My friends Felicity Fenton and Mike Hensley had a pinata party a few weekends ago to celebrate their brand new marriage which was tons of fun. A lof of people made pinatas which included a mini guitar filled with candy rings, a creepy mime looking guy, a jellyfish, and the bride and groom naked.
For mine, I put together a cow pinata using mostly what I had around. Here’s how to make it:
You will need:
- Small box (I used a double cereal box from Costco)
- A few sheets of plain white paper and a black marker
- Cottage cheese, 48oz
- Plastic grocery bag
- Ketchup, medium bottle
- Barbeque sauce, medium bottle
- Toilet paper rolls, 4
- Empty ‘Chinese food’ box
- Spaghetti and meatballs, about two cups
- Wire
- Tape
- Latex glove
- Half a pencil
- Milk
Directions
- Leaving one end open, cover the box in paper and draw spots on it.
- Draw spots on the toilet paper rolls. About 1/8 inch from the top of two of the legs, poke the wire through one side and up through the hole. Position the front legs on the body and push the wire up through the box and tie it together. Repeat for the back legs.
- Put a loop of wire through the middle of the cows back to tie off the cow. Wrap this around so there are a couple strands
- Fill the Chinese food box with spaghetti and meatballs. Place it like the head in the above picture, with the Chinese food box on the closed end of the box, and the wire handle on top of the cow’s back. Attach this to the box using the wire—two loops poking thru on the two corners of the Chinese food box’s corner.
- Fill the latex glove part of the way up with milk, then (this is kind of tricky) blow up the latex glove a little bit, and tie off the hole like a balloon.
- Poke a hole in the bottom of the cow big enough to fit the knot of the udder (the latex balloon). Push the knot through and tie the glove to the half of the pencil on the inside of the box.
- Place the plastic bag in the box and use the wire to attach it to several points of the box—these are ‘rip points’.
- Mix together the cottage cheese, ketchup and barbeque sauce ad pour it into the plastic bag
- Tie off the bag and close the open end of the box, take another piece of paper, tape it over the open end and draw spots and (optionally) a butt-hole
The smashing of the cow turned out pretty much as nicely as I could have expected. First the udder was smashed off splashing milk all over the girl who hit it (I warned her, don’t worry). Then the head was smashed off smearing spaghetti and meatballs all over the garage door. The only downside is that the body was finally just whacked into some bushes and it didn’t do that emptying of the bowels kind of dumping I was hoping for.
And apologies to Mike for the spaghetti sauce all over his shirt…
