American Baseball Piñata | Craftory | PragerU Kids

[Music] welcome to craftery by prageru kids crafts history and your questions I'm Jill and today we're making a paper mache baseball pinata to learn about what's called America's national Pastime baseball oh we've got a question why is baseball or national pastime and what does that word mean you know I've often wondered that myself as for what the word means well Pastime is an activity that someone does a lot for enjoyment it's like a hobby baseball is known as America's national Pastime because baseball has a very special place in American history it helped shape our nation now today's craft is a multi-step project so if you're gonna do it be sure to stick with me and ask your parent for help or you can always just watch and learn too okay okay here's what you'll need a balloon glue water with a bowl newspaper cut into strips white paper also cut into strips a red permanent marker and wrapped candy yum so how did the game of baseball start well stick and ball games have been around throughout history around the world but during the 1800s a group of New York men called the Knickerbocker baseball club started making new rules for the game in June of 1846 they used their new rules in a game for the first time many people believed the Knickerbocker rules became the laws of baseball let's get our project started and I'll tell you more later first blow up your balloon ready you're going to want to make it the size of a softball a large softball good this is a big softball right that's okay I'm gonna go for it tie it ask an adult for help if you need it this is the base for our paper mache now let's get our paper mache mixture going we're going to do three parts glue and one part water this is the sticky part into the bowl and I'm just gonna eyeball this three parts glue one part water thing okay here we go let's do one two three three parts glue and one part water eyeballing it one did it work yes Stir It Up carefully now we're gonna dip our newspaper strips into the glue and stick them on our balloon one by one are we ready I think this is the messiest craftery I've ever done into the glue [Music] cover the whole strip and then stick it on thank you you want to overlap the newspaper with each other so that they all stick to each other when they dry you can go different which ways as long as you cover it up very important leave a small area empty around the end of the balloon here because at the very end we're going to need to pop our balloon later and use the hole to fill up our baseball with our candy let's get this balloon finished shall we [Music] fully covered fully covered once you're done put this in a safe place to dry you can put it in a sink you can put it on a towel you can put it on a paper plate like me ask your parent while we're waiting for this to dry I'll tell you a little bit about baseball being part of our history baseball has been part of America's wartime history during the Civil War soldiers would play baseball between battles during World Wars one and two hundreds of major league baseball players served in the U.S military and in 1942 President Franklin Roosevelt even stated how it was best for the country to keep baseball going to give people hope and happiness during that very difficult second world war okay let's check on our baseball in the making almost dry [Music] let's wait a little bit more [Music] all right is it dry is it dry it is almost dry all right once it's mostly dry let's add another layer of glue and paper but this time we're going to use our white paper strips [Music] here we go again [Music] strike two right is that what I'm on SO professional baseball league started forming in the late 1800s and the two leagues that lasted from this time were the national league and the American League by 1903 champions from both leagues were playing each other in Major League Baseball's World Series are We Done Yet [Music] and there we go there we go there we go is it looking like a baseball yet almost now once you're done you're gonna let this dry for 24 hours Yes you heard me right 24 hours a whole day and yes don't forget to clean up hi okay is your baseball dry ours is time to pop the balloon inside I'm gonna use a pair of scissors one two three there we go get this balloon out of there very carefully okay here's our baseball time to fill it with candy of course I'm gonna get candy that looks like baseballs to put inside of our baseball okay drop it right inside this is the best part is basketball inside of a baseball all right so we've got our candy in here our pinatas ready to go but we need to cover up this hole to make it like a real pinata you can do it with paper and glue or does anyone have any white tape thanks perfect so before I draw the baseball stitching on this let's talk baseball what team has won the most World Series the New York Yankees with 27 wins St Louis Cardinals come in second with 11 wins and the Boston Red Sox and Oakland Athletics are tied for third with nine wins each okay time for our red marker because we've got to draw on the classic baseball stitching should I do it should I do it you really should do this with a pencil first but I'm gonna go for it with my big red pen [Music] hard but just stick with it all right now draw little V's little V's all the way around Take Me Out to the Ball Game ta-da who plays baseball if you're a baseball fan you might know these really big names George Herman Babe Ruth played for the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees won seven World Series Championships and was once the all-time leader in home runs Jackie Robinson became the first black American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era in 1947 and he played for the Brooklyn Dodgers he won a World Series championship and was the first black American to win the national League's MVP award Hank Aaron played for the Atlanta Braves and broke all sorts of records including Babe Ruth's record for home runs baseball is America's national Pastime and is a special part of our U.S history by bringing people together during hard times and uniting us through Sports and competition we hope you had fun if you've got ideas or questions for our next craftery send them our hey crafting keep learning and keep celebrating land of the free and Home of the Brave anybody have a bat bye guys [Music] thank you for watching you know we've got more episodes right watch the whole series on our website and parents you can subscribe at prageru kids.com