Pikachu Piñata
No Pokemon party would be complete without a Pikachu Piñata.

You need:

• Two Paper Grocery Bag
• Newspaper
• Flour
• Yellow Tissue Paper
• Black, White & Red Construction Paper
• String
• White Glue
• Stapler
• Candy
• Wax paper
• Scissors
• Pikachu Face Pattern

Instructions:

Pour candy and other treats into an empty grocery bag. Crumble up newspaper and continue to fill bag to about 3/4 full. Close top and roll down a couple of inches stapling closed. Open up the second paper bag. Cut it in half and roll each half into a cone. Tape. Flatten cones and trim both ends to get the right shape and size. Staple to the paper bag. Poke a whole for the sting at the top of the bag.

Make a paper maché mixture by mixing flour and water together to get the consistency of wallpaper paste. Tear 1" strips of newspaper and dip them into the paste. Run strip between two fingers to get off excess paste and begin by covering the bottom of the paper bag. Set it on wax paper and cover the rest of the bag. Don't be too concerned about lumps and bumps because the tissue paper will hide most of them. Use paper maché to reinforce where the ears meet the bag. You don't need to do the whole ear. It will weigh them down too much. Let dry overnight.

Cut sheets of tissue paper in half. Fold each piece in half, then in half again until you have strips about 2 or 3" tall. Fringe strips by cutting every 1/2" with scissors. Glue tissue paper strips around the paper bag beginning at the bottom and working up to the top, overlapping each strip. Wrap around the ears from the center out.

Run out a Pikachu Face Pattern   to use as a guide for cutting the face out of construction paper. Cut the tips for the ears out of black construction paper. Glue into place.

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