"I thought this was the kind of piñata that had the pull strings on the bottom, but it isn't. The kids (age 4-9) each had a couple turns hitting it and finally the biggest boy (8 yrs) broke it enough for the candy to fall out. We still had to shake the candy out but our party was mostly little kids so that was ok. It says only put 2lbs of candy in but we used 4 because that's how much we had and it was fine."