Review on Alex DIY Pinata Party: Kids Art and Craft Activity Kit by Jim Dahl

This is a fairly easy craft. As a simple adult pastime this would be fine, it is intended for ages 6+ and worked well with my 6 year old. I've done this with kids ages 4 and 6. 6 year old was able to make a basic kit. (Also, he doesn't have very good coordination for his age, so he's pretty average in terms of crafting, not ahead.) So age 6 and older seems accurate. The 4-year-old didn't actually make the piñata but instead was excited about the idea of filling it with candy and eating the candy. The set contains 2 pinatas. Every person has two very different sides. The semicircle has a watermelon on one side and a taco on the other. The circle is a donut on one side and a unicorn's face on the other. There's enough crepe paper to make two sides of a piñata the same, but not enough embellishments to make stickers, faces, and stick figures on both sides. Each basic, durable shape for the base of the piñata is made out of cardboard. These come already formed in molds. Each flat side is like a big sticker. You peel off the cover sheet and the large flat sides of each become sticky. Then take the precut crepe paper that comes in strips and glue it to the strips to make the artistic part of the piñata. Then you glue the shapes, stick on stickers and decorate the sides, basically like the pictures you see on the box. It comes with all accessories including a small tube of glue. It took maybe an hour to do this and it involved finishing all 4 sides, leaving one side for the glue to dry and doing the other. The only really tricky part was gluing the unicorn horn into a tube. You get a shiny pre-cut link, then roll it into a cone, glue the edge and pin together to make a cone. I used a chip clip to pin it in place while the glue dries but this was quite difficult. Instead of a unicorn you can of course also make a rainbow pony and then you don't have to worry about the horn. The design has a fresh hipster feel. Tacos, in particular, feel more like a cute grown-up vibe than a childish thing, and can be appropriate for social events for all ages. Each pinata is tiny. They can be 6" in diameter for the round and 8" in diameter for the half-round. So really not too big and terrible. You can put any small bag of candy in it and use it as a piñata if you like. Overall, it's a pretty nice, low-key conversational activity for adults (probably two adults, two couples, or two groups since there are two piñatas). ) and I was good with children. A piñata is also a great item because you can decorate it for a short time and then when you want to clean it up, fill it with candy and smash it.