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| Okay, so the piñata ain't half as scary as the poster, but it's twice as festive, and that's what matters! |
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This piñata had two candy compartments, one in the braincase and one in the lower jaw. The skull's mouth was open, so candy would spill out of the lower compartment with each good whack. There was a small hole connecting the two compartments so that candy from the braincase could trickle down into the jaw to replace candy that was lost through the mouth. This design worked well, and the piñata trickled candy with each hit until one final blow spilled it all. The skull is just over 2 feet tall. The torches are each 4 1/2 feet long, and the Jack Sparrow voodoo doll is 11 inches tall. The color of the skull doesn't show that well in the pictures, but it was mostly white with splotches of cream colored "rot." |
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| This piñata turned out to be a lot more of a craft project than most. My wife made the Jack Sparrow voodoo doll (including the little vest) and I drew the face. My wife also made the blue piratess outfit shown above, and gave birth to the piratess herself. Accessorizing the piñata and doll with beads and feathers took far more time than it should have. Ordinarily I like to keep my piñata expenses dirt cheap, but with this one I had to go buy craft supplies. | ||||||||||||||||||
The top gold piece is cardboard decorated with fabric paint and then painted gold. The gold "bell" near the bottom was cut from an egg carton and painted gold. The Y-shaped bone/stick/whatever is a piece of stick I found in our backyard and painted red and black and gold. You can see the skull rot better in this close-up than you can in the earlier photo. |
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| The headband medallion was a flat wooden disk. I drew a raised design on it using fabric paint and then painted it gold. | ||||||||||||||||||
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The headband cloth was shredded in the back to look more piratey. The torches were first papier-mâchéd together, then decorated with crepe paper, and then "tied together" using raffia. They were then attached to the back of the skull using wires, and then more raffia was glued on to hide the wires. |
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