This piñata turned out just as I intended...almost.
The wings are made from shirt hangers, and the membranes are sheets of crepe paper. The flame is colored tissue paper (red, orange, yellow, and white) layered together and then simply stuffed into the mouth. The eyes are painted ping pong balls. The hands are four-fingered claws shaped from shirt hangers which were wrapped in crepe paper and tipped with lethal card stock talons.
This piñata was made of many different parts assembled together -- the head, belly, tail, haunches, arms, and feet were all separate balloon pieces that were covered in papier mâché and then taped and papier mâchéd together. This was my most ambitious piñata up to that point, and I was happy with the way it turned out. The piñata stick was decorated to look like a sword. But the slaying of the dragon did not go as planned... |