How Do You Make Birthday Pinatas?
A pinata adds fun and excitement to an event, and building your own pinata is a great way to get started. Give yourself plenty of time to create your pinata, since it can take a few days to complete. Tear the newspaper into many small strips, about one inch wide and about four inches long. Put them aside. Mix the flour and water with a small amount of school glue. Exact proportions will not make a difference in the quality of the paste, as long as the result is fairly thin. Be sure to stir out all the lumps in the flour. Blow up the balloon. This will form the interior of your pinata, so make sure you blow the balloon up as far as possible without popping it, then tie it off. Dip each strip of newspaper into the paste, and then lay it carefully on the balloon. When you have coated the entire balloon, set it aside to dry. When the pinata’s first layer has dried (this may take several hours), do a second layer. Repeat this and the previous step four or five times in order to make a stron
