How to make a pumpkin Pinata

You make a pumpkin piñata to celebrate the fall season. This technique manipulates a large punch balloon in a pumpkin shape, and then used a simple paper mache method to cover it. You can create a beautiful ombre effect with different shades of orange tissue paper, and you have a one-of-a-kind decoration for your autumn celebrations.

step 1: Turn the balloon Inside Out
Start by turning on the punch balloon from the inside. The balloon is attached with a rubber band. So you have to turn the rubber band is sticking out on the inside, with its end out of the balloon in the mouth.

step 3: Wrap rubber bands Around the balloon
Wrap rubber bands around the balloon, to force it even more into a pumpkin shape. Start by wrapping a band around the balloon, the balloon in two halves. Then insert another tape in the opposite direction, forming an "x", Hold rubber bands, until all six bands are evenly distributed over the balloon, creating sections, like an orange. Set aside the balloon.

step 5: you newspaper paper In strips
a whole section in the newspaper (about five full sheets) and cut it into 2-by-3-inch strips. Then use more newspaper to cover the work area.

step 7: the papier - mâché
Dip one newspaper strip into the paper mache paste and scrap the excess off with the side of the container or the fingers. You place the strip on the top of the balloon. Continue this process, overlapping the strips about 1/2 inch until the balloon is completely covered with newspaper. Then add a second layer of newspaper strips.

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step 8 Drilled a pumpkin: Hang to Dry
if you are completed, make two layers of newspaper, hang them to dry on the balloon overnight. Once dry, add make a third layer, and then hang to dry for a further 24 hours. Three levels of do are needed for this piñata.

Don ' T let the balloon in the hot sun to dry, or the balloon and pop. If you work outdoors, hang the balloon in the shadows.
step 9: Cut tissue paper Into strips
While the paper mache dries, cut the tissue paper into strips of fringe. Start by a piece the darkest shade of orange and fold it in half vertically, and fold it in half again horizontally. Then you start at the horizontal fold and cut the entire sheet into 2 1/2-inch strips.

step 11: Make a Patch
fold the other piece of dark orange tissue paper in half and then in half again, so that it is four layers thick. Trace circles on a compact disc, on the tissue paper and cut it out, so there are four separate tissue.

step 13: Cut Small Fringe piece
two strips of the dark orange fringe into several smaller pieces about 3 to 4 inches long. Then lay it flat on the work surface. You use a brush, add glue to the uncut end of each strip.



The supply list calls for two pieces of tissue paper per color. Start by cutting a piece of fabric, and put the others aside just in case you run.
step 16: Add a filling hole
Before you, with the fourth hue of orange, stop and add a fill hole. Use a utility knife to cut a square hole of about 2-by-3-inch in the top of the pumpkin shape, just over the edge. Cut out three sides of the hole and fold back the fitted wall. If it is not already, the balloon inside pop.

step 18: Create a wire Hanging loop
Use a long piece of floral wire and thread through the holes, so that a bracket on the 3 points. Enter through the fill hole and put the wire through the first hanger hole. Pull about 12 inches of the wire and the thread back down in the pumpkin, the loop of a small wire. Furthermore, of the wire threading through the remaining two sets of holes, up to three small wire loops to attach the strap. Twist the wire ends together and cut off the excess.



step 20: place the fringe
At this point, fill the pumpkin with treats and prizes. Close the filling hole door and continue to place the final color of the fringe strips over the rest of the pumpkin shape, including the filling of holes and hanger. The work of the fringe all the way up to the root, you will need to cut the strips into smaller pieces to cover the top part of the pumpkin.




step 25: and Enjoy
Hang the piñata from a sturdy tree branch with fishing line and fun, you flipped open!

what you Need

• Large punch balloon
• 6 large rubber bands, 7-inch file-size
• ruler or measuring tape
• all-purpose flour
• salt
• Mixing spoon
• the Container
• newspaper & nbsp
• scissors
• Cooking oil spray
• Orange tissue paper (in 4 different colours, 2 sheets per color)

• Green tissue paper, 1 sheet
• Compact disc
• pencil
• White glue
• Flat brush, medium, large
• Flat container (like a glass lid)
• knife
• floral wire
• Thin cardboard (like a cereal box)
• Clear tape
• fishing

step 2: the balloon
press and Hold on the rubber band with your fingers and you blow the balloon up to 11 inches in diameter. You pull the rubber band as tightly as possible, and tie the balloon, and tape. The tension of the tape in the balloon is with violence in a pumpkin shape.

step 5: you newspaper paper In strips
a whole section in the newspaper (about five full sheets) and cut it into 2-by-3-inch strips. Then use more newspaper to cover the work area.

step 7: the papier - mache
Dip one newspaper strip into the paper mache paste and scrap the excess off with the side of the container or the fingers. You place the strip on the top of the balloon. Continue this process, overlapping the strips about 1/2 inch until the balloon is completely covered with newspaper. Then add a second layer of newspaper strips.

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step 8 Drilled a pumpkin: Hang to Dry
if you are completed, make two layers of newspaper, hang them to dry on the balloon overnight. Once dry, add make a third layer, and then hang to dry for a further 24 hours. Three levels of do are needed for this piñata.

Don ' T let the balloon in the hot sun to dry, or the balloon and pop. If you work outdoors, hang the balloon in the shadows.
step 9: Cut tissue paper Into strips
While the paper mache dries, cut the tissue paper into strips of fringe. Start by a piece the darkest shade of orange and fold it in half vertically, and fold it in half again horizontally. Then you start at the horizontal fold and cut the entire sheet into 2 1/2-inch strips.

step 11: Make a Patch
fold the other piece of dark orange tissue paper in half and then in half again, so that it is four layers thick. Trace circles on a compact disc, on the tissue paper and cut it out, so there are four separate tissue.

step 13: Cut Small Fringe piece
two strips of the dark orange fringe into several smaller pieces about 3 to 4 inches long. Then lay it flat on the work surface. You use a brush, add glue to the uncut end of each strip.



The supply list calls for two pieces of tissue paper per color. Start by cutting a piece of fabric, and put the others aside just in case you run.
step 16: Add a filling hole
Before you, with the fourth hue of orange, stop and add a fill hole. Use a utility knife to cut a square hole of about 2-by-3-inch in the top of the pumpkin shape, just over the edge. Cut out three sides of the hole and fold back the fitted wall. If it is not already, the balloon inside pop.

step 18: Create a wire Hanging loop
Use a long piece of floral wire and thread through the holes, so that a bracket on the 3 points. Enter through the fill hole and put the wire through the first hanger hole. Pull about 12 inches of the wire and the thread back down in the pumpkin, the loop of a small wire. Furthermore, of the wire threading through the remaining two sets of holes, up to three small wire loops to attach the strap. Twist the wire ends together and cut off the excess.



step 20: place the fringe
At this point, fill the pumpkin with treats and prizes. Close the filling hole door and continue to place the final color of the fringe strips over the rest of the pumpkin shape, including the filling of holes and hanger. The work of the fringe all the way up to the root, you will need to cut the strips into smaller pieces to cover the top part of the pumpkin.




step 25: and Enjoy
Hang the piñata from a sturdy tree branch with fishing line and fun, you flipped open!

How to make a pumpkin Pinata

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