Make your very own NINJA PINATA!

 

In case you are ever throwing a NINJA theme party and would like to have a bad guy for the kids to attack (instead of each other!!) here is how you make your very own paper bag ninja pinata.  I got the idea from this website then modified it to fit our ninja theme. First I used a glue stick to attach the black crepe paper.  I think sheets of tissue paper would be faster and easier.  Then I filled the paper grocery bag with candy, mini horses, army guys, ninja silly bands (Fred Meyer) and ninja guys (pack of 5 from Honk's Dollar store).  Fold the top of the bag over a wire hanger and tape it closed with packing tape.  The head is a balloon (the black balloon popped so the purple was the back-up head) with a taped on paper mask.  Stuff 4 garbage bags with newspaper and tie the arms onto the hanger and tape the legs to the bottom of the grocery bag body.  Pretty simple.  My husband untwisted the top of the wire hanger and hung it from swing set chains and hung it from our basketball hoop.  By the way, I did not double the grocery bag.  We had about eight 6 to 8 year old kids punching, kicking and throwing ninja stars at it and it held up pretty well.  The ninja swords finally did it in. It would be okay to double the bag to make it last longer.  It did kind of hurt to punch that thing.  We offered punching gloves, but the little ninjas were tough.