Bright, vibrant colors help make your sun pinata stand out.
If you're having a party to celebrate summer or hosting a outdoor birthday party during the hot summer months, consider building a sun pinata. Filled with candy and other favors, the pinata will catch the eye of your party's guests -- before they destroy it to enjoy its contents. Does this Spark an idea?
Colors
The color of your sun-shaped pinata should stand out and help people notice it. It's appropriate to decorate this kind of pinata in red, yellow and orange to give it the same colors as the sun. If your party's main decoration colors are different, however, you could be creative and color the sun to match your theme. If your party is decorated in purple and white, for example, color the sun purple and give it white rays.
Materials
If the sun pinata is blank, or its design is drab, you can paint the entire surface of the pinata in the colors you desire. Use acrylic paints to make the cleanup simple, and the paint will also dry quickly. You can also decorate the pinata with thin, appropriately colored tissue paper. It's important that whatever material you use to cover the pinata isn't so thick as to prevent it from breaking open when it's hit.
Face
No decorative sun is complete without a face, and if you're decorating a sun pinata, it's logical to add sunglasses to the face. Give the face a large smile, a small nose and large, black sunglasses. If you want your pinata to appear extra happy, make its smile wide and draw in plenty of big teeth.
Streamers
Any sun decoration should have rays, so take long strips of tissue paper in your color scheme and tape or glue them to the body of the sun. Not only will these additions give your pinata visual appeal, but streamers will spin and fly through the air when people hit the pinata. If you don't have the time to cut pieces of tissue paper into long strips, try to buy bright-colored streamers at a party store.
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