Rather than buying a generic princess pinata, I wanted to figure out how to make a Tangled pinata. I love that the materials are mostly things I have at home already!
Tutorial...
I started with searching the house for an appropriately-sized circle. The glass bowl is 10.5 inches in diameter.
I rolled it a couple of times.
Then, I attached the softened cardboard to the circular base with clear packing tape. My pinata's now 18 inches tall.
Here's what it looks like flipped over. I cut a notch so I could fill the pinata with candy later. I also like filling pinatas with things like stickers, small (and soft!) toys, and band-aids. Band-aids are huge in my house.
I cut a slightly larger circle (12.5 inches) and attached it with tape. I put some tape X's across the top. I just kinda like using the tape gun.
I attached a 6-inch tall piece of softened cardboard to the larger of the circles.
Then, I topped it with a second of the larger circles.
I cut a hole in the top so I could string the rope through.
I made a cone shape by making a big circle, softened the cardboard, cut a radius (outside to center), and shaped it into a cone. This part was the most annoying. I strung the rope through the top of the cone.
I covered the base of the tower in white tissue paper and the top in purple using plain old Elmer's Glue. I wanted to make sure that you wouldn't see any cardboard if the crepe paper moved.
I wrapped the base in white tissue paper. I cut 3/4 of the way through each row to look more like tile.
The bottom was visible so I ruffled the crepe paper a little.
Here's the base covered. Now, go pick up your children from preschool and finish the rest tomorrow.
Next, I decorated the tower with vines and flowers.
It's done!
I covered the purple tissue paper with purple crepe paper by ruffling the rows a little.
Here's what it looks like covered.
