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By: Ross

Ross — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:00:42 +0000

Marianna- Do you have any photos of the Ursula pinata? I was recently asked to make one and would like to gather some ideas. Thanks!
-Ross

By: Kathy Cano-Murillo

Kathy Cano-Murillo — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:01:59 +0000

Ha, great post!!
YES!! I have a funny story too from my little niece! http://thecraftychica.blogspot.com/2008/02/tinkerbell-rip-pinata-tragedy.html

By: Ana Lilian

Ana Lilian — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:33:02 +0000

I´m so happy our piñata story put a smile on all of your faces. I laugh just thinking about mi. Ay, que mala mami!
Thanks @keen and @marianna for the great tip of using the villain of the story instead. Makes much more sense! Although, aggressive in it´s way, but easier to make up a wild story around it and make it more fun over all.
@diane-thanks for sharing that picture! As soon as Camila is in her dual-immersion kindergarten I´m going to talk to the teacher about this idea!
@deanna-pull string this year for sure! I´ll let u know how it goes.
@Liz-if Camila´s still not brave enough next year, then we´ll go with the star piñata..or donkey like Roxana´s.
@Dariela-I LOVED sandwichones! How come I had never had those sinful sandwiches before? Invítame!

By: Boca Beth

Boca Beth — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:26:36 +0000

That is tooooo funny! I have never thought of a piñata in that light and now know that anytime I see one at a future event I will think of this story amigas!

Thank Goodness our young ones often outgrow the bad memories!

By: Keen

Keen — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 04:19:41 +0000

My parents used to make and sell custom-made piñatas at their shop, and some customers picked piñatas that represented a villain or a character their kids didn’t like so that they’d have fun beating them up!

I loved piñatas so much as a kid that I even had one at my quinceañera. I figured I got to call the shots, and I also figured it would be my last piñata. I was right…sigh.

By: Roxana

Roxana — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 01:20:08 +0000

My dear Ana, you are officially a piñata-pooper!!! I love piñatas! Vanessa has hit a few so far in her short life and she seems to enjoy it. Maybe she’s inherited her violent streak from moi!!!
I do agree however that it’s wrong to use images of our kids’ favorite characters. As you know, Vane’s birthday just passed and since she’s obsessed with Toy Story, I was looking for a Woody or a Buzz piñata, but they don’t exist – which was probably a good thing…who knows how she would’ve reacted. We ended up getting a colorful burro like the one in the picture above and it all worked out fine – except that I had to be the one to destroy it because it was so difficult to break!!! Ja, ja – it was like being a child again, loved it, you piñata-pooper!!!!

By: diane

diane — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 01:14:41 +0000

I really enjoyed this post I’ve never understood the beating of beloved characters either. With my boys, I’ve stuck with inanimate objects. And no blindfolds. Still, the pinata is always the highlight of a party. Now that my boys are entering school age, I want them to experience making pinatas themselves. It’s really shocking how much money is involved for a store-bought one. Wanted to share this post/photo with you from a high school where I taught. The kids did an amazing job creating their own pinatas that decorated the classroom before the end-of-semester fiesta: http://foreignlanguagefun.com/2008/12/pinata-land/

By: Dariela

Dariela — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:36:21 +0000

Oh, I looove piñatas too! I think Camila will outgrow this fear as we all did. Look, all of latin@s are fine! I did a piñata for Adrian’s first birthday and he was scared of hitting it but he enjoyed the candies and did like it more on his second bday.
as for myself, I never thought I was strong enough to hit it but I was just waiting for the strong one to break it and dive right in the candy and toys, it was the main feature of the party of course!
BTW: Sanduchón??? I want some! My aunts make delicious ones that I haven’t tried in ages!! I did offer some little sanduchitos for Adrian’s first birthday

By: Marianna

Marianna — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:02:47 +0000

Ay Ana, pobrecita. Clarissa my daughter is also very sensitive and once when she was watching a Disney’s movie Christmas special, both Minnie and Daisy got in an argument and Minnie fell skating and Clarissa started crying for more than 10 minutes and she really thought that Minnie was hurt. I was told that their brain don’t start to differentiate truth from fiction until they are about 6 or 7 years old so in their minds these characters are real.
My niece had a princess birthday party when she turned 4 and freaked out when they started hitting Aurora, she cried and cried and it was really sad. So the next year she had an Ariel princess theme and the piñata was of Ursula the sea witch, they were still able to incorporate a character of the theme and by it being the villain, she was okay with beating it with a stick. As you say it is a tradition that I am sure many parents don’t approve and think it is violent. I personally never took as a violence experience I enjoyed hitting the piñata it was the trampling kids afterwards and getting the candy that always got too scary for me.