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| Baby LaWinDa Milkzalot |
Early on in our time in Lowville it was announced that there was going to be a Fifth Sunday Family Fiesta. It was also announced that they would be buying a pinata, and, silly us who have never made a pinata before, volunteered to make it instead.
We decided, since we are living in Lowville a place surrounded by dairy farms, that it should be a cow pinata. We, like I said, had never made a pinata before and I was a bit nervous about how it would turn out. I always do this - make things for the first time for other people, without doing a trial run for just us. When will I ever learn??
Anyway, we were given a bag of little balloons so we blew them up, taped them together, and covered them with paper dipped in a flour solution we found online somewhere.
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| First layer |
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| Letting the first layer dry |
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| Getting ready to add layer #2 |
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| Don't you put your pinatas together with duct tape? |
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| We'd had the kids scribble on paper for the 2nd layer so we could make sure it all got covered twice. |
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| Here she is drying the 2nd time. |
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| dry cow - she stands! |
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| from various tutorials we read online we learned that crepe paper covers a multitude of mistakes :) |
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| Filling her up with candy |
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| I think Lydia likes her |
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| Abigail does too! |
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| Here's our cow, getting ready to take it's walk to church. |
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| I've got my eyes on you |
All the kids, from youngest to oldest got to take some swings at the cow.
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| The neck was broken |
After all the kids got a chance to swing at it a couple of the dads pulled it apart to let the candy fall. I think we made her a little too strong!
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| Glenn and the headless cow |
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| Candy!! |
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| Various Cow parts were used as candy collection places (we made Abigail share this candy - she really didn't need that much!!) and souvenirs. |
After the party was over we took a walk down to see the real Lady LaWinDa Milkzalot to apologize for beating on her baby.
The pinata ended up turning out better than I expected and it was a lot of fun both making it and seeing it destroyed. I think I'd do it again.
