how to make balloon clusters yourself?
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Assuming you are using helium balloons - Staggering the balloons is the best way, pulling and lengthening balloon strings as you have them in a bunch once you have it how you like it tie a knot near the bottom and have some sort of weight to tie the rest of the string too.  Keep in mind the ribbon length  ie if you them on the floor or table. Dollar stores have lots of neat ideas for weights and if you're creative you can find picture holders or mugs that are heavy enough and can be used again afterwards. Bunches of 7-8 balloons look nice, but it is easier to do groups of 5. Depending on how many colours you are using or have in your wedding theme. Also it is best to bunch the balloons at the site - travelling with them prebunched in a vehicle makes for a big tangled mess!
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I had to do this before, but I had to make mine out of candy. If you're allowed to do that, use candy. It's pretty easy. Just get some wire, twist them to the right shape, and use different kinds of candy on them. Once you have those up, then you'll need the wires that go across to connect them. I find that candies like twizzles and gummy worms work well. It shouldn't take that long to make. Good luck!
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no styrofoam??? aww that ruins some of the fun! i love crafty projects tho. okay you can use bakeable clay. it comes in a variety of colors and can be molded into many shapes. i would suggest working from the inside out and making it into a circle with a pie shaped cutout in it so you can see inside. basically you would make the clay figure and then bake it. you can spray it with a glossy finish and tadaa! oh, and to hang it from the ceiling? i guess you would need to screw in a metal hook beforehand. good luck!!
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Here's some ideas:\n\n1.) the balloon game: break into groups of five and have team mates link hands. Every group gets a balloon which is not allowed to touch the ground. Players must keep the balloon in the air without holding it or letting go of hands. Sounds easy? Gradually eliminate parts of the body which players are allowed to touch the balloon with (no hands, no arms, no head, no feet, ect.). Object: count the times you can hit the balloon keeping it in the air and try to score higher than the other groups.\n\n2.) Wacky relays: This one can pretty much be designed however you like. During P.E. one way my class plays is that they are in groups of six, have one exercise mat, and two scooters and they must get all players across the gym with out touching the ground. Object: work as a team to create a system in which to beat other groups in a relay.\n\n3.) Seeing eye dog game: Players find a partner whom they trust. One player is blind folded while the other is stationed at the other end of the gym or playing area. Across the feild "dangers" such as rubber cones, hula-hoops, or foam noodles are set up. Blindfolded partners start opposite their seeing partners who yell directions to them to lead them safely across the feild. Once they reach their partner they switch rolls. Also, if they touch a "danger" that partner must start again from where they began. Object: get both players to opposite sides of the feild quicker than opponents.\n\n4.) Hula-hoop game: Groups of 5 (or more) form a circle and lock hands. A hula-hoop is placed over one person's arm. Players step through the hoop and pass it around with out breaking links with their arms. Object: Get hula hoop around the circle quickest.\n\n5.) Knots: A group of 5 or more stands in a circle and locks hands with two different people in the circle (somewhat across from them). Then, by turning their bodies, stepping over or under each other they work as a group to untie their "knot" and form a circle. Object: Form a circle quicker than other groups. \n\nI'm sure these games can be adjusted to fit your needs also. Good luck! I hope this helped.
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I love crafts!  You can get a small Styrofoam disk from a store like Hobby Lobby or Michael's, whatever craft/hobby store you have in your area.  Get some colored cellophane paper and a very skinny dowel.  Cut the dowel to a lollipop stick length and stick in in the underside of the Styrofoam.  You may want to hot glue it to make it stay.  Cut some of the cellophane and wrap it around the Styrofoam and tie it with ribbon or whatever you have.  Get some gold cord or ribbon and hot glue it to the top to make a hanger.  They are very easy, you can even make giant ones to go outside!\n\nYou can also get some Crayola Model Magic and roll it into a "snake" shape.  Roll the snake starting in the middle and wrap it around and around making it as large as you want.  This will make one of those old fashioned looking lollipops that you can by at Cracker Barrel.  Stick the dowel into the stuff and let it air dry.  You can use craft paint to paint it any color you want.  Once the paint dries, brush craft glue on it and sprinkle with iridescent glitter or micro beads.  Wrap them in clear cellophane paper.  They are very pretty.  I learned about the last one from Michaels.com.  They have an interactive ornament making page.\n\nHope this helps!
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do a erupting volcano. \nAll you need is viniger and baking soda.  Red food coloring on viniger if you want it to be red lava.
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make a catapult or a trebuchet\nmake a lever\nmake a hydraulic lift ( soda bottle hosing balloon housing for balloon like a box or can, something to lift}
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Once I saw a model with spaghetti and marshmallows, but I'm not sure I'd want to go that route. It could get messy fast. If you have time, go to a craft store and see what's there. Foam/styrofoam balls and wooden dowels are a tried and true method. You could even improvise with metal coat hangers if you had to, provided you had a good way to cut them.
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pop them with tiny tweexers
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just buy filt-paper and cut it into 5 oval shapes, glue their edges, attach strings which are bundled at the bottom, attach a tiny basket filled newspaper, blow hot air into ballon with hairdryer, set basket on fire and let it fly.
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I MAKE MY OWN WITH A COMPUTER PROGRAM
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Limbo, Pinata. Musical Chairs, Pin the Tail On the Donkey, Dance contest, Pop The most Balloons, Simon Says, Toss the egg or water balloon, spoon race, 3 legged race, sack race, eating contest. You can do Arts And Crafts.... Have the kids fill sand bottles, paint bird houses or other inexpensive wooden items. If you go to your local ART & CRAFTS Store you can get many of the items at very little costs. You may also see some other ideas there. Good Luck!!!
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You can do your own? Thats pretty cool. I always liked the bubble gum mass lab. Take like two whole packages of bubbleyum and record its mass unwrapped (not the weight, your teacher should have a mass scale). Then chew all of it for about forty minutes. Don't swallow. Record the mass of the chewed blob. It'll be less even though its still the same gum. The chewing excretes certain substances out of it (some research required there). This'll actually work for a physical science or a chemistry lab. And while your classmates are working hard on their labs you'll be blowing bubbles the whole time. Hope that helps.
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we had this project last year.  i made mine out of cake and used tons of different candies for the different parts.  i had one layer of cake and then just half for the second layer so you could see everything inside.  for the nucleus i used a huge gumball.  i also used gummies, skittles, and jellybeans.
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Make a Dodecahedron. That's what I did.
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I used to make them as well..if you hold up three of your fingers.. this is the shape to put the sticks to start...Then insert the other two sticks horizontaly between the other ones. There is also a kite version..but its very hard to describe how to make it.
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You first need to decide what balloons you want in your arrangement.  I suggest a couple of mylars, a few printed 11" latex, a couple of plain 11" latex, and a few shaped latex.  The best way to arrange them is by staggering them so you have different levels of balloons rather than one huge bunch.  I've included a link below that has some bouquet arrangments.  Have a happy balloon day!