Need a quick, easy, and budget friendly piñata to add to your Winnie the Pooh, Baby Gender Reveal, or Bumblebee party? Read through for an easy how-to guide with step by step instructions.
Feel free to improvise or use other materials if you don’t have these around.
WHAT YOU’LL NEED
THE SUPPLIES:
- One Small Box
- Yellow Tissue Paper
- Yellow (or Gold) Ribbon
- Paper Bumblebees (optional). If you’d like to print out an image instead of drawing one, you can use the one we created for your own personal use: Winnie the Pooh Printables
- Paper Beehive. If you’d like to print out an image instead of drawing one, you can use the one we created for your own personal use: Winnie the Pooh Printables
THE TOOLS:
- Scissors
- Box Cutter
- Tape or Glue
STEPS
Step 1: Wrap the Box
Wrap most of the box in the tissue paper. You could wrap the entire box but then you’d have to mess with cutting out the bottom again. It’s easiest to leave the bottom part somewhat unwrapped since you will need to work with it when adding the ribbon/string
Step 2: Add the top ribbon (to hold the piñata)
Using your box cutter (or scissors), poke a hole in the middle of the top of the box. Next, cut out a piece of long string (this will be the string that “holds” the piñata from it’s hanging spot). Thread a piece of your string through the top and tie the bottom in a knot OR use some tape to ensure the ribbon doesn’t pull through OR both to make it more secure. If desired, tie the string into a loop – otherwise, leave as a single string to tie around a tree branch or other high up area.
Step 3: Create the Bottom Flap
If you are not using the open flaps of the box as the bottom, you will need to cut a flap for an opening. If you have a box cutter, this will make the cut cleaner & easier to work with.
Step 4: Add the strings
Cut out a few lengths of string. Generally, I make them about 2ft in length and make about 3 per child/guest.
Cut one string slightly longer than the others – this will be the “winning string”. Open up one of the bottom flaps and attach the string to that end. One or two pieces of tape should do it. When someone pulls this string, it should open the flap and out comes all the candy!!!
Using a small piece of tape, affix an end of the string to bottom of the box. Generally, the ribbons should be added closely together to make it difficult for kids to figure out which string to pull but not with their tape overlapping.
Step 5: Decorate the piñata
Draw or print out a beehive image and glue it to the box. While we did create a beehive image for the party, we drew one on yellow construction paper for the piñata. Beehives don’t have to be perfectly symmetrical, so hand drawing one isn’t so bad 🙂 We used our larger bumblebees and glued a few to the front as well.
Step 6: Fill the piñata
We actually did not fill the piñata with too much candy this time around. We filled it with some yellow craft pom poms as well as some smaller printed bumblebees. We glued them to yellow construction paper to make them sturdier though you could also use a specific color if you’re using this for a gender reveal party. On the backs of the bumblebees, we wrote a # which the kids could then trade in for the corresponding # of pieces of candy or toy – their choice 😉
Step 7: The finished product!
Now that the piñata has been filled up, all that’s left is to to tape the bottom flaps together – you may need a few strips of tape depending on your box. You can also optionally wrap the bottom in yellow as well. But that’s it! Now you have a well-themed piñata for your party!
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