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Shark Piñata

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Shark 01

This was one of my earliest piñatas – I had only made the Ghost and Bat and two Heart piñatas before this. 

This was a big step up from the ones that came before, and I learned a lot by making new mistakes.

The shark piñata was my one and only attempt to use a wire frame. It was harder to work with wire than I expected. Maybe I’m just not a very good wire artist, but the proportions of the finished shark weren’t what I hoped they would be.

The frame was wrapped in newspaper and covered with papier mâché. The mouth was covered with a piece of poster board. These are the only photos I took until the piñata was complete. 

 was going for a sleeker look, so I covered the shark in flat layers of white crepe paper instead of snipping and fluffing the crepe paper.

Don’t eat that hippie, you’ll get sick!

Don’t eat that hippie, you’ll get sick!

I wasn’t terribly happy with the result – in particular I didn’t think the dorsal fin and the tail looked very good. And although the photos don’t show it, I used different rolls of white crepe paper and you could see the different shades of white on the shark.

But all these little shortcomings didn’t deter the kids for a second…

Shark 07

…and once there was blood in the water it turned into a beating frenzy.

This party was before I made a new stick for every piñata – that poor shark is getting beaten up with a Barbie piñata stick.

 

Kerry delivers the fatal blow.

The kids had a great time killing the shark, but I never used a wire frame again. When I made my dolphin piñata, I used three balloons to form the body, and ended up with better shape and proportions.

I have also been careful ever since the shark to make sure that when I want a uniform color, all my crepe paper is the same shade, especially when it’s black or white.

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