How to make your own stage decor using flower shaped balloons

Ok. Now that we've learned how to make balloon sizers we can move on to more exciting stuff. This post will show you how you can make use of interesting balloon shapes such as flower balloons and turn them into stage decor. Let's get on to it shall we?

Step 1. Get two flower shaped balloons and tape their sticks together. Make sure that the two balloons are of different height.








Step 2. Inflate an 11-12 inch balloon. You can use a manual pump or an electric balloon inflator, both of which are available at Party Magic. (http://partymagic.multiply.com). Inflate two of these balloons and make sure they are of the same size when inflated.

Step 3. Tie up the two inflated balloons. You can use a simple knot in tying them up but make sure the knot is secured tightly. The tied up balloons should like the picture on the right:





Step 4. Repeat Steps 1 and 2 for another two balloons. The second pair of balloons can be of the same color, or of different color if you're going for a more colorful theme. In my case I chose a mono color theme of red balloons.

Step 5. Now that we have two pairs of tied up balloons, we need to tie both of them up. Place both pairs in a perpendicular fashion (or with the middle of both pairs crossing each other). Then, grab in one hand two balloons, one from each pair, and twist them in any direction. The middle part of the structure should now form a twist and look like the picture on the right:

Step 6. Place the flower balloons on a stick in the middle of two balloons in your structure. Now twist the two balloons that are in the middle of the stick of the flower balloons to lock it tight.

Step 7. Repeat the steps above until you fill up the whole length of the stick with these twisted balloon layers. In my case it took me three layers.

Step 8. As a finishing touch, you can also add a long twisted balloon at the top of your formation. In order to accomplish the twisted effect, wrap the uninflated long balloon around one of your arms while you ask a friend to pump it.




This structure can also serve as a centerpiece, if you have a table big enough to accommodate it.

Tadaaa! There you have it. That wasn't too hard, was it?

Til my next post,

BW