Piñata Mexican Fiesta Craft | Cinco de Mayo | Mexico Culture Classroom Decor

Fun year-round Mexican craftivity and Spanish classroom decor suitable for ALL artistic levels. Don’t miss out on this dinero saving bundle: MEXICO ACTIVITIES BUNDLE

★  2D Paper Piñata Craft 

Flat piñatas are a thing too! Cut the piñata parts and add color however you wish. If you want to make your piñatas super bonitas y tradicionales-looking…use colored-tissue paper in bits to mexicanize your design.

★ 3D Piñata Craft Decor

Need a more elaborate traditional ‘piñata navideña’ (Christmas piñata) for the ‘posada’ before Christmas? Simply print the piñata parts printable twice and fold each part in half and Ta-da!-for a half-3D piñata, i.e. flat on one side

Do this twice (total 4 copies printed) if you want to go the extra mile and make a full 360º 3D piñata.

New Day of the Dead project: Stained Glass Sugar Skulls

(AS REQUESTED) More detailed instructions for the Piñata Crafts have been added to this product:

STEP-BY-STEP INSTRUCTIONS

★ How to Make the 2D Paper Piñata Craft

1. Colour in your 2D template and cut out all the pieces. You should have one circle and five triangles.

2. Attach the five triangles spread around the edge of the circle.

Optional: Attach popsicle sticks to the back of the triangles for extra support.

3. Put the piñata together with the triangles spread around the circular shape.

4. Cut out the long rectangular pieces and attach them vertically to the end point of the triangles.

Optionally, punch a hole on your piñata to thread a piece of string to make it hangable, or alternatively, use tape to attach the string to the back of your piñata.

Mexican touch: If you want to make your piñatas super bonitas y tradicionales-looking…use bits of colored-tissue paper on your piñata craft.

★ How to Make the 3D Piñata Craft Decor

1. Colour in your template and cut out all the pieces. You should have two circles.

2. Fold all the triangles and 2 circles in half, then glue only one half of each piece and stick it to another piece of the same shape.

3. Put the piñata together with the triangles spread around the circular shape.

- The previous steps would make a half-3D piñata (flat on one side). For a full 3D piñata you would need to do this process twice and stick both flat-on-one-side piñatas together.

★ How to Make a 'fillable' piñata craft

1. Follow the instructions above to make the 2D Piñata Craft or the Half-3D Piñata craft.

2. Fold a paper plate in half, attach your piñata to it, and put one staple on each side to attach everything together. You’ve got a fillable piñata!

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★ Practice scissors skills, OR NOT!

This buenísima actividad Mexicana can be used with students of ANY artistic ability.

Want a zero-prep piñata activity? A scissors-free version is included, besides the other version with clear cutting guides. 

★ Bonus ★ Includes a Mexican piñata coloring page version :)

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Good for Spanish class at different moments of the year, and ready for an appearance in a Mexico Unit, Latin America Studies or Christmas around the world lesson.

★ So when do you do ‘Piñatas’?

Different moments of the year where this fun craftivity can become your Spanish bulletin board decorations are: Cinco de Mayo, Hispanic Heritage Month, Latinx Heritage Month, 16 de Septiembre (Mexico Independence Day), Fiestas Patrias de Septiembre, Dia de la Bandera, Dia de Muertos for the 1st of November (Allsaints, the day before Day of The Dead). December for traditional Mexican posadas before Navidad (Mexican Christmas activity).

And….

We suppose you could use the included Blank Piñata Templates to make a Feliz Cumpleaños card?

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► Spanish Classroom Decor for ALL YEAR LONG 

Adapt this Piñata craft project as part of your Spanish class activities throughout the year or for your Spanish classroom door decor. From Christmas piñatas to Hispanic heritage month, these can be adapted to whenever and wherever you need them.

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► An original Hispanic Heritage Month craftivity

Use this Mexican Piñata craft as one of your hispanic heritage month activities. 

Each student can design their own piñata paper plate craft, adding their own individual and original creative touch then they can be brought together as part of a Latinx American culture themed classroom bulletin board.

► Why is this resource useful?

• Early finishers activity in Spanish class
• Cutting practice and fine motor skills activity for kindergarten, K1, Preschool and PreK Classrooms.
• Excelente decoración de jardín de niños around Navidad and fiestas patrias.
• Spruce up your Spanish classroom decor
• Grow your collection of Spanish activities
• After-school club or Spanish club time-filler
• Complement a Mexico culture unit
• A low-prep Hispanic heritage month project 
• Create a colorful bulletin board or display
• Use as part of Christmas around the World lesson
• No prep fast color-in versions
• Mexico Independence Day Activity

Since this activity welcomes all levels of artistic skills, it has proven to be successful with students ranging from Pre-K, Kindergarten, Elementary up to Middle School and High School. The piñatas can be as simple or as complicated as each student chooses.

► WHAT'S INCLUDED

Letter-size PDF files in high resolution:

• Big Piñata printable - One page for the piñata’s centre part (15cm) and one page for the spikes (15cm long).
• Small Piñata printable (one page with 2 sets of 20cm piñatas)
• All sizes come in 4 different designs: ‘Viva México, Festive Star, Mexico Flags with space for your own text, and BLANK.
• Instructions and photos of finished examples

* Please see the preview before purchasing.

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