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Gold at the End of the Mini Rainbow Piñatas

March 5, 2015 ·

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I LOVE rainbows! I love them! I always have. It’s like colorful happiness just appearing in the sky magically! I know it’s not magic and is actually science and I also know there are not nearly enough of them happening in my life.

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I also think that I should celebrate St. Patrick’s day a little better seeing as how it’s kind of a rainbow holiday! In all seriousness, I definitely plan to when Stella gets a little older, little green footprints left by the leprechaun and everything! For now, though, we have pinatas! I’ve deemed them suitable for any age {because I love them still} so this is a St. Patrick’s day activity/craft that I can do all by myself without little kids to validate it.

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These ones are pull piñatas which I love because you get all the goodies while leaving your cute work still in tact. I filled mine with all gold goodies so it would be like a gold at the end of the rainbow thing since it’s St. Patty’s Day time but you can fill yours with all the colors of the rainbow, or absolutely whatever you want!!

Mini rainbow pinatas for your St Patrick's day! Fill With gold things and find the gold at the end of the rainbow | A Joyful Riot

 

    Materials

  • Cardboard //
  • Template //
  • Hot glue gun or tape //
  • Tissue paper in all the colors of the rainbow //
  • Twine //
  • Scissors //
  • Xacto Knife (optional) //
  • Fillings

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1. Use the template to cut two arches and two squares from cardboard per pinata. Also cut a long strip and a short strip however wide you want your pinatas to be.

2. Use Xacto knife (or any knife or scissors) to cut the insides out of the squares, leaving an opening at least as big as your biggest fillings.

3. Assemble all of your pinata except the second archway. I recently discovered that a hot glue gun is the ideal tool for assembling pinatas (and everything else in life, am I right?!)

4. Cut squares a little smaller than the cardboard ones form card stock paper.

5. Poke holes in the middle of the card stock squares, thread twine through them and tape them to the insides of the squares.

6. Put these squares in the inside of the pinata with the strings going out from the holes.

Mini rainbow pinatas for your St Patrick's day! Fill With gold things and find the gold at the end of the rainbow | A Joyful Riot7. Fill your pinatas with goodies, candy and confetti!

8. Attach the other archway.

9. I love the look of classic fringe pinatas but I decided to do something a little different for this one. I cut a bunch of squares and pinched them in from the middle.

10. Attach them all around the piñata, red on top, purple underneath, white all around the bottoms and the other colors in archways in between.

11. Glue a loop of twine on top if you want it to hang .

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I also attached little gold hearts to the end of the pull strings.

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Just tug on the strings to pull the paper squares out and release the joy within!

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I cannot wait to have kids old enough to make the holidays even more exciting! Until then, I’ll just keep refilling these bad boys and having my own fun! And of course quickly picking it all up because everything that fits in these are choke hazards…

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Posted by Machelle / Filed In: Crafts, Party Crafts, St. Patrick's Day
Tagged: stpatrick

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