This a fun craft and party game, just don’t get too attached to your unicorn if you are planning on breaking it apart for sweets.
What you’ll need:
- A ballon
- Newspaper/a magazine/scrap paper
- Flour and water
- A large bowl
- PVA glue and scissors
- Tissue paper or streamers
- Gold and pink card
- Black paper/card
- String
- Sweets (optional)
What to do:
- Blow up the ballon and tie. Put in a mixing bowl to keep still.
- Make the paste by mixing one part flour with two parts water, mix well till it’s the consistency of double cream.
- Rip the paper into thin strips, dip both sides in the flour paste and place on the ballon. Repeat till ballon completely covered, apart from a small hole at the top to put in the sweets and attach the horn.
- Leave to dry in a warm place or with a hair dryer.
- Once it’s pretty much dry add another layer.
- Leave to dry.
- Once dry decorate.
- First make 2 ears out of gold and pink card, leave a tab to fold over and stick using PVA glue.
- Stick scrunched up white tissue paper using PVA glue to the front of the unicorn. Then cut rainbow strips from coloured paper and stick them to the back of the unicorn with PVA glue to make a mane.
- Add eyes and a nose using black paper, stick with PVA glue.
- Make a horn but rolling gold card into a cube and securing with glue and sellotape. You could also add extra beaded details if you want.
- Once it’s all dry pop the ballon inside, fill with sweets.
- Make 2 holes either side of the head a thread through string to hang up.
- Lastly stick on the horn using hot glue or PVA glue. You could also add some tissue oater flowers in front of the horn.
Ballon in bowl 
Flour paste 
Covering with paper mache 
More cornering 
Leaving to dry 
Adding tissue paper for the face 
More tissue paper 
First face with a pink nose 
Sticking the rainbow mane 
More sticking 
Hitting the piñata
Hints and tips:
– You could make the paper-mache paste by mixing PVA glue (instead of flour) with flour. But if you have babies who are likely to eat everything and don’t want too much mess then flour and water is safer.
– Scrunching up tissue paper and sticking it to the piñata looks good but takes forever and requires a lot of patience from your toddler. Using streamers folded over or shredded would be a lot quicker.
– When making holes for the string be careful not to place them too close to the horn hole as they will just rip when the piñata is hit.
– My daughter didn’t like getting her hands ‘dirty’ from the paste so we used a paintbrush to add the glue to the outside of the paper-Mache.
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