So you know how everyone loves Pokemon, either from playing Pokemon when they were young or from the augmented reality game Pokemon Go? And who can resist all the little Pokemon characters?? (guess what my favorite character is).
Also, I know most pinatas are filled with candy, but a really cool idea would be to put a stuffed Pokemon in the pinata. That way, when the pinata breaks open, a Pokemon will be released!
Anyways, I hope you guys give this a try, either for a party or just for decoration, and let me know in the comments below what your favorite Pokemon is!
YouTube video:
DIY Pokéball Piñata
Materials (you can get all of these materials from the dollar tree, though the newspaper is usually free):
- newspaper
- beach ball
- red/white/black party streamers
- white/black paper
- string/ribbon
- marker
- glue
- scissors
Glue Mixture #1 (I tried this, but it didn't work out very well, so I recommend using Glue Mixture #2)
- water
- glue
Glue Mixture #2 (I used this one)
- 1 cup water
- 1 cup flour
- 1 tbsp salt
Instructions:
- Inflate your beach ball (or mold)
- Cut the newspaper into strips
- Mix all the ingredients for the glue mixture together into a bowl (preferably disposable bowl)
- Start layering the newspaper onto the mold by dipping the newspaper strips into the glue mixture and placing it onto the mold, making sure to get all the spots except for the top of the inflatable ball where you will release the air in the ball to take out the mold. Also, make sure to overlap the newspaper so that the pinata will stay together.
- You will need 3-4 layers of newspaper, depending on how hard you want the pinata to be. After each layer, be sure to let the newspaper dry (~1-3 hours; it doesn't have to be completely dry)
- After all the layers are glued onto the mold, let it dry COMPLETELY (overnight is best)
- Deflate your mold and carefully remove the mold from the newspaper. You can cut the hole at the top with scissors to make the hole bigger since that's going to be where you put the candy in and so it's easier to take the mold out.
- Mark the center of the pinata and draw a line around the middle. This will be where the Pokeball black stripe will be.
- Take the white and red party streamers, unroll the rolls of party streamer, and create layers of the streamers by folding them on top of themselves.
- Cut the layers of streamers width-wise only until the middle of the width, do NOT cut all the way through.
- Once you have cut a good amount of the streamers, starting from the bottom of the pinata (other side of the hole), start with the white and use glue to glue the cut streamers onto the pinata. Make sure to have the frilly parts of the cut streamer facing up. After you complete an entire round around the pinata, cut the steamer all the way and start a new round. Also, be sure to overlap the streamers on top of one another (I like to use the middle of the cut streamer as a guide to where to position the next streamer). (Sorry, it's kind of difficult to explain in words, the video will make a lot more sense)
- Once you get to the line that you made earlier that denotes the middle of the pinata, flip the pinata over so that it's upright, and keep laying the streamers, but with the red color.
- Once you get to the top, you can make a cover for the hole with the red streamer by creating a 'cap' that is big enough to cover the hole (you might need to glue pieces of red streamer together to make the cover big enough).
- Poke two holes near the hole at the top of the pinata. Then thread the string/ribbon through the two holes that you just made and tie a knot on the inside of the pinata, securing its length.
- Put whatever you want into the pinata, and cover with the cap you made in step 13.
- Take the black streamer and measure out how wide you want the pokeball strip in the middle to be.
- Glue the black streamer where the white streamer meets the red all the way around the pinata.
- Measure the size of the pokeball button (the black ring around the button). I used a CeraVe moisturizing container. Then, trace the measurement onto a piece of black paper (I used the black streamer) and cut it out.
- Measure another circle that fits inside the black circle (I used a cup). Then, trace the circle onto some white paper and cut it out.
- On the white circle, draw a smaller circle with a black marker. I used a small dessert cup that I *think* I got from CN tower in Toronto, Canada (unnecessary information). This white circle with a black line is the button on the pokeball.
- Glue the white circle onto the middle of the black circle.
- Glue the black circle onto the pinata somewhere on the black strip.
- And you're done! If you want, you can touch up the frills of the pinata with some scissors.
I hope this wasn't too confusing, but if it was, the video will make a lot more sense. Or, you could comment down below if you have any questions. :)
Note: You can use this technique to make any pinata you want. You can make other kinds of pokeballs, like a great ball or a master ball, with different color streamers (you can even use tissue paper). Or, you can create whatever you want, like a pencil pinata by using one of those long balloons that people twist into shapes instead of a spherical balloon or inflatable ball. The only catch is that you need to be able to either pop or take the mold out of the dried newspaper, so using an inflatable donut won't work very well.