How to make a “Mike Wazowski” Piñata
By Meghan Killian (Period 6)
STEP 1Get supplies needed for creating the piñata
Supplies:
 A round balloon (for the body)
 Tubes/sticks (for the arms and legs)
 Tin foil (for constructing the fingers, toes and ears)
 A domed structure such as a bowl (for the eye)
 Duct tape (for taping the parts of the figure together)
 Scissors
 Plaster cloth
OR
 Newspaper with a mixture of flour and water (1 cup of water and 2
cups of flour)
 Green/black/white paint
STEP 2Construct the limbs of the piñata.
 Mold the tin foil into long tube shapes for the fingers and toes
 Mold four spheres for the palm of Mike Wazowski’s hand, and the
bottom of his foot.
 Flatten out the spheres to make the hands and feet look more realistic
 Duct tape the fingers and toes to the “spheres”
 Attach the hands and feet to the tubes/sticks using duct tape. You may
want to cut down the sticks/tubes to make them look more
proportionate to the body. (Make sure the hands and feet are secure.
Also the legs are shorter than the arms.)
 Duct tape the arms and legs onto the blown up balloon (make sure
they are secure
 Construct two pyramids shapes out of some tin foil for the horns/ears
 Duct tape to the top of your balloon
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Take your bowl or other domed object and duct tape onto the front of
the balloon upside down. Place towards the middle of the balloon
You may also make finger nail and toe tails by adding pointed tin foil
to the end of the fingers and toes.
STEP 3Cut the plaster cloth into three different sized strips- small, medium and large. Dip
the cloth into a bowl of water and place all over your piñata. Make sure the entire
object is covered in the cloth. Add more cloth where your piñata is weaker.
*If you are using the newspaper and flour mixture: mix one cup of water and two
cups of flour together until you have a very liquefied mixture. (Add more water if
the mixture is too chunky) Cut the same sized strips of newspaper and dip into the
mixture. Before placing the strips onto your piñata make sure that you strain some
of the excess liquid from the strips. Place all over your piñata.
Leave a hole in the top of your piñata for filling it up with candy later. Do not cover
this part with the cloth.
*Make sure you have at least 3 layers on your piñata. You may use more
layers if you want a stronger piñata.*
*LET DRY*
STEP 4Paint your piñata. You may use a picture of Mike Wazowski to perfect his coloring.
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His body, arms, legs and iris of his eye are green. (The eye is a darker
shade of green. The rest of his body is the same lime green color.)
Mike Wazowski has black at the tips of his horns/ears and the inside
of his mouth. The pupil of his eye is also black
His fingernails, toenails, teeth and the bottom and middle of his
horns/ears are an off white color.
The cornea of his eye is white.
* LET DRY*
STEP 5Where there is a hole, pop the balloon and pull it out. Fill up your piñata with candy
through the same hole. You may add different tissue papers to keep all of your candy
from falling to the bottom of you piñata. Also, punch two holes on either side of the
hole and string some ribbon through it. Tie the ribbon together at the top so that
your piñata can be hung up later.