Making a Piñata!

     The boys love Curious George, and thanks to Netflix, there are a ridiculous amount of episodes available. There is one particular Curious George in which George and another kid whose name escapes me, make a piñata for Mother's Day. Ever since, Wyatt has been insistent that we make one. Now, he wanted me to attempt to make a donkey... but that wouldn't have gone well... so we went simple. Here is the steps I followed: http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Pi%C3%B1ata
 I got some balloons and we blew one up. Then, we covered it with newspaper strips dipped in  a flour, water, and salt mixture, and stuck them to the balloon. Then it had to dry for a few days because they weren't great at the removing some moisture before putting it on the balloon part.

Next, we painted it to try to make it a more even color and texture before we put our colored tissue paper on. After we painted it, it dried for another day. 

 When that was dry, we hung our piñata up and used glue and some paint brushes and decorated it with colored tissue paper! We didn't really mean to, but it ended up looking like an Easter egg without even trying! Once it was dry, we added some candy in, poked two holes on either side of the opening and tied string to it.

Then we took it to the park around the corner, tied it up on the monkey bars, and had fun! They loved it! We're definitely going to try again sometime with something a bit more difficult than an egg! Haha!