To make the horns, we made two cones out of white paper.  We used 11 x 17 sheets so we would have plenty of paper to work with, and we put Scotch tape on the seams to hold the cones together.  Then we stuffed each cone with cotton balls up to about the height she wanted the horns to be.  Then we crunched the cones in our hands and curved them slightly so they'd look more like horns and not simply like cones.  Crunching the horns made them all wrinkled and collapsed-looking, so we wrapped them in white yarn to give them a smoother shape and also to give them a different texture from the rest of the piñata.  To do this, we ran lines of Elmer's glue all up and down the horns and then wound the yarn all the way up and then all the way back down the horn.  Then we put on more lines of glue and wound the yarn up and down again.  Piñata Girl decided that three layers (up and down) of yarn gave her the thickness she wanted for the horns, so we stopped there.

 

This is Piñata Girl's first piñata!  She's 11 years old.  She made this for her sister after reading the tips and instructions on this web site.  She called it a Vampire Smiley, but after adding the horns, it looked more like a Demon Smiley.  It's made from a single balloon.  The mouth and teeth are made of felt. The eyes and eyebrows are made using the floral technique for decorating with crepe paper.  The horns had her stumped, and that's when she came to Piñata Boy for help.  It's nice to be needed once in a while.