To Do with Balloons
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Use as a Hat Mould
To keep the shape in your freshly washed knitted beanie or cloth hat, fit it over an inflated balloon when it dries. You can use a piece of masking tape to stop the balloon from tilting or falling over onto the ground.
Make a Party Invitation
How’s this for an imaginative invitation? Inflate a balloon, pinch off the end, but don’t tie a knot in it. Write your invitation details on the balloon with a permanent marker, making sure the ink is dry before you deflate it. Place the balloon in an envelope, and mail one out to each guest. When your guests receive it they’ll have to blow it up to see what it says.
Transport Cut Flowers
Don’t bother with awkward, water-filled plastic bags when you’re traveling with cut flowers. Simply fill up a balloon with about ½ cup of water and slip it over the cut stem ends of your flowers. Wrap a rubber band several times around the mouth of the balloon to keep it from slipping off.
Repel Unwanted Visitors
Put those old, deflated, shiny metallic balloons- the ones lying around your house from past birthday parties- to work in your garden. Cut them into vertical strips and hang them from bamboo garden stakes around your vegetables and on fruit trees to scare off invading birds, rabbits and possums.
Protect a Bandaged Finger
Bandaging a minor injury on your finger is easy, but keeping the bandage dry as you go about your business can be a different story. Here’s the secret to skipping those wet bandage changes: just slip a small balloon over your finger when doing dishes, bathing, or even simply washing your hands.
To keep the shape in your freshly washed knitted beanie or cloth hat, fit it over an inflated balloon when it dries. You can use a piece of masking tape to stop the balloon from tilting or falling over onto the ground.
Make a Party Invitation
How’s this for an imaginative invitation? Inflate a balloon, pinch off the end, but don’t tie a knot in it. Write your invitation details on the balloon with a permanent marker, making sure the ink is dry before you deflate it. Place the balloon in an envelope, and mail one out to each guest. When your guests receive it they’ll have to blow it up to see what it says.
Transport Cut Flowers
Don’t bother with awkward, water-filled plastic bags when you’re traveling with cut flowers. Simply fill up a balloon with about ½ cup of water and slip it over the cut stem ends of your flowers. Wrap a rubber band several times around the mouth of the balloon to keep it from slipping off.
Repel Unwanted Visitors
Put those old, deflated, shiny metallic balloons- the ones lying around your house from past birthday parties- to work in your garden. Cut them into vertical strips and hang them from bamboo garden stakes around your vegetables and on fruit trees to scare off invading birds, rabbits and possums.
Protect a Bandaged Finger
Bandaging a minor injury on your finger is easy, but keeping the bandage dry as you go about your business can be a different story. Here’s the secret to skipping those wet bandage changes: just slip a small balloon over your finger when doing dishes, bathing, or even simply washing your hands.
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