small souvenirs, toys.

Master class for making piñata with your own hands

There are a great many options for making piñata. However, always the very process of creating a product captivates and turns into a real holiday.

Master class for making a round piñata

Birthday or other celebration will be moreunusual and cheerful, if you decorate it with a piñata. By the way, making such a toy with their own hands is quite simple. To make a simple round, but very funny and beautiful piñata, you should prepare the following materials and tools:

tape or tape;

latex ball at 36 inches;

hand pump for him;

a pair of wooden skewers;

Glue PVA or water with flour to create a paste;

newspapers;

scissors;

thread;

colored paper;

candy and confetti for piñata filling.

The principle of creating a circular piñata is quite simple. If you use the proposed master class with a photo, then there will be no problems at all.

To begin with, pump a balloon. The resulting ball must be tied with threads.

Now you need to create a skeleton for the piñata. To do this, use PVA glue or make a paste based on flour and water. Newspapers are cut into small strips. The optimal width is 5 cm. Each blank from the newspaper is dropped into glue (paste) and glued to the balloon. In total it is necessary to glue 3 layers of strips to make a frame for piñate from papier-mâché. But before applying a new layer, you should wait for the drying of the previous row.

When the whole frame of the piñata is dry, the tail of the ball should be incised. This will blow off the ball and easily extract it outward.

Next, you need to fill the piñata with small toys,paper colored pieces, sweets. Then it is necessary to form a fastener so that the finished product can be suspended. For this, an X-shaped lock is formed from the skewers and tape. In the center of the element, you need to glue a thread or a thin satin ribbon. The received holder for the ball must be pushed into the cavity of the piñata. The hole must be sealed with strips of newspaper, and the thread is pulled out.

Then, you need to cut a lot of small triangles from colored paper.

Now you need to glue the paper triangles to the papier-mache for pinyata. Stick them from the middle. For ease of use it is recommended to use an adhesive gun.

Ready piñate should be hung. It will become an original decoration of any holiday: weddings, birthday, parties.

Master-class on making pinyatas with cones

Extremely beautiful and original lookspiñata, supplemented by cones. Such a bright gift-decoration - a real extravaganza of colors and presents. The attractiveness of such a decor is also that it is not difficult to make it with your own hands.

For this craft, you need:

7-8 sheets of thick enough cardboard;

thin crepe-paper;

PVA glue;

water;

Scotch;

flour;

scissors;

thick rope;

stationery knife;

balloon;

twine;

newspapers.

How to make a piñata with your own hands

Based on the master step, you can start working. The piñata is made by own hands in several steps.

First you need to make a case for piñata. It is necessary to inflate the ball, tie it with a thread, glue a strip of scotch on the tail, so that no protruding fragments remain.

Now we need to make a mixture based on water and flour. The ratio is 1: 1. The paste will get thick.

The newspaper should be cut into strips and soaked in the resulting composition of flour and water. They must be glued to the ball.

The ball should be suspended and continue to create papier-mâché. The first layer should dry. Then you need to glue the second layer of newspapers, and then - and the third. The workpiece should be left until completely dry.

Now you need to make cones from cardboard.

On the cardboard, draw templates for the cones. They are cut from cardboard, folded, fixed at the joints with adhesive tape.

On the workpiece of papier-mâché it is necessary to make a hole. The air should be released from the ball.

The circle must be carefully cut with scissors. Its diameter should be slightly less than the cone of cardboard itself. The ball must be removed from the blown ball.

Now with a clerical knife you should create a hole on the opposite side. The rope is connected by a double knot and is slit into the hole.

Piñata is filled with sweets. The hole closes and is additionally fixed with an adhesive tape.

To the body of the piñata glue cones from cardboard are fixed. To give strength, you can also fix them with tape.

Fixes as many cones as necessary according to the plan.

That's what it turns out.

Next, you need to make a decor for pinyata made of crepe paper. It is cut into strips, on which a fringe is made with scissors. On the upper contour of the workpiece, apply a thin layer of glue.

The resulting decor turns the base of the body piñata. The fringe must look down. Then another layer of paper decor is fixed.

It is necessary to continue decorating the skeleton of the piñata.

Now it should be decorated with paper strips with fringed cones. But for this it is recommended to use workpieces with a fringe of shorter length.

That's all! Original volumetric colored piñata with cones is ready!

Master-class on the creation of a minion piñata

Original and funny will be a piñata,executed in the form of a minion. If it is decided to make a round "hero", you can use the usual balloon. To obtain an elongated body, you need to take two balls.

So, first you need to inflate 2 balloons and pin them together. To do this, they simply wrapped paper on top, which is fixed with strips of tape.

Now you need to cut the newspaper in small pieces and pasted them with the resulting design. The first layer of cuts is fixed on water. Two other rows are superimposed on the paste.

Then it is necessary to cut through a stationery knifea window in a papier-mache construction. Balls are extracted through it. This is also the filling for the piñata. As a filling, you can use sweets, small souvenirs, confetti, various surprises.

Then the piñata should be painted with yellow paint. It is possible to cover the case with yellow corrugated paper. If desired, fringe is made on it. The window should be sealed with the image of the eye of the minion. The picture is printed on the printer.