the making of Miss Spider pinata

There is a 3 foot 7 lb spider lurking in the laundry room, crawling on my art table and swinging from the tree. She is complete and she is beautiful. OK, so she hasn't swung yet, but she's prepped and ready to go. We got her made, painted and stuffed with candy. Somehow a whole slew of kids showed up right when it was time to load her up. Interesting how that worked. Where were they for the arduous, messy creating and for the laborious painting? Nope, they showed up right when it was time to open up the sweet smelling bags of delicious goop. That worked out fine actually. It took a record time to fill her up and much fun for all ages. Then we made the spider marshmellow treats. According to the recipe I was supposed to melt chocolate and cover the made up spiders with it, and although the more chocolate the better, it sounded like a lot of work and I thought fuzzy looking marshmellows already coated in toasted coconut from the store was a great alternative.

I've got a fun scavenger hunt made, samples of a spider decorated bag and spider craft for the kids to make and cakes to bake. I was going to bake them today, but today got away on me. Good thing there is still tomorrow.



Ivan wanted to eat some candy out of his pinata. I told him we couldn't get it out and asked him how we could get it out. He gleefully replied that we could take a stick and smash it and get candy out. Yep, he's ready.

Part two coming soon: Miss Spider's eminent demise- small children armed with dangerous looking weaponry smash and demolish artfully created jurasic like specimen as parents cheer, applaud and photograph the frenzied chaos.