Inexpensive Bargain Pinatas For a Cinco De Mayo Fiesta on a Budget

No Cinco de Mayo celebration is complete without a piñata. In today's economy, where can you find a great piñata for a reasonable price? Here are some piñatas for your Cinco de Mayo celebration that won't bust your wallet. Piñatas make beautiful decorations, and provide fun for children, who break them open blindfolded, to get candy and toys.

Oriental Trading offers a 12-inch treasure-chest piñata, in which you can stuff with toys and/or candy of your choosing, for only $15.99? Check this out

But what could be more symbolic of Mexican culture than a donkey? Pinatas.com has a beautiful donkey piñata for $15.99. This 9.5"x21" papier-maché decoration is sure to delight everyone!

For a brightly-colored bull piñata, check out this item from Windy City Novelties. At $13.40, it's very affordable, and they also provide the option to order a candy filler pack and bats and masks to add to the fun.

Want a piñata that also makes a lovely centerpiece for the table? Windy City Novelties has a beautiful 24-in sombrero piñata, also $13.40. You can put this piñata in the middle of the table during dinner, and later hang it up for fun time, when the kids can hit it and break it open for treats. This is a wonderful piñata that provides more value with its dual purpose.

Add spice and color to your Cinco de Mayo fiesta with a chili pepper or two, or more. At a price as low as $9.00 [price based on quantity ordered], you can hang several of these symbols of Mexican food. Chilis are the main ingredient of salsa, which your guests will probably be eating plenty of, as well as dancing the spicy "salsa".

The tequila will probably be flowing on Cinco de Mayo, and tequila comes from the cactus that grows in the Mexican desert. You can order cactus piñatas to hang at your Cinco de Mayo party at this site. For only $9.95 each, you can hang these papier-maché cacti or stand them up as table centerpieces.

What's the signature mixed drink of Mexico? Of course it's the Margarita. So why not display Margarita-glass piñatas. These lime-green 17"x14"x4" piñatas are17x14x4-inch piñatas are a real bargain at $12.99 each, and you can order candy fillers for only $8.95 each at Piñatas.com.

Piñatas.com also has a "Fiesta Drum" piñata for $12.99, decorated with the word "fiesta" and a female Mexican dancer, whose dimensions are 15"x15"x3.5" . This piñata, like the one above, is very cultural and folkloric. Not quite as fun and whimsical as some of the others, but extremely symbolic. Another piñata from the same company is an Aztec-style one in the colors of the Mexican flag. It contains the words "Cinco de Mayo", is 15"x15"x3.5" and sells for $12.95.

And here is a piñata from Piñatas.com strictly for the grown-ups! The 20"x14"x4" "Tequila Bottle" piñata is the perfect representation of Mexico's national cactus-fermented drink! At $12.99 each, you could buy a few to pass around.

Whatever your taste, and the mood of your invitees, there are lots of piñatas cheap enough to make your Cinco de Mayo celebration festive, fun, and economical!