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FUN BALLOON GAME WHERE YOU RACE WITH HELIUM BALLOONS
AND A "GREAT GONDOLA"

Now you have a gondola, attach it to a balloon.

FOR MYLAR OR FOIL BALLOONS
(With "Great Gondola" package you can buy 18" Star shapes, The best Mylar shapes. Other shapes and sizes work sometimes. Latex balloons work great too, depending on your needs. See Free Guide for details.)
Attach the gondola with ribbon, string, or tape. Ribbon is best.

The amount of ballast you add depends on how much helium is in the balloon. Mylar balloons are great because you can put enough helium so the balloon will lift the gondola for a week, decreasing the ballast a little each day. This means that on the first day you can use several paper clips as ballast, with small bits of paper to finally make the balloon hover.

FOR LATEX BALLOONS
Attach the balloon by pulling the knot through the pre-punched holes in the handles.

ADD BALLAST TO GONDOLA

Use paper and/or paper clips to add weight to the gondola. Add enough weight so the balloon hovers, or hangs suspended in the air at about chest height. You want the balloon to sink slightly instead of raising. The final amounts of ballast will be small bits of paper no larger than a finger nail.

How much ballast you put in will depends on how much helium is in the balloon.

We have found that a 9" diameter is pretty close to optimum. It's impossible to get it precisely 9" so you use ballast to compensate.

Allow time to practice making it move.

Do your practicing in a room with a fairly low ceiling. Some balloons will escape and need to be pulled down. Once participants get the hang of the ballast they will not have trouble keeping the balloons down.

You can blow on it to move it, but if you practice just a little the balloon will respond very well to waving your hands in front of or beside it.

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See Videos of Balloons & Gondolas in Action
MYLAR *** LATEX *** TODDLER

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It's incredible how children go so crazy over balloons and things that float. They love those helium filled balloons you get from the store. But this GREAT GONDOLA BALLOON RACE is the FIRST real fun game which can be played with helium filled balloons. And you don’t even pop them or sit on them.

Fun Balloon Game for Schools; Science Class, Science Club, Fun for those days when you want to teach something but children's minds are elsewhere.

Fun Helium Balloon Game for toddlers. Put a mylar helium balloon and gondola on a long ribbon. Small children love to pull it around like a cooperative kitten. It lasts for days and can be refilled!

Fun helium balloon race for a party mixer. Can be played with a few or hundreds of youth or adults. Everyone gets to keep a piece of the fun.

Cub Scouts love this fun balloon game. They have fun doing electives and achievements or using it at their Blue and Gold banquet.

This fun balloon game has a free download of ideas and instructions.

It's a fun balloon game to build and decorate, then fun to race.

It's fun to be creative; this fun balloon game is ideal to express creativity.

What a fun centerpiece or decoration. Keep the helium balloon on a ribbon or it might get away.

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