Preschool Halloween Paper Bag Pinata

The Preschool Halloween Piñata is easy to make and lots of fun for preschool children to swing at and break. It can be a nice alternative to trick-or-treating, especially when it’s filled with healthy treats such as tiny boxes of raisins and low sugar cereal bars. It breaks easily so preschoolers don’t become disinterested while they are waiting for the treats to fall out.

Materials You Will Need

1 Paper grocery sack with no rips or holes
Orange tempera paint
Marking pens to make the face
A rope to hand it from
A piece of 2-inch dowel about two to three feet long

How to Make it.

Step 1:
Paint the outside of the sack orange and let it dry completely.

Step 2:
Draw a Jack-o-lantern face on the sack.

Step 3:
Stuff the bag with treats and small toys.

Step 4:
Tie the bag close with the rope and hang it from a tree or anyplace you have handy.

Helpful Tips for Parents

Tip 1:
Don’t blindfold the preschoolers who are swinging at the piñata. It’s hard enough for them to do it at all.

Tip 2:
Make sure all the other children stand well back from the piñata while someone is swinging the stick. 

Tip 3:
To avoid the free-for-all grabbing after the piñata has been broken, create treat packets, several treats bundled as one. Wrap each in a different color of ribbon. Tie a ribbon around each preschooler’s wrist and tell them to find the packet that matches their ribbon.

An Alternative Way to Make the Piñata

Instead of tempera paint to make the bag orange, glue on layers of orange tissue paper. Cut jack-o-lantern features from black construction paper and glue them on.