As any amateur or professional party planner will acknowledge, keeping guests engaged and active is the key to a successful get together. This is especially important—and difficult—when there is a wide variety of ages and interests. For your next party, choose piñatas for an interactive and fun focus or diversion.

With a bit of preparation, piñatas are a handy way of redirecting party activity. One can select a predesigned style of piñata, or choose to reflect the occasion or theme of the party. Likewise, consider filling a piñata with a variety of small items that appeal to the guests. Bagged fillers typically include small, inexpensive toys and candy, but creative and dedicated party planners often choose more personalized items.

For example, a piñata for a girl’s party may be filled with small dolls, doll clothes, bracelets, necklaces, earrings, rings, small bottles of fingernail polish, makeup, hair ties, bows, or headbands. For boys, consider choosing goodies like plastic soldiers, cars, or trading cards. For a mixed gender party, select craft supplies, such as crayons, markers, colored pencils or pens, stickers, stencils, small notebooks, glue sticks, and packages of glitter. After guests have grabbed their goodies, have tables set up where they can create with their new supplies. A warm weather event may include small water guns, balloons, sidewalk chalk, or tiny containers of bubbles to encourage outside play after the piñata is opened.

Once you have prepared and filled the piñata, have a plan for set up and safety. With a large crowd or with younger guests, you should hang the piñata and have a sturdy stick or bat handy before the festivities begin. Make sure that there is proper supervision before the first swing, and set the rules before the fun starts.

Whether a piñata is part of the party focus or a diversionary or contingency activity, a cheap piñata can re-energize any get together.

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