Harry Potter Party, Owl Pinata

Step by step owl pinata.

You will need ~

2 large balloons

lots of newspaper

wallpaper paste

brown parcel paper

old cereal box

white emulsion or acrylic paint

paint brush

scissors

Gardeners twine

We searched high and low for an Owl Pinata and gave up in the end ~ we resorted to the ever trusted paper mache :0)  We love an excuse to make things from paper mache in our house.  We used extra large balloons and decided to make 2 just in case one failed.

We started making them 2 weeks prior so we could get plenty of layers built up and dried.  

We had around 5 layers of dried mache on our balloons, before we popped the balloons and trimmed the edge neatly. we then threaded some gardeners twine through the top to hang the pinatas from.  We then gave them a coat of emulsion and popped them aside to dry again.  We used the cereal box to cut out 2 large tear drop shapes and 2 large cicles for the eyes we gave these a coat of white too.

Then using the brown parcel paper we cut finger length strips with a little rounded point at the end to resemble feathers.  Then we started from the bottom corner of the wing and built up the layers to look like feathered wings.

Then using circles cut from the brown parcel paper, we stuck the owls chest feathers on in a rough triangular shape. 
We then filled in the rest of the white with the finger shaped feathers starting at the bottom and working our way up.

Wings and eyes and ear feathers are glued on using a hot glue gun ~ then we stuffed them full of sweeties before we glued our base on.

My girls made these practically on their own I just used the glue gun for them and they cost a maximum of £2 for all the materials not including the sweets.  Before we hung them from the tree we fixed letters into their claws :0)  They gave us a good 30 minutes entertainment during the party :0)