Activity Days activity

For Activity Days at church, we decided to make some Halloween pinatas.   I think the girls had a lot of fun and found out that all the girls like doing things with their hands, especially feeling the paste all over their hands.

The older girls were better organized and orderly with their methodology of putting together a pinata but both older and younger, the girls really enjoyed this messy project.

I'm so glad that my mom taught me how to make pinatas when I was a child and that we did them multiple times so that this project didn't feel so daunting.  It was actually fun.  I just had to get my paper torn and the paste made and a few more things done before the girls arrived for the activity.

And here they are at my home drying with their second layer of newspaper.  It looked like a I had a front room full of strange newspaper creatures.

And then came the paint which we did a week later.  It turns out the girls loved painting with their hands rather than the sponge brushes.  And since they were sure to get pretty messy using the brush, they just got a bit messier while painting with their hands.

Messy but happy!

This pinata didn't end up orange.  It was multi-colored with a lot of the colors being mixed together and still looked cute when she was done.

Here's a pumpkin pinata!

Here's a tie-tied spider with multiple colored legs!

And here's a purple spider with pink and red legs.  We also had a couple bats to make our Halloween Pinatas complete.