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| Waiting in line for Santa |
Thank you to those who were able to join us for the Annual Christmas Celebration at the Carnegie Neighborhood Library and Center for Learning!
It was a wonderful Christmas celebration. The Piñata game was the most funny part of the celebration. It was filled with small toys and candies.
Blindfolded kids got a baton to hit the piñata in order to release its contents.
The kids really enjoyed this and some of the parents seemed to love them just as much!!!
Stay tuned - a lot of interesting events will take place at our library this coming year!
The name piñata is derived from the Italian word pignatta, meaning clay pot but pinatas originated in China.
Marco Polo, the famous 14th century Venetian merchant traveler, reported that the Chinese celebrated New Years by fashioning paper figures of harness animals like oxen and buffalo and filling those figures with seeds. The Chinese then beat the figures with sticks to collect the seeds for planting, after which the paper animals were burned. Marco Polo's party brought this whimsical idea back to Italy where pinatas, made of clay, quickly became a popular Lenten activity.
Spanish missionaries spread piñatas to the New World where they were received enthusiastically because the indigenous Mayans used a very similar tradition to celebrate the birthday of their war god.
Today, the piñata is still part of Mexican culture, the cultures of other countries in Latin America, as well as the United States.
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| Our colorful piñata |
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| They can't wait to strike the piñata! |
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| Children hitting the piñata |
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| Santa came to the library |
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