The Mini Pinata

Alden was given a little pinata for Christmas from my siblings and so before we left they had fun breaking it open together.  We found a little plastic hammer in the garage and let Alden go to work hitting at it.  He ended up needing some help so everyone got a turn, but we had a lot of fun.

Alden starting us off.  He was pretty good at swinging that hammer around.

Alden was fairly consistent when he first started swinging.  He would just try the same thing over and over.  As you can hear in this video, Drew said he was just trying to tire the pinata out.

As you can see here, as time went on, Alden changed his technique and we started giving him some help.

Alden was very determined to do as much as he could on his own and just kept swinging to hit the pinata.

Erik finally got to help hit it some.

And then Drew helped and finally got it to start breaking open.

So, then we handed the hammer back to Alden and he got to wack it and make some candy fly out which he thought was really cool.

Then, when Alden was done Erik put it on the ground and just pounded away at it until it was pretty much destroyed.

However, Erik still felt the need to tear the rest of the pinata apart, which Alden had fun watching.  It was amazing how much entertainment we all got out of this tiny little pinata!