Pinata Creation

For Sydney's school. project this month was to make their own pinata.  As soon as Sydney came home from school she announced that her pinata was going to be a peacock.  I am still not sure where her idea came from but she claims she wanted something different that no one else would choose.  And boy, was she dead on!

At first from my perspective, I was stumped at how we were going to pull this off.  But after one trip to the Dollar Store and $3 spent we came home with 2 colors of blue wrapping paper and one party decoration of a palm tree.

Sydney cut long strips of the wrapping paper and created fringe on the ends.  That is what we layered around the body of the bird.  Next she cut off the palm leaves and gave each one of them a blue dot on the tips.  Then we taped floral wire to the backs of the leaves to help the stay stand straight up.  We even used the trunk of the palm tree as the legs of the peacock.  And lastly for the head/neck of the bird she twisted up foil and covered it in more wrapping paper.

I was shocked at how quickly we put this pretty bird together!!!  Good job Sydney!!