1 every year on birthdays and other special hoildays ,
people in Mexico make pinatas .
pinatas are big , colourful animals made out of paper .
inside the pinatas are many sweets.
people take turns to hit the pinata with a stick . when it breaks ,
the sweets spill out onto the ground .then everybody has a lot of fun picking
them up in Mexico , pinatas are a very popular tradition .
but not many people know that the first pinatas came from china