I get emails every day from a couple different crafing companies. One email last week was a link to what was supposed to be kid-friendly ornament crafts. I thought it would be a good idea to make ornaments as gifts.
One craft used water balloons, glue, and string or yarn. Easy, right? Ha! I bought the water balloons and Darren blew up a bunch of them. Daniel discovered that if they had a little static, they would stick to him and the leather furniture. I guess he had never played with static and balloons? He spent 2 days rubbing the balloons on his head and sticking them to anything and everything. He kept saying he was going to "MindFlex" the balloons. MindFlex is a new game out this year where you try to control things with your mind. He thought he was doing that with the balloons!
We tried the craft on Sunday. It did make a mess. We were supposed to soak 10-inch pieces of string in a glue-water mix, squeeze off the excess glue and wrap the string around the balloons. Once the string dried, we were supposed to pop the balloon and we should have a ball made out of the string we could hang on the tree.
Only 1 of them turned out so far. The others all collapsed when the balloon was popped because the string was stuck to the balloon. I think the yarn we used was too thick. I am going to get some embroidery floss and try that.
The kids had fun, though. They had glue all over their hands!
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