Another Way to Recycle Paper

Happy Cinco de Mayo! If you'd like to multitask recycling and celebrating this great holiday, make a pinata. You'll need paper mache, a balloon, and something to decorate it with (crepe paper is traditional, but glitter and glue or paint or a picture of someone you don't like will all work, too). You can find three different paper mache recipes here. If I were you, I'd use the no-cook recipe.

Not that I think you'll make this same mistake, but I know from experience that if you blow up a latex glove because you don't have any balloons, you need to let your pinata have five fingers. If you use enough paper mache to plaster down the fingers, your pinata will be too thick to break. Even if  you lay it on the concrete and go at it with a metal bat. The pinata in question is probably still sitting, intact, in a landfill. Three layers of paper mache will be plenty!