Piñata

For those of you who don’t know what a pinata is, it is basically a paper mache animal or toy that you hollow out and fill with candy. Then you put on a blindfold and hit it with a bat until the candy comes out. This tradition first originated from Spain except you would fill the pinata with toys or other small trinkets instead of candy. For those of you who are new to art. It is not easy. Frustration can be very

A. Attention Getter: I will walk in with two small piñatas. I will then proceed to ask the class if they know what it is that I am holding. Once somebody answers, I will ask them if they know what they represent and what they were/are used for. B. Revealed Object and Speakers Credibility: I will pass around the piñatas to the class. I am Mexican and I can clearly remember that at every birthday party I went to that there was a piñata for the children to hit. I always thought it was a bit peculiar

How to Create a Paper Mache Pinata Paper mache piñata is a common DIY project that can be done at home for kids parties, or even just for fun. Back when I was younger, my mother would always sit us down on the table with all the materials ready and she would give us step by step. It was really fun making animal shaped pinata, and they do not always need to be pinata we sometimes turned them into piggy banks. Creating paper mache pinatas is easy, here are six easy steps and what you will need to

Piñatas have been used in many events and have a lot of purposes. Piñatas have been used in party. Example of party would be birthday and Christmas party. They would be filled with goods like treats and toys. Then, people would break the piñata open. They are typically used to celebrate something, and having fun while playing the game. In China, they are used to wish a good luck during Chinese New Year. In the ancient Aztec culture it was used to celebrate their god’s birthday. In cultures like Maya

trade. Their conquest in this cartoon to a donkey with the pressure of being suspended and isolated in the air is a distortion of the truth. Yet, Mexico is blended in by various images in the cartoon. An overused Americanized symbol, the piñata puts down Mexican culture’s diversity and vitality. By depicting an entire diverse country as a helpless object, the cartoonist constructs ethos for himself by apparently being able to make large reflections about multiple issues, implying that

Las Posadas is Spanish for “The Inns”, and it is a religious festival celebrated across Mexico and some parts of the United States. It is held between December 16 and 24, and lasts for nine evenings. The Posada begins with the recitation of the Holy Rosary, a beautiful prayer to the Mother of Jesus, Mary. It finally ends with the Posada and Midnight Mass on December 24th. It commemorates the journey that Joseph and Mary made from Nazareth to Bethlehem in search of a location where Mary could

in the morning. She went to the back of the building to leave through the back door because in front of the place had bad traffic and didn’t feel like almost getting hit by a car. On her way to the door something catches her eye in the dim room. A piñata that is about a foot and a half tall chilling at this table. She wanted to leave but something told her to go up to him and talk to him but at the same time something was telling her this would be a mistake. Raven decided to go with and against her

that Continue to Separate Us” and Guillermo Galindo’s art piece “Pinata de Cartuchos” both define powerful borders and heavily relate to the border that I faced throughout my senior year of high school with my peers and

A piñata is a decorated clay or papier-mâché jar filled with sweets and hung from the ceiling or tree branch. The piñata is often decorated like a ball with seven peaks around it. The spikes represent the 'seven deadly sins'. Piñata's can also be in the form of an animal or bird.To play the game, children are blindfolded and take turns to hit the piñata with a stick until it splits open and the sweets pour out. Then the children

Planning a Mexican Birthday party is no easy task, there are multiple factors that go into doing so. Not only does it require a couple days of planning, but if done poorly, it will turn out the same. You see in a Mexican party, one does not care about the content or what the family can provide. Rather, they care about what they can contribute to make the party happen. The same can be said for a birthday party. One does not spend weeks planning unless it’s needed. Instead, you just decide on what