Easy DIY Lego Piñata with Supplies from Home

Throwing a Lego party and already spent most of your budget on decorations, games, or Legos but still want a piñata to close out the party? Not to worry! This budget-friendly, pull string Lego piñata won’t break the piggy bank but will still have kids smiling with free falling treats!

Feel free to improvise or use other materials if you don’t have these around.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED

THE SUPPLIES:

1. Any box you can get your hands on (I find that any package or shipping box works well but you can also use shoe boxes or any other sturdy box). $0
2. Tissue Paper ~ preferably in your kiddo’s favorite color but not a must. You’ll likely need less than 10 or so sheets for a medium sized box but this will depend on the size of your box, the size of your ‘pegs’, and how many ‘pegs’ you add on. You can find a set of sheets at the Dollar Store or the gift section of most stores. $1-$3
3. Thin Ribbon – it doesn’t have to be a matching color to the tissue unless you want everything in one color. If you can head to a Dollar Store, you should be able to find some ribbon/string for $1 in the wrapping paper section. Otherwise, you should be able to get a set for roughly $3 or less at other stores. $1-$3.
4. Small Flat Cylinders. I used foam circles since they’re very light and don’t need a good deal of tape/glue to keep on the piñata. My box was medium sized, so I really only needed 6 but got this pack for under $7: Craft Foam Circle Disk 3in Diameter (12 ct). BUT you can also upcycle any flat cylinders you have lying around (tops of jars- any nutella fans out there?, tops of candles, etc…)

THE TOOLS: Hopefully you have these at home already. Otherwise, you can get all of these from a Dollar Store or most stores.

1. Scissors.
2. Box Cutter (This makes things easier but you can also improvise with a sharp pair of scissors)
3. Packaging Tape / Glue / Glue Dots (Really any strong adhesive)

STEPS

Step 1: Wrap the Box

Wrap most of the box in the tissue paper. You could wrap the entire box but then you’d have to mess with cutting out the bottom flaps again. It’s easiest to leave the bottom part unwrapped since you will need to work with it when adding the ribbon/string .

Step 2: Add the top ribbon (to hold the pinata)

Step 3: Wrap the “Pegs”

Start with cutting out a small piece of tissue for each peg. Use just a small piece of tissue – just enough to cover the front and sides completely as well as a bit to tape to the back. If you’re using the 3in foam circles, you should only need 1 standard tissue paper for six pegs.

Start with laying the cylinder on top of tissue square. Then, start to gently pull the edges and tape them down to the back. The front will look fairly smooth. The back will be a bit messy, but don’t mind it too much no one will see it 🙂

Step 4: Attach the ‘Pegs’

Add some rolled up tape or glue to the back of the wrapped peg and start laying them out onto your wrapped box. It should start to look like a recognizable Lego block!

Step 5: Add the strings

Cut out a few lengths of string. Generally, I make them about 2ft in length and make about 3 per child/guest. Using a small piece of tape, affix an end of the string to bottom of the box. Generally, the ribbons should be added closely together to make it difficult for kids to figure out which string to pull but not with their tape overlapping.

Step 6: Add the winning string

Cut one string slightly longer than the others – this will be the “winning string”. Open up one of the bottom flaps and attach the string to that end. One or two pieces of tape should do it. When someone pulls this string, it should open the flap and out comes all the candy!!!

Step 7: Fill the piñata!

Since it’s a Lego party, we added in candy favorites but also some mini figures, extra Legos, and Lego Confetti. You can find some Lego Polybags on the Lego Store if you want to add in more ‘unique’ pieces than general Lego blocks. If you split them up into smaller packages, you can end up with about 4-5 smaller packets per bag (They’re about $4 per XTRA bag).

Step 8: The finished product!