How to make a piñata with less than 150 pesos?
In the inns, at Christmas parties and even on New Years, piñatas are widely used to celebrate every moment, at least in Mexico, so the vast majority celebrate it, in addition to dinner and traditional lunch.
According to Marco Polo, the origin of the pinatas It is in the New Year celebrations in China and its original form represented animals. The tradition traveled to Italy and, finally, to Mexico, where the friars used it as a tool for evangelization.
Within the origin, it is said, according to evidence, that the Mayans used to break clay containers filled with cocoa and the Mexicas filled clay pots with treasures and jewelry, decorated them with feathers and ribbons and broke them during festivities in honor the god Huitzilopochtli.
In these times, the piñatas are made from a clay pot, cardboard, and more current, with a balloon used as a mold, covered with colorful paper and filled with sweets, fruit, peanuts and toys, some break it with a stick and blindfolded and others simply with a fist and with their eyes uncovered.
Meaning
7 peaks, deadly sins: pride, greed, lust, anger, gluttony, envy and laziness.
Bright colors is the temptation.
Tinsel or brass sheets refer to the deceptions of the world.
Blindfolded is to remember that faith is blind.
The stick: it is the force and the virtue that destroy the deceptions and sins.
Sweets, fruits, peanuts and toys are the riches of the kingdom of heaven that are awarded as a reward for faith and perseverance.
Materials:
A balloon of the number 10 – 5 pesos
500 milliliters of water – 10 pesos
Half a kilo of wheat flour – 5 pesos
Newspaper – 20 pesos (each issue costs 5 pesos, the cheapest in Cancun or free in stores where they have leftover newspapers from past weeks)
7 Cardboard for spikes – 35 pesos (5 each or depending on the number of spikes)
Metallic paper – 35 pesos
Duct tape – 5 pesos
Crepe paper – 30 pesos
how to make a pinata
1.- Inflate the balloon to the size of the piñata you want, preferably large.
2.- Make the paste, mix water and flour and stir until it has a consistency similar to white glue.
3.- Once the paste is ready, gradually cover the balloon with the mixture and slowly cover the balloon with the strips of newspaper. It is advisable to cover the product with at least two layers of newspaper.
4.- Let the paste dry for at least a whole day under the sun’s rays.
5.- Once dry, place the seven peaks or cones, which are made with cardboard and with the same newspaper and paste, glue to the sphere and wait a few more hours for it to dry.
6.- After drying, it is time to prick the balloon with a needle, to leave a hole in the bottom, it is necessary to remove the already exploded balloon.
7.- At this point, you must be creative, it is time to decorate the piñata how you want and with the colors you want with crepe paper.
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