A Sad Farewell to Balloon Animals

If you really want to get a party going go out and get a giant bag of balloons from your local card and party store and a book from the library on different animals.

Between the endless innuendos, the made up hats and critters, the popping and the general frolicking a good time can be had by all. Unfortunately I do not have pictures of this. The book does go back to the library tomorrow so I spent some time today creating what I could. After two and half hours my results are pretty dismal. I must need more practice. I can't even imagine doing this quickly in front of screaming children and actually hope to succeed in this...we'll call it a craft. Cheap, with easy basics, but most certainly not easy.

These are the pile of my success for today. They mostly look like they were supposed to. Mostly. Here are the ones that are my favorite:

Mouse:

Bird:

Octopus with 4 balloons:

Poodle:

Of course in 2.5 hours there was much swearing and failure, often in my own measurement of the bubbles so tails and noses are much much too long. Those swans are really sad looking though. See if you can pick them out?

All the real swearing though was for all these sad dead soldiers.