How to make a DIY pancake: what a party would it be without a little color and a lot of sweetness guaranteed by a shower of candies? Everything you need to amaze the children is enclosed within it. How about making one with our help? Make yourself comfortable and savor all of our suggestions.
If you are celebrating some particular occasion, there is no more fun way to do it than to break a piñata (or pentolaccia, if you prefer). Going around the shops or on the net, do you have more than one purchase opportunity but want to put the fun in making your own? Let’s try together.
Easy, fast, fun, cheap, colorful and personalized: entertain your guests in a special way and with us you will discover how beautiful it is to make it but above all to break it. Let’s start by preparing the necessary: it’s time to party!
Read also: Building and living in a wooden house
Necessary
To make a truly original piñata you need a few elements as long as the right ones, take note. The central body will be easy to create by keeping it aside some recycled material such as paper, cardboard and various cardboard boxes of eggs, snacks, boxes of handkerchiefs and so on and so forth.
For the decorations, however, wide to the imagination but useful tools remain:
- pair of scissors
- hot glue
- colored tissue paper
- pencil
- ruler
- wire
- Scotch tape
- candies
- confetti.
Once everything has been prepared, this adventure begins with us: let’s read together the first way, the quickest one to do four-handed with the little ones.
1. How to make a DIY pan with a bag
Do we have bread bags? Don’t throw them away: the key word is to recycle. What more fun way than to make a colorful pancake? Whatever theme you choose for the party, it will be easy to shape the bag according to your needs. The first step is to fill it with lollipops, candies is chocolates various then close it with adhesive tape.
Make a small hole in the upper part the space necessary to insert a thread that will support the bag at the moment of breaking, then the best part comes. Have fun lining it with colored tissue paper or stiffer cardstock to draw on the face of the character most loved by children. Time of realization? A few minutes! We come to the second idea.
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2. How to make DIY pentolaccia with cardboard
The second idea is the most creative of all: cartoons that turn into cars, butterflies or unicorns: who said they don’t exist? Make them with the help of your imagination and it will be really fun. What is the best way to proceed? Jot down a sketch and go with the blueprint, let’s see how:
- Choose a carton the size you want
- With the help of a pencil draw the shape you want to make on it
- Cut out and assemble the various sides
- Fill with candy and make a hole in the base from which they will fall
- Get creative with covering or coloring it: cardstock, tissue paper, glitter glues, bows and ribbons. Everything is allowed!
Let’s move on to the last idea.
3. How to make a DIY pentolaccia in papier-mâché
This process will make you feel like a little child between glue, balloons and newspaper strips. Are you ready to dive into this latest project? Start by taking some vinyl glue or if you prefer a DIY alternative, mix one part of water with one part of flour until you get a sticky mixture.
Take a balloon and start blowing, knot it and cut it out of newspaper strips, one after the other, make them join to your balloon until it is completely covered. Take care to make at least two or three layers e let it dry for a whole day. After that time, take a needle and blow it up. You will find yourself with a shape that is waiting for nothing more than to be embellished. Don’t forget to fill it with sweets and tie it with a thread.
One more idea: mini pentolaccia
As a gift idea out of the ordinary or to surprise those you love in an original way, how about composing a smaller version to be savored? Choose the right way to do it and amaze with funny and unusual shapes.
In the shape of a ring for a declaration of love or a hot air balloon to dream of distant places together: there are different ideas and opportunities to make them happen. It is enough just to get involved and why not do it starting from this restricted version? It will help you to acquire dexterity and confidence to think big.
How to make a stick for a DIY pan
We greet you with the creation of an indispensable accessory for the pan: how to make the sweet surprises rain inside if not with the ideal stick? In theme with the pentolaccia, in shape and colors, it will be sufficient to set aside a bit of resistant cardboard and no more weapons in this case as well.
Embellish it and personalize it as fantasy suggests: et voilà let the fun begin.
How to make DIY pentolaccia: photos and images
If after reading our article you can’t wait to get to work and make your children happy with a personalized pancake, take a last look at some more images that we have included for you in the gallery. What better occasion than the upcoming Easter? Find the right inspiration by browsing it with us.
How to make a DIY pancake: what a party would it be without a little color and a lot of sweetness guaranteed by a shower of candies? Everything you need to amaze the children is enclosed within it. How about making one with our help? Make yourself comfortable and savor all of our suggestions.
If you are celebrating some particular occasion, there is no more fun way to do it than to break a piñata (or pentolaccia, if you prefer). Going around the shops or on the net, do you have more than one purchase opportunity but want to put the fun in making your own? Let’s try together.
Easy, fast, fun, cheap, colorful and personalized: entertain your guests in a special way and with us you will discover how beautiful it is to make it but above all to break it. Let’s start by preparing the necessary: it’s time to party!
Read also: Building and living in a wooden house
Necessary
To make a truly original piñata you need a few elements as long as the right ones, take note. The central body will be easy to create by keeping it aside some recycled material such as paper, cardboard and various cardboard boxes of eggs, snacks, boxes of handkerchiefs and so on and so forth.
For the decorations, however, wide to the imagination but useful tools remain:
- pair of scissors
- hot glue
- colored tissue paper
- pencil
- ruler
- wire
- Scotch tape
- candies
- confetti.
Once everything has been prepared, this adventure begins with us: let’s read together the first way, the quickest one to do four-handed with the little ones.
1. How to make a DIY pan with a bag
Do we have bread bags? Don’t throw them away: the key word is to recycle. What more fun way than to make a colorful pancake? Whatever theme you choose for the party, it will be easy to shape the bag according to your needs. The first step is to fill it with lollipops, candies is chocolates various then close it with adhesive tape.
Make a small hole in the upper part the space necessary to insert a thread that will support the bag at the moment of breaking, then the best part comes. Have fun lining it with colored tissue paper or stiffer cardstock to draw on the face of the character most loved by children. Time of realization? A few minutes! We come to the second idea.
You may be interested in: Fun wardrobes for children’s bedrooms
2. How to make DIY pentolaccia with cardboard
The second idea is the most creative of all: cartoons that turn into cars, butterflies or unicorns: who said they don’t exist? Make them with the help of your imagination and it will be really fun. What is the best way to proceed? Jot down a sketch and go with the blueprint, let’s see how:
- Choose a carton the size you want
- With the help of a pencil draw the shape you want to make on it
- Cut out and assemble the various sides
- Fill with candy and make a hole in the base from which they will fall
- Get creative with covering or coloring it: cardstock, tissue paper, glitter glues, bows and ribbons. Everything is allowed!
Let’s move on to the last idea.
3. How to make a DIY pentolaccia in papier-mâché
This process will make you feel like a little child between glue, balloons and newspaper strips. Are you ready to dive into this latest project? Start by taking some vinyl glue or if you prefer a DIY alternative, mix one part of water with one part of flour until you get a sticky mixture.
Take a balloon and start blowing, knot it and cut it out of newspaper strips, one after the other, make them join to your balloon until it is completely covered. Take care to make at least two or three layers e let it dry for a whole day. After that time, take a needle and blow it up. You will find yourself with a shape that is waiting for nothing more than to be embellished. Don’t forget to fill it with sweets and tie it with a thread.
One more idea: mini pentolaccia
As a gift idea out of the ordinary or to surprise those you love in an original way, how about composing a smaller version to be savored? Choose the right way to do it and amaze with funny and unusual shapes.
In the shape of a ring for a declaration of love or a hot air balloon to dream of distant places together: there are different ideas and opportunities to make them happen. It is enough just to get involved and why not do it starting from this restricted version? It will help you to acquire dexterity and confidence to think big.
How to make a stick for a DIY pan
We greet you with the creation of an indispensable accessory for the pan: how to make the sweet surprises rain inside if not with the ideal stick? In theme with the pentolaccia, in shape and colors, it will be sufficient to set aside a bit of resistant cardboard and no more weapons in this case as well.
Embellish it and personalize it as fantasy suggests: et voilà let the fun begin.
How to make DIY pentolaccia: photos and images
If after reading our article you can’t wait to get to work and make your children happy with a personalized pancake, take a last look at some more images that we have included for you in the gallery. What better occasion than the upcoming Easter? Find the right inspiration by browsing it with us.
