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Juggling Balls

The unplugged theme this week is BALL.  I had wanted to make these juggling balls as a gift for Jake for Christmas and we never got around to it.

I decided to change up the instructions a bit. I was afraid if we just filled the balloons with rice or flour they may break. So we used raquet balls and tennins balls, rice and ballons.

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First we carefully cut slits in the raquet balls and filled them with rice.

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Then we cut the tops off the balloons and stretched them to fit over the balls. The tennis balls we just covered with balloons.

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This is were it got a little tough. If you follow the links directions we should have cut small holes in other ballons and wrapped them round the balloned balls. We couldn’t stretch the ballons with out breaking them. A few worked.

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But then I remebered we had these tiny rolls of colored masking tape.

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This worked great. Ginger preferred stickers and a crayon!

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I would post a photo of Jake juggling these new juggling balls but he is in bed with the flu! I am sure he will love them but in the mean time I’ll post this old photo and you can pretend he is juggling the new fancy balls!

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Posted in 3-D and Activities and circus and Crafts by Kristen on January 26th, 2009 at 5:55 pm.

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  1. Alissa Jan 26th 2009

    Those are great!

  2. Meg Jan 26th 2009

    I couldn’t wait for the Unplugged link, so I’m searching around on my break! Nice…I saw this tutorial too, but I foresaw just what you did…rice and or beans scattered throughout the house! Great juggling!

  3. Chrissy Jan 26th 2009

    Wow, how clever to use racquetballs instead of balloons. Love the finished product. So colorful! I’d love to feature your tute on my blog this week. May I use one of your photos for the post?

  4. Michie Jan 27th 2009

    Those look like fun! Now if only I knew how to juggle!

  5. Sheila Terry Jan 27th 2009

    WE had our girlscout troop try to make stress balls during one of our camping trips. The instruction say to inflate a balloon, pinch the bottom of the neck while having another person put a funnel into the top of the neck, fill the funnel with cornstarch then open the neck of the balloon to let the corn starch pour into the balloon. Well as you might imagine when you let go of the neck of the balloon all the air shoots up into the funnel shooting all the cornstarch everywhere. It was quite hilarious, incredibly messy and ultimately impossible to make.

  6. teachingtinytots Jan 27th 2009

    Those are super cool my oldest would love making them i’m going to bookmark this!!!

  7. Christie Jan 28th 2009

    We they very hard to squeeze?
    We made the balloon version late summer and I am still finding them everywhere. Fortunately none have broken yet. We are making them for Valentine gifts for classmates now.

  8. Kristen Jan 29th 2009

    Christie….They were a little tough to squeeze but even harder to cut a slit into!! I had a hard time poking a hole into them to get started cutting.

  9. indoor decor Jan 5th 2010

    wow,there is certain skillness need for juggling


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