Beehive Papier-mâché Pinata

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Skill Level

Beginner

Time to Make

1 hour

Adult Supervision

Yes

Beehive Papier-mâché Pinata

Top Tip

Stand the balloon on a cup while you are sticking the tissue on and it won’t roll about.

How to Make

Beehive Papier-mâché Pinata
Beehive Papier-mâché Pinata
Beehive Papier-mâché Pinata
  1. Blow up a balloon and tie it off.
  2. Tear some orange tissue paper into strips of about 1 inch across.
  3. Mix up some PVA and water in equal parts.
  4. Paint the Glue onto your balloon in sections and stick on a strip of tissue paper.
  5. Repeat over the whole balloon until it has at least 7 layers of paper, pasting with glue in between each layer. Leave to dry overnight.
  6. To make the bees take two yellow woolly pom-poms and stick them together using strong glue. And let it dry.
  7. Next wrap a black pipe cleaner around the pompoms to make the stripes.
  8. Then cut a white pipe cleaner in half and wrap it around the middle and shape it into two little wings.
  9. Tie a length of elastic to each bee.
  10. Once your balloon is dry, pop the balloon at the top holding on to the tie and pull it out.
  11. Cut the top hole into a bigger circle so you can fill it with sweets or confetti.
  12. Next, cut strips of yellow and white tissue paper and cut frills into the strips.
  13. Stick the strips on in layers from the bottom up and allow to dry.
  14. Make two holes either side off the cut out circle and use ribbon or string so that you can hang it up.
  15. Stick the bees onto the hive with tape.
  16. Use a empty cardboard tube or similar to break the piñata.