This is for a princess party. I can’t find any images that are really what I’m looking for. Do you have something fabulous? Any ideas would be appreciated.
Answer from Piñata Boy
Normally what you want for a piñata is something with bulk or volume, since you need to full it with candy. A lightweight princess crown or tiara doesn’t have the bulk of a king’s crown like on the old Imperial Margarine commercials, so it’s hard to balance the delicate nature of a princess crown with the need for fillable volume in a piñata.
One approach you might try is to make a large tiara out of thin cardboard, and give it a solid flat bottom. Then blow up a balloon or punch ball to the point where it just fits inside the crown from the top. Cover the punch ball with a few layers of papier mâché, and when it’s dry cut off the top of the papier mâché punch ball and set the rest inside the crown to serve as a convex top — the inside of the papier mâché punch ball becomes the outside of the top of the crown. You’ll need to cut around the edges of the papier mâché punch ball to make it match up with the edges of the crown, but this will give you some trapped volume inside the crown that you can fill with candy, without giving a lot of visible bulk to the crown and turning your princess into a king.
Good luck!