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Make a Robot Pinata


How to make a Robot Pinata

robot pinata

Set Up

  1. Gather your materials: 
  • cereal box, 
  • silver spray paint, 
  • two paper towel tubes, 
  • 4 small pie tins, 
  • 2 styrofoam bowls, 
  • 2 googly eyes, 
  • black craft foam, 
  • 2 clothes pins, 
  • 6 pieces silver pipe cleaners, 
  • hot glue gun and hot glue, 
  • masking tape, and 
  • decorations for the robot.
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Tips

  • Use a cereal box for a whack and bash pinata and use a cardboard box for a pull and yank pinata. 

The Process

  1. Spray paint the box, paper towel tubes, backs of the bowls and the clothes pins silver. 
  2. Hot glue two of the small pie tins together to make a wheel for the robot. Then hot glue the other two pie tins together for the other wheel.
  3. Poke a hole in the tops of the wheels (one hole in each pie tin) and lace a pipe cleaner through each wheel. Poke two holes for each wheel at the bottom of the cereal box, toward the outside edges of the box, and push the pipe cleaners through those holes and twist together inside the box. The wheels may hang a little loose but should be fine.
  4. Cut halfway through the paper towel tubes to create elbow joints for the arms. Then bend them. 
  5. Poke one hole at the top of each tube and two holes close together in the sides of the box for the arms to be attached.
  6. Attach the arms with pipe cleaners by running the pipe cleaner through the hole in the paper towel tube and one end of the pipe cleaner into each of the holes on the side of the box. Twist the ends of the pipe cleaner together inside the box. Repeat for the arm on the other side. 
  7. Attach another pipe cleaner at the top of each arm to run down the center of the arm. Snap the hands (clothes pins) to the pipe cleaner in the arm so that the ends of the clothes pins poke out. It should be starting to look like a robot pinata at this point.
  8. Poke holes in the side of the pinata and run string through it, about an inch from the top. If using a cereal box first place two strips of masking tape on the inside of the box where the holes will be so the string won’t rip through the box while it is hanging.
  9. Make the face on the back of a styrofoam bowl by gluing on two googly eyes, a diamond nose and mouth cut from the black craft foam. Then glue the two bowls together
    robot pinata head attachment
10. Cut the a hole in the top of the cereal box for the head to sit in. It should be about 3
     inches wide and 1/2 an inch deep.
11. Fill the pinata.
12. Hot glue the lid shut.
13. Set the head in the hole and draw a line where it matches up with the box. Apply hot
     glue to the line and attach the head. 
14. Attach decorations. You may use button graphics or electrical tape for stripes. Make
     your robot pinata your own design.
15. Hooray! Your robot pinata is ready to be broken apart!

Tips

  • Use string or ribbon or even bias tape for the pinata hangar. Avoid using yarn or elastic. If using a thin string like kite string you will want to double each string.
  • Use one end of scissors or the point of a sharp knife to poke holes where appropriate. 
  • If the elbow joints don't cut smoothly, it's okay. Just trim off any rough edges with your scissors.
  • If the head seems a little loose, try putting in a small wad of aluminum foil to tighten how it sits in the pinata.

 

Pull and Yank Adjustments 

Trap Door Pinata

  1. Cut a trap door in the bottom of the pinata. Poke a hole in the trap door and tie a ribbon to the trap door that will be able to pull it open.
  2. Fill the pinata and seal the trap door with masking tape. Test it to be sure there’s enough tape to hold all the prizes in the pinata, but not so much tape that it won’t open.
  3. Attach several more ribbons around the edge of the bottom of the pinata in coordinating colors of the pinata. Use small pieces of scotch or masking tape so the ribbons will easily pull away from the pinata.
  4. Cover the bottom of the pinata with silver tissue paper, folded to the correct size.

Tips

  • Use curling ribbon or craft ribbon that coordinate with the colors of the pinata.
  • The ribbon to open the trap door needs to be placed opposite the hinge so it can pull it open.
  • If the ribbon attached to the trap door is not at the edge of the pinata, use small bits of scotch tape to hold it to the edge of the pinata. The false bottom will cover it up.

Now your Robot Pinata is ready for your party.


 

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