I reckon you could make a pinata out of

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a paper lampshade? as i lookes at ds2s football one I reckon this owuld be a sinch

A paper lampshade sounds feasible. papier Mache round a big balloon?

yes messy tho

I just had the little pulina one for dd's birthday party - where you pull the streamers off the bottom rather than hit it - they all loved it!I was thinking it would be v. v. easy to make with a cardboard box and some strong tissue paper.

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am not mad twigelett

Doesn't the paper lampshade have a metal frame reinforcing it though?

yes
do you think too strong

As it only cost a fiver don't think I can be arsed tho!

really?
more expensiver here

Not sure it would break easily enough. Go with the papier mache. Or buy one.

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see www.partypieces.co.uk. It's the Pulina one

I have paper lampshades with thin cane (?) bits inside instead of wire - that would work?

Go on holiday to mexico or brazil or wherever they come from, for two weeks, and bring one home. That sounds the best way to me.

Oh Blu, of course that's the ideal solution, I don't know why nobody else thought of it

I saw pinatas for sale in asda a couple of weeks ago.

They also sell them in Urchin.

Buy a big balloon. Put stuff inside it and blow it up. Cover with paper mache. Pop balloon before paper has hardened completly. Paint and decorate.

My sister makes them this way and they're always fabulous.

The original pinata that really breaked, did so because it was made of terracota covered with paper, but you don't want to do that, having a blindfolded children trying to hit something with a long stick is already dangerous

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Ok I will ask.

What the hell is a pinata?

according to the latest trends anything made out of paper with sweets inside that you hang high enough for a child to break it with a stick, originally for Xmas.

you are not sad! it all depends ot he postage

My pinata story.....when we were in la we went to my friend's ds's bday party where they had a pinata (very common at children's bday parties in la...large hispanic community)...The pinata was an effigy of spiderman. Everyone happily whacked the thing with all their might. When it was my ds's turn he held the stick and looked at me. I tried to help him hit it (he was quite a bit younger than all the other kids). He burst into tears and said "mummy, but I don't want to hit spiderman."